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Weird Site of the Day: Googlisms

 

Hate Crimes Defined

One of my foreign law students asked me yesterday
what the meaning of "hate crime" was. I gave her a general explanation, which
I would like to augment with this succinct definition from the FBI…"Hate
[...]

Quote of the Day : Doggie DNA

”There are no witnesses, right? You’ve got to use other methods,” he said. ”The dogs went right in the chicken coop, and I found hair stuck in the splinters in the plywood . . . It was the only evidence I had unless you wanted to try footprints, but those are hard to match.”
Malcolm [...]

Its Lonely in the Big House

We all remember Sweet Susan Smith, who in 1994 went on national television
to tearfully plead for the return of her missing sons. She later admitted
strapping 3-year-old Michael and 14-month-old [...]

CIA Director Falls on Sword

Gerorge Tenet, Director of the CIA, took responsibility for slipping that bogus uranium story into a little speech the president gave to Congress….A minor oversight. I mean its not like anybody pays attention to the exact wording of the State of the Union, so I’m sure they felt they didn’t need to check [...]

North America Half Baked

OTTAWA — Doctors will be allowed to dispense medicinal marijuana
from their offices under a federal plan unveiled this week. As early as one week from now, the government will start delivering the
drug to doctors treating Canadians who have the right [...]

Fair Use on Campus?

INDIANAPOLIS — Five major publishers filed a federal lawsuit here Monday against a copy shop in Bloomington, home to Indiana University, contending that the business and its owners have flouted copyright laws and stolen from authors and publishers by illegally duplicating articles and book excerpts for course materials.
The Indianapolis suit alleges that Collegiate Copies engaged [...]

Long John Silber to Captain Chaos

Daniel Goldin, tapped as the next president of Boston University
and famous for
his "better,
faster, cheaper" philosophy, was known at
at NASA by the nickname ”Captain [...]

Sausage Won’t Sue, Accepts Appology

Sausage scandal latest in series of bizarre
mascot incidents
Wednesday
night’s incident in which Pittsburgh Pirate first baseman Randall Simon
swung a bat and hit a [...]


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