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Humor Websites Darwin Awards MichaelMoore RealAstrology BillMaher.TV G.Keillor  ----------------- AwfulTruth  Captain Simian & the Space Monkeys Python  RedDwarf -->HOME  RedGreen  Troops Calvin&Hobbes Dilbert/Archive Doonesbury BetterOrWorse Frank&Ernest FoxTrot->Comic GetFuzzy OverTheHedge TomDancingBug TomTomorrow+ UserFriendly +Comics From: Cartoonbank.com Comics.com  >sitemap uComics.com  > comics ;-) ;-);-);-) ;-);-);-);-);-);-) HUMOR News ;-) 20080903 Sarah Palin - Karl Rove - Woman - Politics - 2008 Election Watch - "Sarah Palin Gender Card: We should not even be talking about [2008 Election Republican Presidential Candidate] Sarah Palin because it's sexist." [Jon Stewart on Republican's woman politics: Karl Rove, Bill O'Reilly, Dick Morris, and Nancy Pfotenhauer] -TheDailyShow.com  20080617 Obama - 2008 Election - Internet - Media - Cable Networks - Politics - Religion - Women - "Jon Stewart Mocks Media For Peddling Insane Obama Rumors." ... "On Monday night's "Daily Show," Jon Stewart mocked the media's willingness to peddle insane rumors about [2008 Election Democratic Presidential Candidate] Barack Obama — and their tendency to blame the rumor-mongering on internet sites. Calling it "Baracknophobia," Stewart showed clips of anchor and pundits from all three cable networks repeating baseless rumors (Muslim, plagiarist, sexist, etc.) about Barack Obama (and his wife Michelle)." -HuffingtonPost.com WATCH!-) Jon Stewart on "Baracknophobia" ... "The irrational fear of hope."  20080602 Dick Cheney - Humor?-( - Family - Lineage - History - Book - West Virginia - "Dick Cheney's Incest Joke Irks West Virginian Lawmakers." ... "[Republican Vice President Dick] Cheney explained that during the course of researching his family lineage for Lynne's memoir "Blue Skies, No Fences" last year, he learned there were Cheneys on both his father's and his mother's side of the family. There was a Richard Cheney on his mother's side, the vice president said." ... ""So I had Cheneys on both sides of the family and we don't even live in West Virginia," Cheney quipped." ... "[West Virginia Democratic Representative Robert Byrd later responded:] "That a man who has ascended to the seat of vice president of the United States would openly display such contempt and astounding ignorance toward his own countrymen is an insult to all Americans. Now that he or the administration he represents no longer needs their vote, Mr. Cheney apparently feels that he is now free to mock and belittle the people of West Virginia."" -By Mary Ann Akers -WashingtonPost WATCH Republican Cheney make West Virginia incest joke. 20080519 Entertainment - Political - Humor - Corporate - Government - Military - Halliburton - Blackwater - Foreign - Law - Noteworthy - Women - Journalists - Writers - US - Iraq - "John Cusack: Outsourced Warfare Represents a "Radical, Dangerous, Disgusting Ideology": An interview with Cusack about his latest film, War Inc., which takes the outsourcing of military operations to the absurd." ... "Joshua Holland: Tell me a little bit about your new project." ... "John Cusack: Well, we thought of it as an incendiary political cartoon that would hopefully put America's current imperial adventures in Iraq into a kind of a larger context. And maybe put a different lens on what privatization means; what this plan has been and what it's been like when people try to privatize the very core things it means to be a state. And what it means to spread an ideology like that across the globe." ... "There are 180,000 contractors in Iraq and about 160,000 troops, right? And if one just takes that trend to its logical conclusion, well that's where "War, Inc." is set. It takes place at a time in the near future when warfare us an entirely corporate affair." ... "Holland: As a political nerd, it struck me as a highly referential film. I felt like your character, to some extent, was loosely patterned maybe on John Perkins, who wrote Confessions of an Economic Hit Man." ... "Cusack: You know, that book came out when we were already making the film, I believe. And I know we were writing it when Naomi Klein's groundbreaking piece called "Baghdad Year Zero" came out in Harper's. She's a journalist I've always greatly admired and respected. And then as we were making the movie, she was writing the Shock Doctrine. I remember being aware of it while we were writing it. And I remember talking about it. But you know, this character was also based on [former U.S. Envoy to Iraq] Paul Bremer flying in while Baghdad [Iraq's capital] was still burning and literally ruling by Fiat. Sitting down in Saddam's old palace and banging out 50 or 60 new laws that would allow 100 percent foreign ownership of previously state-owned industry by these outside corporations. And he was running around in those Brooks Brothers suits and the military boots when he did it." ... "Holland: I thought that I saw a lot of Naomi Klein in Marisa Tomei's character." ... "Cusack: Yeah, I think it wasn't Naomi straight up, but I think it was Katrina Vanden Huevel. It was Lara Logan and it was Naomi. It was, you know, any of the great journalists out there who are women ... Christiane Amanpour." ... "Holland: Now, the film presents kind of a dystopian vision of where we're at or where we're heading -- tell me a little bit more about this central theme, this idea of outsourcing warfare to this kind of Halliburton-like mega corporation." ... "Cusack: Well, it was an ideological viral disaster -- that's what this war was. It wasn't Paul Bremer, although a lot of people would like to paint him as the fall guy. It's the entire system of thinking that is insane. The Shock doctrine does a great job chronicling what's essentially been a 35-year campaign to destroy the New Deal and privatize everything, and the use of disasters and wars to justify "shock therapy" -- to pass legislation that would never get passed in any country that wasn't reeling from trying to bury their dead or stop from being tortured or killed or trying to get water or food." ... "So I think it's really about the entire system and that entire ideology. There seems to be these companies that helped create a new market by creating a war, and then they bar the competitors from entering into the clean up. In the meantime, they've privatized the entire country, which is basically strip mining it. Basically, it's a land-grab. So not only are we looking at a murder scene, but it's the scene of an armed robbery." ... "And that's the version of democracy ... the version of a free market that we're not only supposed to worship, but into which we're also supposed to keep feeding bodies. We have to kill to feed this kind of twisted version of their free market. And [American political leaders] seem entirely unconcerned that Halliburton and Bechtel -- and Parsons and KPMG and Blackwater and the rest -- are kind of madly gorging off of this protectionist racket." ... "If you really think about outsourcing all the essential things it means to be a state, like armies, disaster relief, interrogation, border patrol -- all of these functions -- then I don't really know what's left in terms of the sovereignty of a country. I don't really know what's left." ... "So it's not even about free markets. I mean, if these [corporations] want to just go invade a country and take it over, and take their chances on the open market, that's one thing. But to use the U.S. military and our Treasury Department as their ATM to do it -- that's ... that's cause for revolt." (1, 2, 3, 4) -By Joshua Holland -AlterNet.org WATCH Movie Trailer: "WAR, INC." 20080409 Bob Schaffer - Oil - Money - Politics - Video - Colorado- 2008 Election - "'Thanks, Bob' ad spawns spoof: 'Big oil' replaces 'charter schools' in Schaffer spot." ... "An ad that features school children thanking [2008 Election Colorado] Republican Senate candidate Bob Schaffer for his commitment to charter schools has inspired a parody." ... "The spoof ad shows "oil executives" bragging about record profits and thanking Schaffer for supporting tax breaks for their industry." ... "Schaffer now works for Aspect Energy LLC." ... "[About the parody, President of ProgressNow Michael Huttner said:] "We did it with volunteers because we think Schaffer has done a lot more for big oil than he has for kids."" ... "Huttner said congressional records show Schaffer in 2001 voted for [Republican] President Bush's energy plan. Democrats called it $33 billion giveaway to the energy industry." -By Lynn Bartels -RockyMountainNews.com Watch Parody Video: "Thanks Bob - Bob Schaffer" 20080123 John Edwards - Entertainment - TV - Politics - 2008 Election - North Carolina - "John Edwards, Funny Guy." ... "Former Senator [of North Carolina and 2008 Election Democratic Presidential Candidate] John Edwards did not receive an endorsement from David Letterman on CBS’s “The Late Show” Tuesday night, but he did receive eight valuable minutes to woo voters." ... "Mr. Edwards’ jokes earned several rounds of applause from an approving audience." ... "Mr. Letterman, who had a long feud and subsequent truce with Ms. [Oprah] Winfrey, extolled the talk show’s virtues, saying: “She’s admired and she’s beloved and she’s a role model for men and women all over the world now.” With the timing of a stand-up comedian, Mr. Edwards interrupted: “You think you’re not?”" ... "The line gave Mr. Letterman an uproarious laugh and a nod of approval. “Oh my God,” the host said, “he’s a funny guy, isn’t he?”" -By Brian Stelter -NYTimes  Watch: John Edwards on the Dave Letterman Show via YouTube. Stephen Colbert - Hillary Clinton - Barack Obama - Civil Rights - History - Humor -  - Writers - Union - Entertainment - Song - Religion - Medical - University - South Carolina - Business - 2008 Election - Politics - "Colbert's Civil Rights MLK Day Writer's Strike-Busting Writerless Show — In Song." ... "[Stephen Colbert,] After paying his respects to Monday's debate and busting out a pretty darn good Tom Cruise imitation, Colbert made a segue which, in retrospect, was brilliant: Moving from [2008 Election Democratic Presidential Candidate Hillary] Clinton and [2008 Election Democratic Presidential Candidate Barack] Obama's bickering over who loved Reagan more to the evidence provided by Tom Brokaw's book, Boom! Voices of the Sixties, which, in addition to quoting Hillary Clinton discussing how [former Republican President] Ronald Reagan finessed the balance of his role "beautifully" on page 404, contains an early segment devoted to the Reverend Andrew Young, the "last surviving member of Martin Luther King's inner circle at the Southern Christian Leadership Council," and lifelong, steadfast civil rights activist. Colbert got to that — eventually — after first introducing a documentary-style segment (in the style of Brokaw's "1968" documentary, complete with soundtrack) about the Charleston Hospital workers union strike of 1969, which was settled by the young, er, Young, who negotiated with a vice president of the associated Medical University of South Carolina — "the only administrator willing to meet with Young was the newly-appointed vice-president of the medical college, who had taken up the position just days before the strike was called." The two worked behind the scenes to finally end the strike — and on the hundredth day, they came to an agreement, awarding raises to the striking workers." ... "That administrator? James Colbert — Stephen's father." -By Rachel Sklar -HuffingtonPost.com Watch Colbert Report: "A-It's All About Stephen." "B-Interview - Ambassador Andrew Young." "C-Let My People Go." 20071101 Dennis Kucinich - Ron Paul - 2008 Election - Poll - Humor - "Colbert Tops Kucinich and Paul in National Poll." ... "Colbert tops GOP [2008 Election Republican Presidential Candidate] Rep. Ron Paul, 36% to 32%, while he outpaces Democratic [2008 Election Presidential Candidate] Rep. Dennis Kucinich by 37% to Kucinich 32%. In both cases, Rasmussen found, Colbert eats into their "base."" -EditorAndPublisher.com  20070411 2008 Election - Don Imus - Media - Television - Humor - Business - Employee - Language - Censorship - Politics - Women - University - Sports - Daughters - Human Rights - PeopleIllinois - "Obama: Fire Imus: [Illinois Democratic Senator and Democratic Presidential candidate] Obama [is] First White House Contender to Call for Imus' Firing Over Racial Slur." ... "In an interview with ABC News Wednesday afternoon, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., called for the firing of talk radio host Don Imus. Obama said he would never again appear on Imus' show, which is broadcast on CBS Radio and MSNBC television." ... ""I understand MSNBC has suspended Mr. Imus," Obama told ABC News, "but I would also say that there's nobody on my staff who would still be working for me if they made a comment like that about anybody of any ethnic group. And I would hope that NBC ends up having that same attitude."" ... "Obama said he appeared once on Imus' show two years ago, and "I have no intention of returning."" ... ""He didn't just cross the line," Obama said. "He fed into some of the worst stereotypes that my two young daughters are having to deal with today in America. The notions that as young African-American women — who I hope will be athletes — that that somehow makes them less beautiful or less important. It was a degrading comment. It's one that I'm not interested in supporting."" ... "Tuesday, the basketball team held a press conference." ... ""I think that this has scarred me for life," said Matee Ajavon. "We grew up in a world where racism exists, and there's nothing we can do to change that."" ... ""What we've been seeing around this country is this constant ratcheting up of a coarsening of the culture that all of have to think about," Obama said." ... ""Insults, humor that degrades women, humor that is based in racism and racial stereotypes isn't fun," the senator told ABC News." ... ""And the notion that somehow it's cute or amusing, or a useful diversion, I think, is something that all of us have to recognize is just not the case. We all have First Amendment rights. And I am a constitutional lawyer and strongly believe in free speech, but as a culture, we really have to do some soul-searching to think about what kind of toxic information are we feeding our kids," he concluded." (1, 2) -By Jake Tapper with contributions by Clayton Sandell -ABCNEWS.com  20060330 Antonin Scalia - Photo - Journalism - Free Speech - Law - Politics - Language - Humor - People - Massachusetts - "Photographer: Herald got it right." ... "Amid a growing national controversy about the gesture U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia made Sunday at the Cathedral of the Holy Cross [Boston, Massachusettes], the freelance photographer who captured the moment has come forward with the picture." ... "“It’s inaccurate and deceptive of him to say there was no vulgarity in the moment,” said Peter Smith, the Boston University assistant photojournalism professor who made the shot." ... "Smith was working as a freelance photographer for the Boston archdiocese’s weekly newspaper at a special Mass for lawyers Sunday when a Herald reporter asked the justice how he responds to critics who might question his impartiality as a judge given his public worship." ... "“The judge paused for a second, then looked directly into my lens and said, ‘To my critics, I say, ‘Vaffanculo,’ ” punctuating the comment by flicking his right hand out from under his chin, Smith said." ... "The Italian phrase means “(expletive) you.”" (1, 2) -By Marie Szaniszlo -BostonHerald.com  Free Speech - Civil Liberties - Prison - Humor - Iowa - "Man's naughty comment on tickets lands him in front of judge." ... "A Grundy County [Iowa] man's act of civil disobedience almost landed him in jail Monday." ... "Judge Jeffrey Harris ordered him [John Gould] to pay $76.20 in fines, surcharges and court costs. The court turned down Gould's request to pay within six weeks." ... "So Gould wrote a check for the full amount. He added the words "eat (scatological term deleted)" on the memo line." ... "Harris rejected arguments by Gould's attorney, Brandon Adams, that the message was protected free speech under the 1st Amendment to the Constitution." ... "The judge sentenced Gould to five days in jail but gave him the option of purging the decision if Gould apologized to the Clerk of Court and the court." -By Jeff Reinitz -WCFCourier.com  20051222 Oregon - Kansas - Religious - Science - Education - [satire alert!-] "Passion of the Spaghetti Monster." ... "Bobby Henderson is holed up in the boonies -- Corvallis, Oregon -- hard at work on his next entry into the fray over just what students should learn about the origin of species." ... "When the Kansas Board of Education proposed balancing evolution instruction by teaching intelligent design, said to be a scientific theory that supports an "intelligent creator" of all life, the decision outraged many, including 38 Nobel laureates (.pdf)." ... "Henderson responded with a satirical letter to the Kansas board demanding equal time for a different, "equally scientific" theory of intelligent design, in which a Flying Spaghetti Monster created the world." -By Kathleen Craig -Wired  20051104 CA - Autos - Transportation - People - "Man fined for using a dummy to poach on commuter lane." ... "A 28-year-old Petaluma [California] man was pulled over Wednesday and slapped with a $351 fine for using a kickboxing dummy dressed in a Miami Dolphins windbreaker and baseball cap to poach on the commuter lane." -By Suzanne Herel -SFGate.com  20050721 -  - Karl Rove -  -  -  -  - (satire alert!-) "Karl Rove: the real story." ... "I feel it's time for me to step forward and tell what I know about Karl Rove's conversation with columnist Robert Novak in which Novak reportedly told Rove that CIA operative Valerie Plame had been responsible for her husband Joseph Wilson going to Niger to debunk the White House's claim that Saddam Hussein was shopping for uranium in Africa to make nuclear weapons and that's why America invaded Iraq, and Rove said, "Yes, I've heard that, too."" -By Garrison Keillor via -IHT.com

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20050226
• -  -  - Utah - "Underwater bike ride to launch students' eight-week crime spree." ... "Starting in the liberal state of California, they hope to evade the attention of local police officers when they ride a bike in a swimming pool and curse on a crazy-golf course." ... "In the far more conservative - and landlocked - state of Utah, they will risk the penitentiary when they hire a boat and attempt to go whale-hunting." ... ""There are thousands of stupid laws in the United States, but we are limiting ourselves to breaking about 45 of them," said Richard Smith, from Portreath, Cornwall." -By Gerard Seenan -Guardian.co.uk

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20040130
• 2004 ELECTION -  - "Politics as punch line: Young voters are turning to comics like... Jon Stewart, Dennis Miller, and Bill Maher as an alternative to the news anchors." ... "Philosophy major Joe Harper has never voted in a presidential election. He doesn't know yet whom he'll vote for this fall. He is clear on one thing, however." ... ""I'm not watching the evening news to figure it out, that's for sure," says the 21-year-old college student. His favorite sources of information about the candidates are the ones increasingly favored by the under-30 crowd, the comedy of Jon Stewart's "The Daily Show" and "anything" from Bill Maher. "I trust these guys," says Mr. Harper. "Their stuff is funnier, but it's also truer."" -By Gloria Goodale -CSMonitor 

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20031208
• -  - "Bush Whacked Online: Search Engine Trick Lists President as ‘Miserable Failure’" ... "Type in "miserable failure" on the Google Web site and the first Web link most likely to show up will take you directly to the official online biography for the current occupant of the Oval Office. (The trick will also sometimes work on Yahoo! and other search engines.)" ... ""This is not a political statement from Google, but rather a reflection of a recent Web phenomenon," says a spokesman for Google in Mountain View, Calif. "In this case, a select group of Web masters used the words [miserable failure] to describe and link to George Bush's Web site."" ... "In other words: the president has just been the latest victim of a "Google bomb," a crafty but simple manipulation of how the well-known online search engine works." (1, 2, 3)) -By Paul Eng -ABCNEWS.com

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20031201
• -  -  - Free-Speech - "Texas court to rule: Can fiction be libel?" ... "Shortly after a Texas county judge had 13-year-old Christopher Beamon jailed for five days for writing a Halloween essay about the shooting of a teacher, the Dallas Observer parodied the news item with a fictional account of its own." ... "In a satirical piece, the same judge, Darlene Whitten, was portrayed jailing a 6-year-old girl for writing a book report on Maurice Sendak's children's classic "Where The Wild Things Are," said to contain "cannibalism, fanaticism, and disorderly conduct."" -By John C. Ryan -CSMonitor 

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20030812
• -  - "To Fox, 'Fair and Balanced' Doesn't Describe Al Franken." ... "In the dry corner of business law called trademark litigation, Fox v. Franken is an unusually lively document. Along with mundane accusations of unfair competition, the lawsuit includes some especially derisive remarks about the defendant, Al Franken, the political satirist." ... "The court papers were filed in State Supreme Court in Manhattan and became public yesterday. In the lawsuit, a judge is being asked to decide an important question: who has the right to use the word "fair" and the word "balanced" together, connected by the word "and"?" ... "Lawyers for Fox News Network, part of Rupert Murdoch's media empire, News Corporation, contend that Mr. Franken should not be allowed to use those words in the title of his new book due in stores next month, "Lies, and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right" (Penguin)." -By Susan Saulny -NYTimes via -Google-News

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• -  - "Fox Sues Humor Writer for Using 'Signature' Slogan." ... "Fox News Network is suing humor writer Al Franken for trademark infringement over the phrase "fair and balanced" on the cover of his upcoming book, saying it has been "a signature slogan" of the network since 1996."-Reuters

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20030529
• -  - "Pillaging the cartoon universe:  Fred Flintstone as a mob boss! Yogi's pal BooBoo as a terrorist! Jonny Quest as the subject of a gay child-custody battle! All these outrages and more can be found on Cartoon Network's hilarious, hallucinatory "Harvey Birdman: Attorney at Law." ... "Forget for a second that we're talking about an animated short on Cartoon Network that airs around the witching hour, a time when not one kid in North America is burning the midnight oil -- at least not with his parents' permission. And forget also that we're talking about an ornithological superhero who wears a three-piece suit and litigates for a living." ... "Rather, pretend we're witnessing a bizarre discourse on popular culture, fictional systems (including their explosion) and psychosexual norms. Because it is then that Larry McCaffery's theories on metafiction and intertextuality -- the mechanisms of postmodernism outlined in his seminal work of literary criticism, "The Metafictional Muse" -- come into play. If, as McCaffery argues, "we inhabit a world of fictions and are constantly forced to develop a variety of metaphors and subjective systems to help us organize ... experience," then metafiction is the pomo tonic for our time, a Derridean (the name-dropping will end soon, I promise) playfulness that "becomes a deliberate strategy used to provoke readers to critically examine all cultural codes and established patterns of thought."" -By Scott Thill -Salon

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•  "Harvey Birdman." -CartoonNetwork's -AdultSwim.com

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20030326
• -  -  -SATIRE ALERT!-| - "Special Coverage: The War On Iraq." -TheOnion.com 

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20030218
• -  -  -  - "Liberal Radio Is Planned by Rich Group of Democrats." ... "The group, led by Sheldon and Anita Drobny, venture capitalists from Chicago who have been major campaign donors for Bill Clinton and Al Gore, is in talks with Al Franken, the comedian and author of "Rush Limbaugh Is a Big Fat Idiot." It hopes to enlist other well-known entertainers with a liberal point of view for a 14-hour, daily slate of commercial programs that would heavily rely on comedy and political satire." ... "The plan faces several business and content challenges, from finding a network of radio stations to buy the program to overcoming the poor track record of liberal radio shows. But it is the most ambitious undertaking yet to come from liberal Democrats who believe they are overshadowed in the political propaganda wars by conservative radio and television personalities." -By Jim Rutenberg -NYTimes via  -Google-News

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20020819
• "Book gangs of New York:  The biggest, baddest literary crime boss on the mean streets of Manhattan declares war." ... "It was crazy and we all knew it. But could I turn my back on the man who had rescued me from a dreary future of card catalogs at the NYPL?" -By Sam Apple and Rebecca Jacobs -Salon 

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20020813 Enron News:
• Enron 101 - macromedia flash cartoon explaining in remarkably simple, pointed, and direct terms, Enron's saga, from rise to fall. -NoMoreEnrons.com

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20020806
• "How Ned Flanders became a role model." ... "Ned Flanders, the endlessly optimistic neighbour of Homer Simpson, has emerged as an unlikely icon for churchgoers, who say they are embracing their inner nerds." -By Giles Wilson -BBC /News 

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20020725 Operation_TIPS:
• "Citizen freedom fighters: Eddie the pool man, Jake the cable guy and Madge the janitor free America from the real terrorists." ... "Citizen Corps - Working for TIPS." -By -Mark Fiore -Salon 

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20020724 Operation_TIPS:
• "Operation TIPS-TIPS: Report TIPS informants." -All-the-other-names-were-taken 

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20020719
• "Corporate Scandal Trading Cards:  Collect 'em all!" -By David Plotz -Slate 

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20020718 Operation_TIPS:
• "Overheard on the line at the Jones Household." -TruthLaidBear.com

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20020712
• "USAToday.com home page hacked:  Sarcastic headlines inserted atop popular news site." ... Some of the false headlines included: "“Another shocking ruling from the 9th Circuit Court - Pentagon Unconstitutional?”" and "“Oops says the Pope/Christianity a Sham!”" -By Bob Sullivan -MSNBC

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• "Hackers Alter USA Today's Web Site." ... One of the falsehoods included was that "the shape of the Pentagon [was] being declared unconstitutional because it too closely resembles the Jewish star of David." ... On the serious side,"at least one of the bogus stories carried a falsified Associated Press identifier." -By Jim Krane -AP via -WashingtonPost

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20020711
• "Malaysian addicts get natural high: ... from cow dung:  Faced with some of the world's strictest anti-drug laws, some addicts in Malaysia are sniffing fresh cow dung to get high." ... "Trade Minister Rafidah Aziz was quoted in The New Straits Times newspaper Wednesday as saying she wanted the government to deal with addicts who sniff cow dung, glue and even polystyrene smoke." ... "She did not elaborate." -AP via  -CNN/Asia

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