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The Informed Drinker: In the Beginning, There Was Rum
- University of Florida journalism student provokes John Kerry, gets Tasered by campus cops.
- A 10-year-old boy has woken up with a posh English accent after undergoing life-saving brain surgery.
- Betty Perry is charged with resisting arrest and failing to maintain her landscaping, both misdemeanors.
- Fed up with the threats, tired of natural disasters, Nebraska's longest-serving state senator is using his legal muscle against who he says is the culprit - God. State Sen. Ernie Chambers of Omaha sued the Almighty in Douglas County District Court last week.
- A Swedish artist displayed a cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad to a seminar in Stockholm on Tuesday despite a death threat from al-Qaida in Iraq.
- Sex Pistols have revealed details of a one off London gig.
- Telephony geek Brian Aker controls his entire home phone system using the free, open source Asterisk software which does some crazy stuff, like IM's him whenever the phone rings, sets custom MP3 hold music, and—our favorite—forwards annoying telemarketing calls to the very loud sound of monkeys screaming.
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actually, senator chambers is suing god to make a statement about frivolous lawsuits. the problem is that the lawsuit he considers ridiculous concerns a rape trial.
check it out:
http://feministing.com/archives/007749.html#trackback