From contactmusic.com: Director Steven Spielberg wept at a premiere of pal Georg Lucas’ final Star Wars movie, Episode III: Revenge of the Sith. Jurassic Park film-maker Spielberg was so moved by the eagerly-awaited conclusion of the sci-fi saga, he burst into tears at its screening last week […]. But he’s unashamed by his tears, insisting fans will also cry at the end of the film, because its moving conclusion marks
May 9, 2005
What a report on the UN oil-for-food scandal might look like were it delivered by a Grey-Cheeked Mangabey
Grey-Cheeked Mangabey: ”Whoop-gobble whoop-gobble aw aw eet! Aw aw eet, eet, eet, whoop gobble, eet eet! Aw aw among increased concerns that the Volcker committee is covering up evidence that implicates UN Secretary General Kofi Annan in the scandal eet eet eet! Eet eet whoop-gobble whoop-gooble, eet eet eet!*
Captured Al-Qaeda kingpin a case of mistaken identity?
From the Sunday Times Online (UK): The capture of a supposed Al-Qaeda kingpin by Pakistani agents last week was hailed by President George W Bush as “a critical victory in the war on terrorâ€Â. According to European intelligence experts, however, Abu Faraj al-Libbi was not the terrorists’ third in command, as claimed, but a middle-ranker derided by one source as “among the flotsam and jetsam†of the organisation. […] Another
Creating new terrorists: Chimpy McHitlerburton’s smirky rodeo ride through history continues, #13
From the BBC: The US military in Iraq says it has killed 75 insurgents, including foreign fighters, in a desert region close to the border with Syria. The operation, in Anbar province, involved air and ground forces, the military said in a statement. A day earlier, the US said it had killed six insurgents and detained 54 suspects in raids in the area. […] Parliament finally approved the key defence
metrosexuals in the wild: a darwinian consideration, 1
From amusingfacts.com: After trying everything, including ocelot poop, snake shed and musk, the Dallas, Texas, zoo could not get rare ocelots to breed until they used Calvin Klein men’s cologne. Rumors that the female ocelot got drunk on Stoli Vanilla and let the spice-splashed male woo her with a lot of breezy chat about New Zealand wines and the films of Antonioni could not be confirmed—though I have a friend
