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Watch it because now I’m off to Walla Walla. Be back tomorrow.

Categories: People and Current Events

Times Online - Police find second London car bomb

Police were tonight investigating a second car bomb in London. A vehicle parked in an underground car park near Hyde Park has been found to contain a device. An area stretching from Marble Arch to Hyde Park corner had [...]

Categories: People and Current Events

AP:

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 a “terrorist.” “Farfour was martyred while defending his land,” said Sara, the teen presenter. He was killed “by the killers of children,” [...]

Categories: Entertainment

Oy.

LGF - Norway Cracks Down on Female Circumcision

Yesterday:

BBC - Egypt forbids female circumcision

Good job, Norway! Keep trying, and maybe someday you’ll be just like Senegal!

Categories: People and Current Events

The Times - Animal House Cats have a longer and stranger pedigree than dogs, and even humans

Cats are curious. Worldwide they are the most numerous pets of humans. Yet their origins were lost in mystery, if not the shrubbery – until today. Now we report that Oxford scientists have finally cracked the origin of [...]

Categories: Catblogging

The Times - Bring the Prince into the Cabinet right away Thunderer: Godfrey Barker

Now this is not just remarkable, it is royal. Public bodies sit paralysed, and the Prince of Wales acts. In the darkest part of Ayrshire lurks Dumfries House, a mid-18th-century miracle thrown up for the Marquess of Bute by Robert Adam, [...]

Categories: Art and Literature

The Times - Don’ t underestimate that pitcher of warm spit US vice-presidents should be properly selected, by Gerard Baker

Dick Cheney’s in a spot of bother again. He hasn’t shot anyone this time. It’s not his wayward aim with a 28-gauge shotgun that’s in the news, but his deadly accuracy with a nine-point legal [...]

Categories: Politics

Times Online - London car bomb ‘packed with nails and gas’

London escaped what could have been its worst terrorist attack this morning when a car bomb packed with nails, gas canisters and containers of petrol apparently failed to detonate outside a popular West End nightclub hosting a ‘ladies’ night’.

Hint: Despite this, it wasn’t [...]

Categories: War and Peace

BBC - Egypt forbids female circumcision

The new ban cancels out a provision that allowed the operation to be performed by qualified doctors in exceptional cases only. But the death of a 12-year-old girl in Upper Egypt a few days ago triggered an angry barrage of appeals from human rights groups [...]

Categories: People and Current Events

The Times - Paean of praise to the ginger-ninjas When Titian-haired Ginny Dougary wrote a choral piece celebrating redheads, it brought home to her how much ‘gingerism’ there is in England

The e-mails from the choir built up to a great clamour in the days leading up to the Overture Weekend – the grand-scale reopening [...]

Categories: Art and Literature

Opinion Journal - Who’s Really ‘Sicko’ In Canada, dogs can get a hip replacement in under a week. Humans can wait two to three years. BY DAVID GRATZER

It’s not simply that Mr. Moore is wrong. His grand tour of public health care systems misses the big story: While he prescribes socialism, market-oriented reforms are [...]

Categories: Entertainment

Today’s Shoe:

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I don’t usually like to upload comic strips, but after seeing this, I just had to:

Israellycool - Not-So-Fair Weathered Friends

If you select Israel, a list of cities is displayed, which includes: • Abu Shusha, an Arab village that has not existed since 1948 • Akbara, an [...]

Categories: Business & Media

Brown’s new cabinet. For those of you who are interested. Tessa’s gone too. Dude replacing her looks 15. Maybe he’ll screw up the Olympics a little less.

Categories: Politics

The Times - At last some sense: medicine for poppies The Taleban aren’t going to like this . . . by Rosemary Righter

At last, huh? Here’s her own newspaper September 6, 2005, and The Telegraph May 8, 2006.

Britain leads a £1-billion-a-year international programme to eradicate illicit opium production in Afghanistan by destroying farmers’ poppies and [...]

Categories: People and Current Events

FOX News - Immigration Bill Dead

I’m not celebrating yet. It’s like a bad penny, that thing. When it’s in about the same shape as our Hatshepsut over there, that’s when I’ll join the party.

Categories: Politics