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11.30.06

Why the West needs Ahmadinejad (Al Jazeera)

Polonium for Sale (MSNBC) The stuff used to fatally poison the exiled Putin critic is common and easily available.

Why So Many Police Shootings with So Many Rounds Fired?
(San Jose Mercury News) "The truth is, bad police shootings and instances of police brutality do not take place in a vacuum. They ferment in negative police cultures thriving on overheated rhetoric that describes cops as ‘soldiers’ in ‘wars’ against crime and drugs."

Debut Novelist Iain Hollingshead wins "Bad Sex" Writing Prize: (UK Guardian) "[W]hich aims to skewer ‘the crude, tasteless, often perfunctory use of redundant passages of sexual description in the modern novel’. "

Britney Spears "Upskirt" Pix Takes Web by Storm (LA Times) Picture link here

Why Americans Should Never Be Allowed To Travel (via Digg.com) Actual stories provided by travel agents. Hilarious.

Celebrating Detroit’s "Seediness" (NY Times)

Seattle Mayor Pitches 'Nightlife' Licenses
(Seattle Post-Intelligencer)

Jihadis and Whores: (Asian Times) "A nation is never really beaten until it sells it women."

Barber Framed and Entrapped on Terror Charges gets No Sympathy from Columnist (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)

"Wrap Rage" Sweeping American Christmas Shoppers (Washington Post) "The Hard Truth About Hated 'Clamshell' Packaging "

Seven Million in U.S. jails, on probation or parole (AP/Yahoo News)"1 in every 32 American adults.." Yikes.

McDonald's to patent . . . THE SANDWICH?! (The Truth will Set You Free blog)