A good while back, former South Dakota governor and congressman Bill Janklow made headlines. Not for some controversial or groundbreaking bill however; the guy was a leadfoot and apparently boasted about his wild and aggressive driving escapades. Of course, all of that caught up with him when he mowed down and killed a motorcyclist, and was sentenced to jail time for his crime.
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iPod: Threat to national security?
So apparently now, large businesses and government agencies are freaking out over the iPod and the fact that it is, in essence, a portable hard drive. For, where there are portable mass storage devices, there is the threat of information theft. According to the British Royal Air Force:
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What an Ugly Mug [Pun Intended]
Meet Maryann Neabor. Maryann is apparently very good at mixing drinks. Apparently so much so that she managed to mask the sickly-sweet taste of antifreeze by mixing in pineapple juice and maraschino cherries… a concoction she then gave to her brother-in-law. Antifreeze is of course very toxic, and so the victim died from the poisoning.
Her defense? Well, she wasn’t trying to kill the man, per se. She just wanted to hurt him a li’l:
But Maryann Neabor only intended to hurt her relative severely enough so that he would have to move into her home – and she could then take control of his finances, said attorney Craig Mitnick.
Aww, how very sweet. (Yeah, that was another pun.)
Election day anxiety
I don’t mean to act like a conspiracy theorist, but doesn’t the discussion about election day worry anyone else? I’m seriously worried that Bush intends to use the threat of terrrorism to postpone the elections, and deeply subvert the process if he thinks he’s a little too far behind in the polls when Election Day rolls around.
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“What? She’s white? Well then, it’s okay to insult her!”
Apparently a big brouhaha erupted when California’s Education Secretary called a six-year-old a “stupid, dirty girl” during some public relations function where he was visiting a school library. The moment word of the statement got out, all kinds of activist groups began calling for his resignation. And rightfully so, I’d say! I mean, who in their right mind would go insulting kids like that?
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