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Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you know that Muntadhar al-Zeidi, a correspondent for Cairo-based Al-Baghdadia television, threw both his shoes at President Bush at a press conference in Iraq yesterday. He called Bush a “dog,” and as the shoes sailed harmlessly by Bush’s head, al-Zeidi yelled that “this is from the widows and [...]

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Apparently tired of covering the election, the war and Iceland’s emergence as a terrorist state, the “Most Trusted Name in News” is apparently also looking to become the Most Trusted Name in Not-News: From CNN: More than 10,000 people have signed an online petition urging the Army to let an Iraqi puppy come home with [...]

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The CBC reports that the International Olympic Committee has blocked Iraq from participating in the Beijing Olympics two weeks from now because “the country’s government dismissed officials in favour of its own appointees, who weren’t recognized by the IOC.” A similar ban was imposed in May — and then repealed — by FIFA, soccer’s governing [...]

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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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Sorry for the spotty posing lately — it’s been a crazy busy time work-wise, but for some reason I just can’t stop grinning. I must like my job or something. Now that you’re paying $60 to gas up your Civic, I thought you might like to know where a good chunk of your gas money [...]

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After the American-led invasion of Iraq, the army superimposed photos of Saddam Hussein and other “most wanted” Iraqi officials onto playing cards, and distributed the images to the media. As a result, the media would occasionally report the arrest of the “Ace of Diamonds,” or the “Five of Hearts,” essentially allowing the armed forces to [...]

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