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- More craptastic news from the Gulf: the cap is off the well, and the oil is gushing.
- Poor little "Meatball." Won’t someone help him escape this lonely life in a South Austin yard?
- It’s so meta. A girl tries to become a rollergirl because she’s seen the film Whip It about a girl who joins an Austin rollerderby team! It’s life imitating art via art imitating life!
- Open wide and say “indictment.” A legislator/dentist is facing charges for wrongdoing.
- In The New York Times, Stanley Fish takes on teaching in Texas.
- Of the many Houston Police officers who were videotaped participating in the March beating of a high school student, four have now been indicted.
- This story about an unusual shipment of industrial cranes to the Bayport terminal has a great photo!
- Even the after-death experience is all about the upkeep.
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