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Hey, Chinabounder ...

RavinDave — Tue, 29 Aug 2006 05:04:34 -0800

Hey, Chinabounder ... There's 14,608,512 guys outside wanna have a chat with you! A self-described Western scoundrel in Shanghai [racey text] seems to be creating the biggest backlash against foreign devils since the Boxer Rebellion. Said to be an expat English tutor, he's been seducing women and writing up lurid accounts on his blog and shocking the indignant and conservative populace. Now there's a growing effort to track him down as the drama unfolds.

Get out and vote

RavinDave — Mon, 01 Nov 2004 08:30:06 -0800

Andrew Tanenbaum never ceases to amaze me. This delightful surprise was revealed today to visitors of one of his web sites -- which (of late) probably includes 96% of MeFi.

Yeah, but Oedipus didn't start a war.

RavinDave — Thu, 28 Oct 2004 04:26:00 -0800

Former Bush ghostwriter confirms Bush had plans for Iraq in 1999. Herskowitz said that Bush expressed frustration at a lifetime as an underachiever in the shadow of an accomplished father. In aggressive military action, he saw the opportunity to emerge from his father’s shadow. The moment, Herskowitz said, came in the wake of the September 11 attacks. “Suddenly, he’s at 91 percent in the polls, and he’d barely crawled out of the bunker.”

The Magic 7

RavinDave — Sun, 29 Aug 2004 22:44:49 -0800

What's stranger than Madeline Kahn (who passed away 5 years ago) appearing in an upcoming animated feature for TV? Her co-star is John Candy, who's been dead for a decade.

New Labor Laws

RavinDave — Mon, 23 Aug 2004 01:40:45 -0800

Many of you will lose your overtime benefits today. Welcome to Monday morning!

Losing sleep over terrorism?

RavinDave — Thu, 19 Aug 2004 20:29:53 -0800

Quantum Sleeper ... If I blow $100,000+ on a bed, Sandra Bullock better be in it.

Goodbye, Bob ...

RavinDave — Fri, 30 Apr 2004 02:45:01 -0800

A glowing tribute honoring Bob Edwards on his final day as anchor at NPR's "Morning Edition" ... from the ~~bastards~~ people who ~~fired~~ reassigned him in the first place. (Sorry to start your Friday on a downer.)

"Brandon Teena lived and loved as a man. For that, she paid with her life."

RavinDave — Wed, 31 Dec 2003 00:07:33 -0800

"Brandon Teena lived and loved as a man. For that, she paid with her life." Exactly ten years ago today , John Lotter and Tom Nissen hunted down Teena Brandon on a quiet farm near Humboldt, Nebraska (just west of Falls City) and brutally murdered her along with two of her friends (Lisa Lambert and Phillip DeVine), leaving only an eight-month old baby at the bloody crime scene. They had raped her that Christmas and when she reported it to Richardson County Sheriff, Charles Laux (currently working at the Tecumseh prison, where Lotter is ironically housed), she was subjected to a humiliating line of questioning that the Nebraska State Supreme Court would later call "beyond all possible bounds of decency". No action was taken to apprehend the cowardly pair until it was too late. [more inside]

RavinDave — Fri, 07 Dec 2001 04:18:45 -0800

Is this man Jack the Ripper? [via strandmagazine.tvheaven.com] On the same day that forensic doubts about Albert DeSalvo's role as the Boston Strangler threaten to reopen that question, we had an episode of "Primetime Thursday", where crime writer Patricia Cornwell (who spent 4 million dollars in the effort) tells Diane Sawyer she has closed the book on indentifying Jack the Ripper. Although her guess is among the usual gang of suspects, she claimed to have indisputable and decisive new evidence.

RavinDave — Fri, 30 Nov 2001 07:49:20 -0800

Is Paul "Freck" Morgan getting (cough-cough) cold feet? First this "August winner" of the coveted Dork of the Day award claimed he'd cut off his feet with a homemade guillotine during a live webcast on Halloween, then he rescheduled it for today (November 30th), now he's moved it back to January 5th of next year. (And I already took a day off of work and ordered the pizza. Damn!)