Man, political dissidence has rarely been this funny.
Folks in 2006 are trusting comedians more than journalists and their elected officials.
Don’t believe me? Read THIS, about Stephen Colbert,
THIS, about Al Franken,
And last but not least, THIS, about Jon Stewart

Instead, the Army is paying it to Halliburton. From the NY Times:
“The Army has decided to reimburse a Halliburton subsidiary for nearly all of its disputed costs on a $2.41 billion no-bid contract to deliver fuel and repair oil equipment in Iraq, even though the Pentagon’s own auditors had identified more than $250 million in [...]

Yes, Damon Wayans is actually trying to do this:
http://wired.com/news/technology/0,70259-0.html?tw=wn_index_11
- Jean Chen

Punk rock still lives!
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr/music/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1002074816
- Jean Chen

China’s got a wall, so the U.S. apparently needs one, too.
The U.S. House of Representatives overwhelming approved a proposal to build a 700-mile wall along the U.S. Mexican border. The bill goes to the Senate in March.
The wall, according to this is the brainchild of Rep. Duncan Hunter, a San Diego County [...]

Bruce Bartlett says President Bush is more of a Nixon than a Reagan — And Bartlett’s a conservative economist.
Bartlett, a former Reagan White House official, explained why on NPR’s ‘Fresh Air’ last night.
Bush is too secretive and he’s got a cavalier attitude about federalism, Bartlett says.
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It’s true, the first mac viris has been detected. So long are the days of gloating about our virus free machines to problem stricken PC users.
The worst part of the ordeal is that the virus is spread throught instant messenging programs. Looks like wasting countless hours on iChat each day is more destructive then [...]

Check out the Cook County Republicans website, specifically their tribute to Black History Month.

You want some freedom fries with your roses of the prophet Muhammad?
From Yahoo News:
“Iranians love Danish pastries, but when they look for the flaky dessert at the bakery they now have to ask for “Roses of the Prophet Muhammad.”
Bakeries across the capital were covering up their ads for Danish pastries Thursday after the confectioners’ union [...]

From Yahoo News:
“Republicans say they are pleasantly surprised that the intense media coverage of the hunting accident has shifted attention from the case of I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, Cheney’s former chief of staff. Libby is accused of misleading investigators about who leaked the identify of a CIA official.”
Click here for the full article
- Jean Chen

Check out this new reality TV show on FX. A black family lives as white people and a white family lives as black people:
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-Jean Chen

This article offers up the argument that the anger many Egyptians and a lot of Arabs in the mideast have toward their enemies stems from incredibly serious infrastructure problems at home.
According to news reports, more than 1,000 people drowned when a ferry sank in the Red Sea recently. The fact that it allegedly took seven [...]

Polytrauma. It’s a relatively new term for a method of treating wounded soldiers returning from Iraq.
There’s so many things wrong with some of these folks, and so many injuries unique to car bomb fights happening in Iraq, doctors are allegedly having to change the way they normally treat many patients.
Apparently soldiers are surviving injuries that [...]

MySpace, the social networking website with millions of users popular among teens, is the new home for online sexual predators. According to this CBSNews.com article , many teen abduction/murder cases are springing up across the country. Online predators are nothing new, sites like MySpace are only giving them new grounds to hunt on. Why? [...]

The Women’s Health Initiative, huge a federal study, reported that you’re diet may not really matter in the scheme of things. The group did a study to see if a reduced fat diet really lowered the risk of breast cancer, colon caner and heart disease in women.
The study was comprised of 49,000 people, [...]