News Bits
- Quick, get me the Pentagon. American superiority is waning in the human longevity department. Can't we just bomb somebody over this?
- A lengthy but entertaining goodbye to Factory Records founder Tony Wilson, recently deceased.
- Informative readers' Q&A with Floyd Norris, chief financial guru at the New York Times, on the current state of the U.S. economy (not suggested for feel-good reading).
- Instead of simply fading away into the annals of big hair rock, Van Halen plans to tour with David Lee Roth for the first time in decades. In an interview after the press conference, Roth was quoted as saying, "Look, I have no job, and my life is at a dead-end. Might as well....jump. Or whatever."
- Gaining weight, or have Type 2 Diabetes? Here, chew on this bag of chicken bones and call me in the morning.
- Don'tcha run that red light, Austin. Big Brother is now watching.
- Another shocking - just shocking - story of corruption from the Katrina debacle.
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