It’s one of my favorite times of the year, and not just because 2006 is almost over and my Detroit Lions are almost done embarrassing an entire state for yet another season, but “Literary Review” magazine has released their annual “Bad Sex in Fiction” awards.
Here’s some brief background:
The awards were set up by Auberon Waugh with [...]
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by Jim Kouri, CPP
The domestic violence rate has declined since 1993, according to a report by the US Justice Department’s Bureau of Justice Statistics.
In 1993, nonfatal intimate partner violence was 5.8 victimizations per 1,000 US residents. By 2004, the last year studied by BJS, the violence rate fell to 2.6 victimizations per 1,000 individuals.
The Justice [...]
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Dear God,
I know that You are weary of petitions but I ask that You hear me out despite my not being one of those created in Your image. After all, Your Book specifies that You look out for us animals just as You do for them (Psalm 36:6).
I am not a great [...]
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One flu over the cuckoo’s nest
Flu fearmongers must be quite depressed these days. Seasonal flu is late. Bird flu - despite all the headlines - hasn’t gained much traction among humans. And we haven’t had pandemic flu in 36 years. The good news is so good (for the rest of us, that is) that [...]
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HOORAY! THE BUTCHER OF BAGHDAD IS DEAD
See here
A great New Year present for Iraq. But no doubt the Left will now immediately make a saint of some sort out of him. They don’t care about mass murder. They never have. If they could canonize the vicious “Tookie” Williams (above), and excuse mass murderers [...]
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3 home intruders shot dead in Albuquerque: “Three men who broke into homes in the Albuquerque, N.M., area in the last month were shot dead by homeowners, and police say they hope would-be robbers take the hint. The latest incident involved Raymond Gabaldon, 40, a repeat offender, who, police say, stole a car and then [...]
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From Reuters:
Lake Superior State University’s 32nd annual List of Words Banished from the Queen’s English for Mis-Use, Over-Use and General Uselessness featured such linguistic gems as “Gitmo” for the U.S. base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba; euphemisms such as “undocumented alien;” and such Internet-inflected synonyms as “pwn,” as in the phrase “I pwn (own) you.”
I agree [...]
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Two blasts shortly after midnight follow six explosions earlier that led authorities to cancel some New Year’s celebrations
Comments (0) Filed under: VOA, VOA Asia, VOA Top Stories, VOA War and Conflict — voanews @ 12:00 am Print This Post
New year, 2007 is officially underway in most of the World
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New year, 2007 is officially underway with celebrations in many parts of the World
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