A hip-hop artist was recently arrested for possession of a cache of firearms. His fellow rappers were a bit surprised when they heard that a judge denied the musician bail, ev ... Discussion
A comedian runs for president. Why? Is he fed up with the current administration's endless reasons for keeping the war going? Does he feel that his personal hero, the author o ... Discussion
No longer topping the charts with booty-shaking disco classics, the lead singer of The Sunshine Band has turned his attentions to that other American pursuit: gadgetry. Believ ... Discussion
An English jury has had a look at images of the dying Princess Spencer. The rest of us will see no such thing, but at least we heard about it. Another, stranger piece of evide ... Discussion
A republican representative from Ohio says he's going to retire from politics to pursue "several goals." Sure he's 82, but it sounds suspicious. Perhaps the real reason has s ... Discussion
A rash of hangman's knots have proven that indeed racism can still come in the pre-corporate, old-school, cracker form. Once such configuration of rope was recently found in a ... Discussion
Some militant prudes have smashed up a photo exhibit called "The History of Sex" in Sweden's Kulturen Gallery. Most of them got away, but one overzealous vandal went on to att ... Discussion
A typhoon lashes China's eastern coast (they're always lashing, these typhoons), damaging property and bringing people to what you might call a genuflecting position. Some wis ... Discussion
Explanation coming soon . . . or add your own as a comment.Stressed? Sell a sale, taxi sane Al, LAs Jena six ate LaSalles desserts. Discussion
A jury has decided that the coach of the Nicks is indeed a bad man. Or at least that he discriminated against Anucha Browne Sanders. Whether he harasses Sarah is another quest ... Discussion
Business columnists have been wondering what made Bain Capital and Huawei buy a profitless computer networking company. But the folks at Bain and Huawei took the gamble becaus ... Discussion
When a certain CIA officer revealed the author of bin Laden's latest video-taped speech, he blew his cover. He had wormed his way into the upper echelons of al-Qaeda but felt ... Discussion
The commander of Multi-National Forces in Iraq is soon to tell congress how things are going in that far off land. Opponents of the war expect to hear nothing unusual from the ... Discussion
Noriega's a man. A plan, if final: Panama's age iron.** I don't see why age iron can't be Panamanian slang for the big house. Discussion
Grab a bomb, real or prop, board a Turkish plane and demand to be taken to Iran. Sounds like a good plan for getting a little international attention and possibly killing a fe ... Discussion
Potential terrorists currently held behind bars have been debating for some time what best to plead when their cases come up. Having been caught before they had a chance to ac ... Discussion
Believe it or not, I was in Los Angeles, at the Ambassador Hotel, when Sirhan Sirhan shot Bobby Kennedy. In fact, I was one of the first to get to him after he'd been hit. I k ... Discussion
Yes, those tapes do indeed keep giving and giving. But archivists, transcribers, and the public are missing out on half of what the tapes have to offerbecause they don't play ... Discussion
So, Sara Taylor, once the White House political director, seems to know something about who sent the order to fire eight U.S. prosecutors that weren't in line with the adminis ... Discussion
