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From today’s Wall Street Journal, “Battling the Parasite in Your Pool,” comes this gem:
No product either durable or disposable is designed to contain bowel movements while under water for a long time,” says Lance Latham, a spokesman for Kimberly-Clark, which makes Huggies Little Swimmers diapers. “Little Swimmers are not intended to contain diarrhea.”

Jerry Lewis Packing Heat In Vegas

Jerry Lewis was stopped in the Las Vegas airport last week after airport screeners found a handgun in his luggage.
Reuters tells us the octogenarian funnyman was on his way to a one-night only, one-man performance in Mount Pleasant, Michigan when folks at the airport found the unload .22 pistol in his bag.
Seeing as how carrying [...]

Police Brutality

Watch as an innocent police officer attempts to do his job and is assaulted by a violent bicyclist.

positive about the downturn

In my mailbox this morning:
Below is a press release by Schroder Investment Management ($259 AUM as of March 31, 2008) regarding their semi-annual Schroder Investment Management Omnibus Survey which gages investor’s sentiment. Although more than half of U.S. investors recently surveyed in the, believe the U.S. economy is currently in a recession over 94% of [...]

Columnist Robert Novak diagnosed with Brain Tumor

Robert Novak, the Chicago-Sun Times columnist who became a household name after his participation in the outing of covert CIA operative Valerie Plame, has been diagnosed with a brain tumor.
This news comes less than a week after Novak was cited by Washington DC police for hitting a pedestrian with his car.  According to Novak, he [...]

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