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Thursday, May 31, 2001
i see luger
BOULDER, Colo., May 30 (UPI) -- A federal agency is developing a radar-like device that uses electromagnetic waves to peer through clothing and detect concealed weapons from up to 15 meters (50 feet) away.
QSA
"INSPIRED by James Bond films, the US Army has come up with a $1 million armoured car equipped with gadgets such as a spinning laser gun and electric door handles."
baby gap
"The Hollywood baby machine seems to be at full throttle. Despite firm denials from all spokespeople involved, "Friends" sources hint strongly that both Jennifer Aniston and Courteney Cox are in a family way."
gravel broad
lucinda williams new album reviewed
disenfranchisement
"Clearly, however, one of the major impediments to black voting was the purge of the voter rolls. Florida has one of the nation's strictest laws governing restoration of felons' voting rights. Thirty-one percent of the state's black men are barred from voting because of prior felonies."
girls will be girls
high school girls suspended for topless driveby prank.
cant these women relax?
"SOUTHERN PINES, N.C. (AP) - Brenda Corrie Kuehn will be wearing men's golf shirts and carrying 25 extra pounds in the eighth month of her pregnancy. She still expects a normal golf experience this week at the U.S. Women's Open."
double trouble
can you believe that the bush girls were busted again, this time for trying to use a fake id to buy alcohol at a restaurant? god bless those girls.
Wednesday, May 30, 2001
public affairs
"For government to represent the interests of average people, public officials have to be liberated from their dependence on private interests to finance their campaigns. Doing that means going far beyond anything dreamt of in the watered-down McCain-Feingold bill sloshing its way through Congress, which closes one loophole (soft money) while widening the hard-money pipeline. That's why a little-noticed storm going on right now in the state of Massachusetts is so important."
tv land
is there anything more surreal than the idea of a cleaned up cheech marin doing a knock off clips show called funny flubs and screwups using bush campaign speech malaprops alongside outtakes from becker?