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Posted by Chris on July 11, 2006 at 10:17 am.

I don’t know about you, but I’ve seen enough news for today.
Headlines from the AP:

Up to 100 feared dead in Bombay blasts
Woman killed in Boston Big Dig tunnel fall
Attacks across Iraq kill at least 47
Suicide attempt probed in NYC collapse
Mom gets 8 years for giving baby methadone
Group: Soldiers killed over rape-slaying
Political volunteer killed in Washington
Much […]

Filed under: Family, News, U.S.

Posted by Chris on February 16, 2006 at 12:51 pm.

I can’t believe that this story has gone largely unreported in the mainstream media:

The [foreigner]… was scheduled to travel… on a Delta Air Lines flight to California from New York… when she broke free… about noon, according to Tiffany Townsend of the New York Port Authority…. Port Authority Police said they dispatched […]

Filed under: News, U.S., Humor, Travel

Posted by Chris on January 27, 2006 at 9:52 am.

Fox News science correspondent, Steven Milloy, has made a career of disparaging scientific research disfavored by big business. Fox periodically wheels him out to criticize studies on global warming or secondhand smoke as “junk science.”
As it turns out, debunking the liberal science conspiracy was only his day job. He made his […]

Filed under: Politics, News, Science

Posted by Chris on November 29, 2005 at 8:34 pm.

After about a week of news isolation brought about by intensive deck-building, football viewing and turkey consumption, I caught the lead stories this morning.
Yesterday’s resignation of Randy “Duke” Cunningham (R-CA) led several newscasts. The story did not strike me as particularly newsworthy. Perhaps because recent sniping between Nick and Jessica and […]

Filed under: Politics, News, U.S., Economy