From the AP and FOXNews U.S. authorities charged 18 people with weapons trafficking, including for an alleged scheme to smuggle grenade launchers, shoulder-fired missiles and other Russian military weapons into the country. The arrests resulted from a yearlong investigation that used a confidential informant posing as an arms trafficker selling weapons to terrorists, according to prosecutors, the FBI and police. The informant contacted the FBI after he was approached by

From Local 6.com A former North Carolina dentist accused of using syringes to squirt semen into the mouths of female patients was charged Monday with multiple misdemeanor counts of assault on a female. A Mecklenburg County grand jury indicted Dr. John Hall on seven counts of assault on a female. He was charged with assaulting six patients, including one of them twice, over an eight-month period in 2003. Hall, 44,

Billy Joel:  “Things are okay with me these days—got a good job, got a good office… I got a new wife, got a new life, and the family is fine –” Former supermodel Christie Brinkley: “– Whatever, great, I’m happy for you.  Just get down off the table now, would you?  You’re making an ass of yourself.”*

1.  jeff g, its not like the readers don’t hit steve when they feel like it. plus, jeralyn has had two posts, one dissing condi as a pres candidate (though she had the guts to put up a nice bottle of vodka over the bet) and one smacking kansas for no discernible reason except sneering.  sorry that we haven’t bowed down at her feet, but consider me underwhelmed by a

“Your eyes, they deceive you.  Go home.  There is nothing going on here but the normal, every day bustle of the Lebanese market place.”

Reuters:  “Israel is likely to agree to hand control of the West Bank city of Jericho over to the Palestinians in the coming days, Israeli television reported on Monday.” […] Israel had promised to transfer five West Bank cities to Palestinian control in advance of a Feb. 8 peace summit in Egypt. But the handover has been delayed by disagreement over Palestinian demands to remove all roadblocks in the area.

Kerouac:  “So. Anybody feel like watching ‘Dragnet’ and maybe ordering in a pizza…?”

So says Washington Post Managing Editor Philip Bennett, in an interview with China’s People’s Daily Online: I don’t think US should be the leader of the world. My job is helping my readers trying to understand what is happening now. What is happening now is very difficult to understand. The world is very complex. There are various complex forces occurring in it. I don’t think you can imagine a world