Still recovering from a cold. Intermittent access to email during this week's travels. No time for several blog posts but here is a compilation of "interesting" news snippets, all found through this weeks Harper's Weekly Review.
Seymour Hersh has been right all along - 1, 2, 3
* I have nothing to worry. In fact, I should be in the HS records as having really good literary taste :) I read Enduring Love by Ian McEwan on the 6 hour flight over yesterday. McEwan is one of the best writers I have read -- have read Amsterdam & Black Dogs before this. Hope to read Atonement next. Btw, "Enduring Love'....what a great title. What a great pun on the word "Enduring".
Seymour Hersh has been right all along - 1, 2, 3
- Vice President Dick Cheney considered asking Israel to launch missiles at an Iranian nuclear site to kick-start a new war
- Raytheon unveiled Silent Guardian, a device that radiates unbearable pain. “You don't have time to think about it,” said an executive. “You just run.” The ray gun, Raytheon promised, will not be sold to countries with questionable human rights records, although it will be used by the United States in Iraq.
- There were reports of a restaurant in Tokyo where patrons could rape an animal before eating it. “When people have got money and done everything else,” said a lawyer who'd had the pork, “they turn toward bestiality.
- A man in St. Paul, Minnesota, faced $5,000 in fines for ripping the head off a tame duck in a hotel lobby
- a British man named Anthony Anderson was arrested for urinating on a 57-year-old woman as she lay dying of pancreatic failure. “This,” yelled Anderson as he was filmed, “is YouTube material.”13
- Contestants on “American Idol”-style talent shows, said China, must henceforth demonstrate “perseverance, maturity, confidence, and health."
- earlier (17 Aug 07): China bans 'vulgar' talent show
- The First Heartthrob, a Pop Idol-style competition, was accused of catering to "the low-grade interests of a minority" and cancelled with immediate effect.
- A day after declaring she didn't "believe in evolution, period" and was unsure of whether the world was flat, new "View" co-host Sherri Shepherd attempts to defend herself on Wednesday's show.
- FOX talk-show host Bill O'Reilly ate a meal in Harlem. “There wasn't one person in Sylvia's who was screaming, 'M-Fer, I want more iced tea,'” said O'Reilly. “You know, I mean, everybody was--it was like going into an Italian restaurant in an all-white suburb in the sense of people were sitting there, and they were ordering and having fun.
- U.S. Homeland Security was noting what some people read when they fly
- A University of Florida student was tasered after his question for Senator John Kerry went on too long. An Ocala, Florida, man accused police of tasering him after he refused to drop his Koran; police in Tustin, California, tasered a 15-year-old autistic boy; and a taser dart fired at a Vancouver, Washington, man ignited the cigarette lighter in his pocket, setting his pants on fire. Sales at Taser International were expected to reach $90 million this year.
- Twenty thousand people marched against the junta in Burma; about 400 monks were pushed away from the house where pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi is imprisoned. “Love and kindness must win over everything,” read the monks' yellow banner.
* I have nothing to worry. In fact, I should be in the HS records as having really good literary taste :) I read Enduring Love by Ian McEwan on the 6 hour flight over yesterday. McEwan is one of the best writers I have read -- have read Amsterdam & Black Dogs before this. Hope to read Atonement next. Btw, "Enduring Love'....what a great title. What a great pun on the word "Enduring".
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