] ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) -- Let other Girl Scouts make bird
] feeders out of Clorox bottles and glue together little
] birch-bark canoes -- Troop 34 in Alaska is learning to
] trap and skin beavers.
]
] In a practice that has angered animal rights activists,
] the girls are killing the beavers as part of a state
] flood-management program.

Girl Scouts seems a lot cooler now than it was when I was a kid...

Girl Scouts trap beaver, anger activists

] The captain of the Groton-based USS Hartford and the
] squadron commander who was aboard the submarine when it
] grounded off Sardinia last month have been removed from
] duty after the admiral in charge of submarines in the
] Mediterranean "lost confidence in their ability to
] command", a Navy spokeswoman said.

Skipper, Squadron Commander Relieved

] New London - Malfunctioning voting machines were
] shut down shortly after the polls opened Tuesday, forcing
] hundreds to vote by paper ballot and throwing into
] question whether Tuesday's election results will be
] vulnerable to a challenge in court.

Funny!!

Voting Machines Fail In New London

] PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania (Reuters) -- A man described
] by authorities as a known sexual predator was chased
] through the streets of South Philadelphia by an angry
] crowd of Catholic high school girls, who kicked and
] punched him after he was tackled by neighbors, police
] said Friday.

KICK ASS!!!!

Girls pummel man who exposed himself

Dolemite wrote:
] ] John Mayer is the best thing to happen to vanilla sex
] ] since the missionary position. Much like the regularly
] ] maligned ice cream flavor, kinkless intercourse has
] ] always been tastier than advertised. So when the
] ] musically and sexually adventurous alike dismiss Mayer's
] ] Berklee-tutored guitar and Abercrombie-swaddled purr as
] ] aural Vicodin for soccer moms and timid schoolgirls, it
] ] only goes to show how limited a palette both kinds of
] ] fetishists have. In fact, Mayer's new "Heavier Things" is
] ] just the thing to heat your bathwater on those occasions
] ] when you don't want to get your freak on -- but you're
] ] still game for seeing where some heavy petting might
] ] lead.
]
] I had to meme this because I know that nanochick is such a
] huge fan of John Mayer.

All I have to say is "Come Back To Bed". And I'm not normally into such girly music. But I'm really glad I picked up "Heavier Things".

RE: His body (of work) is a wonderland

This webpage will redirect you to a Google image search using a random search term based on the filename scheme used by many popular digital cameras. What results is the most random, random sampling of pictures.

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Why haven't I heard anything about the "anthrax scare" in a very long time? It's been irritating me that it seems like nobody's been investigating it. They never found out who it was, correct? Anyone know anything?

"Letters To The Editor:
Sometime next year, the Supreme Court of the United States will make a decision on whether the words “One nation under God” should be taken out of the Pledge of Allegiance. What's next, removing “In God we trust” from our money?"

I just -love- the headline.

Godless Nation Will Travel The Road To Hell

] SAN FRANCISCO, California (AP) -- The Navy has agreed to
] limit its peacetime use of a new sonar system designed to
] detect enemy submarines, but which may also harm marine
] mammals and fish, an environmentalist group said.

Report: Navy to limit sonar to protect whales

] BELMAR -- A donnybrook erupted at a wedding reception
] Sunday night when a guest became enraged because he
] thought his girlfriend was manhandled during the
] traditional garter belt ritual, police said yesterday.

"Mommy and Daddy, what was your wedding like?"

I caught the bouquet at my girlfriend's wedding reception. The groom's GRANDFATHER caught the garter. My boyfriend just stood there like an ass during the toss. He deliberately did NOT catch the garter because he wanted to take pictures. FUNNY!

Melee mars wedding reception