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FBI seeks moles to spy on vegan potlucks???!!!??? Well, they better bring something good to eat.

Can this be true?  Are the Keystone Kops running the FBI???!!??

Having been vegan for many years and having attended quite a few of these things, let me tell you the conversation is about food, food, and food.  The most subversive thing I ever heard was the suggestion to try lentil soup made without garlic.  Heresy, [...]

Military types, bank robbers and stalkers, your day is about to come

Can it be true? Can invisibility cloaks really be a mere 18 months away? Crikey!

Researchers say they are rapidly closing in on new types of materials that can throw a cloak of invisibility around objects, fulfilling a fantasy that is as old as ancient myths and as young as “Star Trek” and the [...]

I guess if he was a midget, he could (literally) get away with murder.

Richard W. Thompson is a creep who molested a 14 year old girl. But in spite of all the self-serving smarminess Americans like to dish out about how much we love chidren, Richie won’t be going to jail. Instead, he’ll get a pass on years of prison time and just face 10 years [...]

Web site exposes Air Force One defenses

This is an extraordinarily peculiar story. Few would call the Bush administration open and loose with information. Oh, sure, they leak like that 10 year old condom in your wallet when there’s a political advantage to be gained, but otherwise they have raised secrecy to a new level in federal government.

The security measures [...]

Some ideas are so bizarrely, unknowingly clueless, they can only have come from a governmental agency

‘SayWA’ Slogan Branded a Clever, or Clueless, Idea

Washington state’s new tourism brand campaign, “SayWA,” has its own website, which doesn’t extol the rain forests near the coast nor the wineries east of the Cascades. Instead, the website explains the brand itself.”On the most basic level, WA=Washington,” the text reads. “So when you ‘SayWA,’ what you [...]

Labor Department edits previously published story

This one speaks for itself.

Here are some words the N.C. Department of Labor thinks the public shouldn’t see: tomatoes, landlord, Mexicans, workers.The department recently released to News & Observer staff writer Kristin Collins its files on Ag-Mart, the Florida-based tomato grower that last year incurred the N.C. Department of Agriculture’s largest-ever fine for breaking pesticide [...]