Excuse me – you want my DNA for what?! BOSTON (Reuters) – Civil rights advocates Monday urged U.S. law enforcement officials trying to solve a 3-year-old murder case to stop asking for DNA samples from male residents of a Cape Cod community. Police in Truro, Massachusetts, are seeking genetic thumbprints from nearly 800 men who live in the quiet seaside

From ESPN.com: MLB Revamps Steroid Agreement At the end of the coming season we might be able to get a firmer handle on exactly how much impact steroids have had on the game in recent years. I’m happy about these new policies, although I’d have been happier still if they approached the World Anti-Doping Agency code mentioned in the article.

Thanks to Brandon Velarde for pointing this one out: Despite a few plays for political advantage, here and abroad, the world’s response to the Indian Ocean tsunami has been heartening. With few exceptions, the vast majority of people, countries, and religions are working together to alleviate human suffering. The big exception is radical Islamists, led by Saudi Arabia. My first

I pulled this from this morning’s Benton Communications-Related Headlines e-mailer (a free service I highly recommend). ___________________________________ GROUP FOIA’S FED OVER PROPAGANDA Following revelations that the Bush administration paid a conservative commentator and columnist to tout the president’s “No Child Left Behind” program, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics, a citizens’ watchdog group, has filed Freedom of Information Act requests with

This just came through on : Is it conceivable that Al Qaeda, as defined by President Bush as the center of a vast and well-organized international terrorist conspiracy, does not exist? To even raise the question amid all the officially inspired hysteria is heretical, especially in the context of the U.S. media’s supine acceptance of administration claims relating to national

Interesting year-in-review article from the OJR here. For way too long, it has been the mainstream media (MSM) that’s played God with the American public, telling everyone what’s news and what’s not, what to play up and what to downplay. But 2004 was the year the power started shifting, that the Little People, if you will, started to tell the

This one should be fun to watch. As part of a lawsuit filed by Apple in Santa Clara County Superior Court on Dec. 13, the company obtained a court order allowing it to issue subpoenas to AppleInsider.com, PowerPage.org and Thinksecret.com. The three Web sites published or linked to information on what they said was a future Apple audio device that

Check the third bullet point, third sentence. This is getting closer to the essence of the world we now live in – a world that Bush’s policies are making less tenable, not more….

A bad weekend, yes it was. 1. The teams I was rooting for went 0-4 this weekend. Nothing really tragic here, though. The teams I really hate are already working on their golf games this year, and the only remaining team I had an interest in, the Broncos, got more or less what I expected them to get. Still, I

I’ve been waiting for this for a few years now, although I figured the guy to do it first would be Dennis Rodman.

Interesting. I’ve always tested as an ENFP, although I’ve always been really close on the F/T scale. The J here is perhaps an artifact of simply having to be more organized in my professional life. Jung Explorer TestActualized type: ENTJ (who you are) ENTJ – “Field Marshall”. The basic driving force and need is to lead. Tend to seek a

Well, God Bless FOX for this, at least. If I were to accidentally see Mickey Rooney’s shriveled 163 year-old ass I might have to sue somebody. Of course, the way that last sentence is worded, it suggests that somebody might see Mickey Rooney’s ass intentionally, and that can’t be right, either….

Viewer sues “Fear Factor” CLEVELAND, Ohio (AP) — A viewer is suing NBC for $2.5 million, contending that he threw up because of a “Fear Factor” episode in which contestants ate rats mixed in a blender. Austin Aitken told The Associated Press he watches “Fear Factor” often and had no problem with past installments where the reality show’s participants ate

This about sums it up. Jesus would also probably bitch about voter fraud in Ohio, huh?

Holy mother of Mergatroid. CNN has canceled “Crossfire.” CNN/U.S. President Jonathan Klein sided yesterday with comedian Jon Stewart, who used a “Crossfire” appearance last fall to rip the program as partisan hackery. “I think he made a good point about the noise level of these types of shows, which does nothing to illuminate the issues of the day,” Klein said