Christopher Handley is a collector in Iowa. He’s been charged with the alleged possession of obscene manga, and faces up to 20 years in prison.
He received a package containing seven manga, which was intercepted by the Postal Inspector and determined to contain obscene content. Authorities seized his collection of over 1,200 manga volumes, hundreds of [...]
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12 year-old honors student Dymond Milburn was beaten by plainclothes police officers in front of her house. The officers mistook her for a prostitute (they claimed she was wearing “tight shorts”), drove up in a van, jumped out, grabbed her, telling her “You’re a prostitute. You’re coming with me.” She resisted, yelling “daddy, daddy.” One [...]
It’s official!
Some part of me can’t believe we did this. I went down to my local polling place earlier today and voted (Obama for President, no on prop 8 ) — absolutely no line — and nearly all my 18+ year old friends also voted today. I can imagine the turnout for this election was [...]
Finally. Now we can all focus on winning the actual election.
And I think we will. Despite the prolonged primary race, the Democratic party is staying strong. Obama offers something new, whereas McCain has practically turned into Bush. I think a bit of optimism is called for.
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I’m still rather busy, but this news was important enough that I felt I needed to report it. First Kucinich, now Edwards — my two favorite candidates are out of the race.
He did not endorse either candidate, though I suspect he may have dropped out now in order to help Obama. His official position is [...]
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Well, that’s what the Stirland family wants to do, after their son Ben choked to death on one. He died after swallowing it while doing homework.
“What Ben was doing that day, chewing his pen, is what thousands of people do every day.”
“Our initial and main aim is to get the pen lids banned.”
“Our [...]
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As you’ve probably heard, Radiohead has ditched their music label and is now selling their new album, “In Rainbows,” from their website. There’s no set price. You name what you think it’s worth to you, and pay that. If you want to get it for free, you can, but if you decide to pay you [...]
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In the latest example of how the members of the executive branch of the United States consider themselves to be above the law, President Bush has commuted Scooter Libby’s 30 month prison sentence. While it isn’t quite a full pardon (yet, he’ll most likely be pardoned before Bush leaves office), it’s still a slap in [...]
According to the Associated Press:
A Mickey Mouse lookalike who preached Islamic domination on a Hamas-affiliated children’s television program was beaten to death in the show’s final episode Friday.In the final skit, “Farfour” was killed by an actor posing as an Israeli official trying to buy Farfour’s land. At one point, the mouse called the Israeli [...]
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The conservatives’ favorite Democrat, now independent, recently went on CBS’s “Face the Nation” and said:
I think we’ve got to be prepared to take aggressive military action against the Iranians to stop them from killing Americans in Iraq
This goes beyond even the Bush administration’s position on Iran. Lieberman pisses me off.
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The Church of England has threatened legal action against Sony Entertainment due to the unauthorized use of the Manchester Cathedral in the PS3 game Resistance: Fall of Man. The bishop of Manchester accused Sony of being irresponsible, noting “It is well known that Manchester has a gun crime problem.”
Free publicity ftw. Sony didn’t even have [...]
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Former White House aide I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby was found guilty on Tuesday in the CIA leak investigation. He was sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison and fined $250,000 for his role. Libby is the highest ranking White House official to be convicted in a government scandal since the Iran-Contra affair during the Regan [...]
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