The Orange County Register is delivering a disturbing series this week on high levels of lead content in Mexican candies. This pretty much bites for me as I like a lot of those on the list.
Well, we can't get any information out of the government on how many terrorists they've caught by humiliating the rest of us at airports, but we keep hearing stories like this one, where a woman was stopped from boarding a plane because she did not match her pre-cancer treatment ID photo. To be fair however, we continue to find out terrorists can affect our lives, like this poor guy who had his Social Security number abused by an Al-Qaeda scumbag.
Maureen Dowd unleashes the phrase of the year: Bushworld. An edited version is here, the original is linked to the New York Times (login/password: wallenfeldt/guest). The following is a series of articles on the life and death of Lt. Brandon Ratliff. If you are blind to reality and aren't too busy calling dissenters traitors and waving flags, realize that real people's lives are affected by war. This poor guy is just another example of how we forget what we do to our troops, both on and off the battlefield.
From KWTX, a story about concerning phone cards for the troops.
And in the interests of advancing the species, a group of female students at Spelman College are trying to combat the negative images of women in rap videos. I doubt anyone is listening to anything but the almight dollar in this debate, but I wish them the best. God forbid we not go through a day without some high school drop-out making millions calling his own mother a ho.
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