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Yesterday’s Boston Globe featured an unbelievable collection of photos of the ongoing anarchy in Athens. Nearly any one of these shots, if you took them, would be the best photo you’d ever take. The riots were sparked by the police shooting of Alexis Grigoropoulos, a 15-year-old boy who was allegedly with other youths who threw [...]

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The presidential pardon has got to be one of the strangest traditions in Washington. How exactly is justice served when an outgoing president hands out clean slates to a dozen or so convicted criminals, just because he’s a few weeks away from retirement? Why should a president have the power to bypass the courts and [...]

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After more than a year, a Nebraska state senator’s lawsuit against God has finally worked its way through the courts and been dismissed — not because it’s silly, but because the legal paperwork omitted the defendant’s home address, in violation of state law. From CNN: State Sen. Ernie Chambers of Omaha sued God [last year], [...]

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According to the U.K., that there is a map of the world’s newest terrorist state. As stock markets continue to dry-heave at the toilet of the world economy — and as financial-sector CEOs continue to dry-hump the American taxpayer — we’re discovering that British municipalities, police forces and other investors had a lot of money [...]

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If you didn’t know who he was, you’d swear he looked more like a merchant of used cars. Or plaid suits. Or kielbasa maybe. Anything but semi-automatic rifles, grenade launchers, helicopters, surface-to-air missiles, armour-piercing rockets, “ultra light” airplanes, unmanned aerial vehicles, anti-aircraft guns and armoured vehicles, with a client list that includes guerilla groups and [...]

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As of August 25, elementary and high school teachers in the Harrold school district in Texas will have the right to carry concealed handguns in the classroom. From the Fort Worth Star-Telegram: Superintendent David Thweatt said a main concern was that the small community is a 30-minute drive from the sheriff’s office, leaving students and [...]

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The city of Surat, in Gandhi’s home state of Gujarat, was in full-blown panic mode yesterday when officials found 18 live bombs scattered across town. Three more were found today. Fortunately for Surat’s 4.5 million people — and unfortunately for the inept terrorist-types who planted the bombs — they all contained a circuitry flaw that [...]

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Here’s a story I bookmarked a few months ago and was saving for a rainy day. On April 17, Pakistan’s Daily Times picked up an Agence France-Presse article about Iran’s experiments with condom and syringe vending machines targeted at drug users. “Five machines will be installed at Tehran city’s welfare shelters for addicts,” the deputy [...]

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British Columbians have been fishing human right feet out of the ocean since February — four of them altogether, all still in socks and running shoes and severed at the ankle. Two days ago the pattern changed when a left foot washed ashore. No one knows who the feet belonged to, or how they ended [...]

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Steven Jay Russell escaped from prison an astounding four times, each time on Friday the 13th. Apparently, most of his escapes were motivated by a desire to be with Philip Morris, a cellmate he fell in love with during his second stint in jail. Here’s a sample of his exploits, from Wikipedia: Russell got out [...]

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