Wife frees inmate husband, kills guard in Tenn. – Yahoo! News KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (Reuters) – A former prison nurse opened fire on guards escorting her shackled husband from a Tennessee courthouse on Tuesday, killing one guard and escaping with her husband in a sport utility vehicle, authorities said. Convict George Hyatte, 34, shouted “shoot ’em”…
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Yahoo! News Photo An orang-utan plays on water skis at an event marking 100 days to the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation meeting in Pusan, southeast of Seoul, August 10, 2005. The APEC meeting will be held in Pusan in November
Clown Classes Open in Mexico City
MEXICO CITY — Tricks with water, how to make balloon animals, makeup technique — take notes, there will be a quiz. A festival offering a syllabus only a class full of clowns can truly appreciate opened this week in Mexico City, attracting magicians and jugglers to lectures with titles like “The Art of Making them…
Aug 9 is International Indigenous People's Day
(Do something nice for the indigenous people around you. If you are indigenous…try to not be too indignant. It’s your day!–cd) (I realize that the above picture is outrageous…please read the comment I’ve posted at the bottom of this story…the outrageous thing is that atrocities like that above are being committed every day in our…
Melanoma Is Epidemic. Or Is It? – New York Times
(I’ve got a new spot on my nose…maybe I should get screened?–cd) Melanoma Is Epidemic. Or Is It? – New York Times The nation is in the grip of what looks like a terrifying melanoma epidemic: melanoma is being diagnosed at more than double the rate it was in 1986, increasing faster than any other…
TallOrNot
(LOL…I am the same height as Tom Cruise and Tupac….taller than Stalin, Ghandi, and Churchill and shorter than Elvis and Erik Estrada….this is fun…cd) TallOrNot.swf (application/x-shockwave-flash Object)
Marc Cohn Shot in Denver – Should have been Walking in Memphis
(Okay, maybe the headline is crass…I just can’t resist. He didn’t die. Funny, I drove Elizabeth Vargas around not too long ago when she was doing a story on Lost. One degree of seperation….cd) Singer Marc Cohn, best known for his 1991 hit “Walking in Memphis,” was shot Sunday in Denver, according to the Denver…
Chinese Rage Fukn Up Capitalism….Go Chinese!!!!
(Now if we could only get people in the west to see the inequity of modern life. In my opinion, we are too much under the influence of our mass opiates….If there is hope, perhaps it comes from China….cd) BEIJING (Reuters) – Thousands of residents of a central Chinese city ransacked government offices, trashed cars…
Why Great Minds Can't Grasp Consciousness
At a physics meeting last October, Nobel laureate David Gross outlined 25 questions in science that he thought physics might help answer. Nestled among queries about black holes and the nature of dark matter and dark energy were questions that wandered beyond the traditional bounds of physics to venture into areas typically associated with the…
Gov. Says State May Need To Lower Academic Standards –
(Am I the only person in Hawaii that sees how incredibly stupid this is? Improve the teaching quality by paying teachers better and you don’t have to lower the standards. By lowering the standards we are lowering our common ability to succeed….I can’t tell you how mad this kind of thing makes me and it…