Yahoo! News - Anarchist 'Scavenger Hunt' Raises D.C. Police Ire

"Break a McDonald's window, get 300 points. Puncture a Washington D.C. police car tire to win 75 points. Score 400 points for a pie in the face of a corporate executive or World Bank delegate."

HHS Seeks Science Advice to Match Bush Views (washingtonpost.com)

"The Bush administration has begun a broad restructuring of the scientific advisory committees that guide federal policy in areas such as patients' rights and public health, eliminating some committees that were coming to conclusions at odds with the president's views and in other cases replacing members with handpicked choices."

AlterNet: Drop the Bomb: Why War Talk Is Cheap

"Bombs are tools of error as well as terror. In a conventional ground war, non-combatants can often flee in order to escape battles. They can become refugees. They can take cover until the fighting moves on. Innocents die, but infinitely fewer than in the holocaust that is unleashed by a carpet-bombing. Satellite intelligence and precision guidance systems can deliver a bomb to its target, but only an experienced soldier on the ground can tell if that bomb is hitting a war council or a wedding party. Bombs hit gas lines, blowing up entire blocks. Bombs kill whoever happens to be walking by at the time. Bombs are sloppy, random, murderous. Bombs are used by cowards."

Wal Mart has destroyed evidence in more than 75 suits brought against it.

"At any given moment, some 10,000 lawsuits are pending against Wal-Mart. Each year, it is sued roughly 4,700 times -- an average of 13 cases a day -- on matters ranging from injured customers to employee discrimination. The total makes Wal-Mart second only to the federal government as America's most frequent litigation target. "

The Memory Hole > Brutal Cop Tricks

"As a rookie, Rothmiller wondered at first why so many street toughs were willing to attack groups of cops when the odds were so clearly against them.
Then he learned the secret. Early on he saw a fellow cop pat down a suspect. "Don't move!" the cop ordered: And then almost immediately the young black man jumped and took a swing at the cop. The guy was nuts, Rothmiller though, meat on a hook. And all the cops in range tenderized him. Then Rothmiller wondered if the cop had pulled something. He did, didn't he?
"You got it, rookie," another cop explained.
The frisker, Rothmiller learned, held a pin hidden in his Sam Brown belt. Right after he told the man not to move, the cop jabbed him. So the witnesses across the street had a ll seen the detained jump and swing wildly--just moments after he was told, in no uncertain terms, not to move."

AlterNet: Devil In A Blue Dress

My latest crush, the conservative pundit Ann Coulter, has an article about her published on Alternet today. I want her sooooo bad.

"As a pundit, she is about on a par with Charles Manson, better suited to a lifelong stay in the Connecticut Home for the Criminally Insane than for the host's seat on Crossfire. Her books are filled with lies, slander and phony footnotes that are themselves lies and slanders. Her very existence as a public figure is an insult to our collective intelligence. I should really be writing about the campaign by neocon chickenhawks to intimidate Howell Raines and the New York Times on Iraq. But fortunately, John Judis and Nick Confessore have taken responsibility for that, leaving me to the less ominous but more baffling phenomenon of the bestselling Barbie-doll terrorist-apologist, who continues to be celebrated by the very media she terms "retarded" and guilty of "mass murder" while calling for their mass extinction by the likes of her ideological comrade Timothy McVeigh."

Not to mention the fact that she is way hot. See?

Jerry Falwell can dish it out, but he can't take it...

"A lawsuit Jerry Falwell filed in Virginia against an Internet critic should be dismissed because it was filed in the wrong state and has no merit, Public Citizen told a court today. It is Falwell’s second legal attempt to shut down the critic’s Web site, which parodies Falwell and his statements about the responsibility of gays for the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, among other things."

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