(Personally, I would think of becoming Catholic if more Nuns were willing to wrap their legs around me…cd) BRUSSELS (Reuters) – A Belgian nun’s acrobatic and indecorous dancing with a missionary during the Catholic World Youth Day in Germany over the weekend earned her a reprimand from her mother superior, a Belgian paper said Tuesday….
There's More Work to Do for Longer Lives and Better Health – New York Times
(right on…KG) A Conversation With Jeremiah Stamler There’s More Work to Do for Longer Lives and Better Health By JANE E. BRODY Published: August 23, 2005 Dr. Jeremiah Stamler’s name is synonymous with preventive cardiology. Since the late 1940’s, Dr. Stamler, professor emeritus and founding chairman of the department of preventive medicine at Northwestern University’s…
TIME Global Advisor: Desert Storm — Aug. 29, 2005
(Just a few days away now….getting very excited…cd) Monday, Aug. 22, 2005 In recent years, an ever-growing chorus of festivalgoers has complained about the sanitization of music and arts fests, and not without reason. At this year’s Glastonbury music festival in the U.K., for example, well-heeled attendees paid more than $10,000 each to stay in…
Everything Gets Worse With Coca-Cola
(I find this story doubly odd in the new coke commercials I have to watch every time I pay to see a movie…cd) Everything Gets Worse With Coca-Cola D. Rajeev PLACHIMADA, India, Aug 21 (IPS) – In the end it was the ”generosity” of Coca-Cola in distributing cadmium-laden waste sludge as ”free fertilizer” to the…
Naked Woman Jumps Onto Car To Stop Thief –
(Hawaii is always interesting…cd) Police searched cornfields and brush areas in Mokuleia Monday morning after a man stole a car that was parked along Farrington Highway. A woman, who was naked, jumped onto the hood of the car, trying to stop the thief, a man who was camping nearby, witnesses said. “This girl was crying…
Sufis Under Attack as Sunni Rifts Widen – New York Times
(This is a compelling reason for us to stay in Iraq. Fuck weopons of mass destruction and self protection. If we stay it should be to protect and llearn from a peaceful and wise order of Islam. Like the sufis….cd) As the twilight ritual of the Sufi Muslims reached its crescendo, the five drummers pounded…
Some Decry Glitz of Thompson Blastoff
(God Bless Johnny Depp!!!..cd) WOODY CREEK, Colo. – Hunter S. Thompson’s grand finale went off as planned: His ashes were blasted into the night sky in an explosion friends and fans agreed he would have loved. But some said the gonzo journalist would have sneered at the Hollywood trappings — champagne toasts by movie stars…
A Strange MP3 from Bernest
Bernest Ernstein sent me this MP3 and requested I put it up…he offered no explanation. I think he might have started drinking again…. Bernest fukn womb
Gambling Monkeys Compelled by Winner's High
( I don’t know if I want them to cure my gambling addiction…I sort of like it…cd) Gambling Monkeys Compelled by Winner’s High By LiveScience Staff posted: 22 August 2005 01:31 pm ET When given a choice between steady rewards and the chance for more, monkeys will gamble, a new study found. And they’ll keep…
Original Einstein Manuscript Discovered
( much to the consternation of Bush and his gang, the paper didn’t prove that the invasion of Iraq was justified….cd) AMSTERDAM, Netherlands – The original manuscript of a paper Albert Einstein published in 1925 has been found in the archives of Leiden University’s Lorentz Institute for Theoretical Physics, scholars said Saturday. The handwritten manuscript…