Archive for May, 2005

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On Beauty

Five
finalists of the Miss
Universe 2005 contest pose on the stage at the
final round at Impact Arena in Bangkok, Thailand Tuesday, May 31, 2005.
[…]

The Old Negro Space Program

The Shocking-but-False story of America’s Blackstronauts.
A video spoof in the style of Ken Burns.
Thanks to John D.

North Korean Seaweed Candy Makes You Wicked Smart

SEOUL (Reuters) - Candy is dandy for North Korean children trying
to grow tall, strong and smart in a country battling chronic food shortages.
North Korea has developed a candy it claims is good for children and will
[…]

Scorned Scientist Believed Behind Bizarre Weather

NEW
YORK - The Dowbrigade has learned, from his confidential but strategically
placed sources, that the current unprecedented cold,
rainy weather affecting the Boston area may not be an entirely natural
[…]

Parking Nazi Innocent of Murder of 97-yr-old Woman on Lesbian Bride Street

Those
of us who do not believe in coincidence are doomed to spending significant
time looking for the correlations in juxtapositions of events such as
the following. First came the case of the Parking […]

Terror in the Trenches of Teaching

 

   

WAGGAMAN,
        La. — A public school
teacher fed up with his students’ behavior found a way to berate them
in the context of a class assignment. The Jefferson Parish teacher
wrote and distributed a two-page essay to his fourth-grade
      students saying he hated his job,
blasting the children’s “animal”behavior, and even identifying some of
them by name.         Titled
“I Wonder Why?” […]

Terror in the Trenches of Teaching

 

   

        La. — A public school teacher fed up with his students’ behavior found
        a way to berate them in the context of a class assignment. The Jefferson
        Parish teacher wrote and distributed a two-page essay to his fourth-grade
        students saying he hated his job, blasting the children’s "animal"
        behavior, and […]

A Rainy Night in Watertown

Another Nor ‘easter lashes the recently unwrapped windows
and assaults our apartment from all sides. It’s hard not to allow the
weather to affect one’s mood, especially when it is nasty. It is sometimes
[…]

American Idle

New
Belgian identity cards have been printed with spelling mistakes in a bid
to fool forgers.
The identity cards include the country name in the three official Belgian
[…]

Rise of the Rational Republicans

As
predicted in this space as early as last November, the moderate wing
of the Republican party ("Rational Republicans") is feeling its way towards
a
"Middle Path" […]

More Legends of Ancash

On a cold rainy night in Boston, Memorial Day around the corner though Spring hasn’t sprung, let alone Summer, it is nice to remember another world, in its way as different and as fantastic as Star Wars, but in reality only 18 hours away, by plane and bus…

The legends in this collection can […]

Basketboarding

Anyone who is into Skateboarding, or Basketball, or
outrageous video, should check out this off-the-walls 60-second video
clip of what a bunch of professional boarders do when they get bored
with spins, flips and […]


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