Dateline NBC apparently has been doing a series of "stings" of guys on the internet looking for teenage girls. They set up an actress in a house, then get online and wait for perverts to approach. When the guys talk to the "teenager," they get lured to a house with cameras and cops. Right, ok, seedy, but a day in the life of law enforcement, ( Read more... )

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If I ever have a dog, I want to name it Gead, so I can say "dog is Gead."

edit: or I could be an idiot. that doesn't work at all. I should delete this post, but I'm too kind and generous and offer it up for your amusement instead.

Can someone tell me why this "Cleveland Scene" story about a law student who robs banks gratutiously drops the perp's association with (and eventual presidency of) the school's Black Law Students Association several times? And is full of racial stereotypes and references, up to and including fried chicken? (No watermelon yet, but that's probably ( Read more... )

Time to start the CIA hit countdown?

Ahead of the talks, Bolivian leader Evo Morales vowed that foreign oil and gas firms would not be compensated for assets now under state control.

Every Day You Play, by Pablo Neruda (link)

Every day you play with the light of the universe ( Read more... )

like a complete moron in one of these?

bizarre craving, I know.

Edit: Bah, the tilley website doesn't want to be deep-linked? I defy it, as follows. This hat:


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for the internet age: go here

Edit: You know, I never claimed to be on the cutting edge here people.

And I don't say this lightly. Normally, I hate contemporary literature. I see it as a roughly equal mix of empty emotionalism, postmodern autoerotica, and shameless exoticification of any culture or subculture that looks "alien" in the slightest. I make a couple exceptions: Paulo Coelho is pretty good, but in English? In English, our last great ( Read more... )