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  • Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon undergoes emergency surgery after doctors discover an increase in cranial pressure. Meanwhile, Pat Robertson has the audacity to suggest this is some sort of "divine retribution."

  • The Canadian Medical Association Journal claims that supplying winos with booze might actually be good for them and everyone else.

  • BBC lists the top 100 things we learned this year. Our favorites? "WD-40 dissolves cocaine - it has been used by a pub landlord to prevent drug-taking in his pub's toilets," "One in 10 Europeans is allegedly conceived in an Ikea bed," and "Actor James Doohan, who played Scotty, had a hand in creating the Klingon language that was used in the movies, and which Shakespeare plays were subsequently translated into."

  • Vince Young shows up on Leno, Will Ferrell offers questionable advice.

  • JK Rowling vows to "follow advice from critics on how to be a better writer," among other New Year's resolutions.

  • US Senate Democrats are preparing to grill Supreme Court nominee Alito next week, may wait till end of January for final confirmation vote.

  • Italian courts are to decide whether Jesus existed in the first place.

  • The Statesman's John Kelso shares his Rose Bowl experience.

  • Jon Stewart's set to host this year's Oscars!

  • Scientists with too much time on their hands discover the largest prime number ever - 2 to the 30,402,457th power minus 1, or roughly half the amount we've spent in Iraq.

  • Is Wal-Mart racist? Quite possibly.

  • Rest in peace, Lou Rawls.

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By Allen Y Chen in on January 6, 2006 10:07 AM 0 Comments

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  • He is a douche balloon. And it's just completely idiotic to say that a 77 year old man that had a stroke is being punished by God for dividing his land. Sharon didn't divide the land, wasn't that the UN? And if he did, why didn't God punish him a long time ago instead of waiting until now? When Pat Robertson has a stroke and dies, will that be a punishment from God for all the assholic lies he told, or will it just be his time to go to a better place?

  • If I were a Christian (or less lazy), I would feel a strange urge to get up on stage with Pat Robertson, on his fantastical show, just to punch him in the face. On live TV, if necessary. The man gives humanity, let alone Christians, a really nasty name.

    If there is an antichrist (and it isn’t someone else, ahem) it's the ever-divisive Robertson. What a douche balloon.

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