Archives for the 'different' Category

Hollywood Kills Giraffe

Published on 15 Sep 2009 at 2:00 pm. 4 Comments.
Filed under different, do-goodism.

That’s what PETA is saying, anyway. Boston Herald: 

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Lively Battle

Published on 4 Jun 2008 at 10:11 am. No Comments.
Filed under different.

Alex Beam, one of my favorite Globies, with ”Grave Schism on the Death Beat,” re on the life-and-death struggle for power in a professional obit society. 

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Sweetness, Not Light

Published on 10 Apr 2008 at 10:43 pm. 5 Comments.
Filed under crime, different.

For starters, I don’t want any cruel jokes about the fact that this woman is charged with knocking over a candy store: 

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Affair of the Heart

Published on 6 Apr 2008 at 8:12 pm. 3 Comments.
Filed under different.

1995, 33-year-old man kills himself. Dead man’s heart goes into 56-year-old man’s chest. Rejuvenated recipient meets, woos, marries donor’s 28-year-old widow. Fast forward to 2008. Transplanted heart recipient kills himself. Heart buried. Foul play not suspected. Weird but reportedly true. Beaufort Gazette: 

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Legless in Afghanistan

Published on 27 Jan 2008 at 11:18 am. No Comments.
Filed under Afghanistan, different, military.

Diferent kind of war story for a different kind of war. Blackfive: Hot pursuit of a pedally challenged Taliban.

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Trick No Treat

Published on 31 Oct 2007 at 8:43 am. 2 Comments.
Filed under different.

Lawmaker gets early start on Halloween:  

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Window Ghosts

Published on 14 Aug 2007 at 9:04 am. 2 Comments.
Filed under asia, different, impending doom!.

And other tales of rampaging elephants, erupting volcanos and ex-wives at the Jungle Trader.  Put on your pith helmet and hack your way through the underbrush into this world of strange and exotic wonders.  Be watchful, sleep with one eye open. You may not be young or male enough to have to worry about the [...]

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Chimp Rights

Published on 1 Jun 2007 at 1:40 am. 2 Comments.
Filed under different, science.

As recently argued, examined over at John Hawks’ anthroblog.

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Take a Right at Hollywood

Published on 26 Apr 2007 at 7:27 pm. 4 Comments.
Filed under different.

The best thing about being a conservative in Hollywood? You don’t have to lie.  Via Neptunus Lex, who enjoys being arrested and has a great blog.

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Insulting Upward

Published on 10 Mar 2007 at 5:49 pm. 1 Comment.
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Ha!  Althouse on low-blow strategies for self-elevation.   

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Bad Spirits

Published on 10 Mar 2007 at 12:19 am. 7 Comments.
Filed under Uncategorized, different.

Mayan priests to purify ancient sacred site after Bush visit.
Those priests don’t know what they’re in for, because that Bush is wicked bad.  Very very bad spirits. Es El Diablo! 

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Unaborted

Published on 9 Mar 2007 at 12:03 am. 5 Comments.
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Ala, sagacious blonde that she is, raises a couple of good points about the lawsuit vs. abortionists who botched one.

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Wired Iraqi w/Magnet Where Sun Don’t Shine

Published on 7 Mar 2007 at 9:38 am. 8 Comments.
Filed under Uncategorized, different.

… is being questioned by Immigration after he was stopped at LAX and these disturbing facts were noted.  America is a free country, but I think attempting to board an airplane with wires on your person and a magnet up your bum while behaving erratically might be grounds for inviting this gentleman to exercise his [...]

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Special Delivery

Published on 4 Mar 2007 at 10:26 pm. 5 Comments.
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“My husband started to unwrap one and said, ‘This is strange, it looks like a liver,’ ” Ludivine Larmande said. “He started the second one, but stopped as soon as we saw the ear.”
Ugh. From China.  I’m guessing it’s only the highest quality political prisoner, thief or scapegoated corrupt official.  Heads up … apparently there are another [...]

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