Archive for June 3rd, 2007

A-Rod HR lifts Yanks

Sunday, June 3rd, 2007

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Six Soldiers Reported Killed in Iraq Attacks

Sunday, June 3rd, 2007

Six U.S. soldiers were killed in five separate attacks across Iraq on Saturday, the U.S. military said on Sunday, days after it recorded its deadliest monthly toll in more than two years.

YEAR ONE!! Harold Ramis To Write And Direct Jack Black For Judd Apatow!!

Sunday, June 3rd, 2007

Harold Ramis (“Caddyshack,” “Groundhog Day”) writes and directs. Jack Black (“School of Rock,” “Nacho Libre”) stars. Judd Apatow (“40-Year-Old Virgin,” “Knocked Up”) produces.

I hope it will be funny, but I don’t see how!

(I’m lying. These three men are comedy gods.)

I don’t know what “Year One” is about, but it scarcely matters!

Variety has more on the matter here.

Arizona, Tennessee advance to softball finals

Sunday, June 3rd, 2007

Monica Abbott led Tennessee to the Women’s College World Series finals Sunday, throwing her third straight shutout in the Lady Vols’ 3-0 victory over Northwestern.

States Crack Down Puppy Mills

Sunday, June 3rd, 2007

Bob Baker has seen the worst of the worst in his 27 years as an animal cruelty investigator.

Vlad’s two-run HR in bottom of the 9th lifts Halos

Sunday, June 3rd, 2007

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Gitmo’s Youngest Detainee Set for Hearing

Sunday, June 3rd, 2007

Gitmo detainee Omar Khadr, 15 at the time he’s accused of killing an American soldier in Afghanistan, is the facility’s youngest inmate and the first child soldier in decades to face war-crimes charges. “International law,” the Justice Department asserted in a court filing in the case last week, “does not prohibit an individual under 18 from being prosecuted for war crimes.”

Anarchy Rules New Mexico Town

Sunday, June 3rd, 2007

Reason Online: In 15 square miles of abandoned land, about 400 misfits-aging hippies, disillusioned veterans, teenage runaways-have built a community where no one cares if you smoke pot, fire your rifle all day, let your kids drive your car, or walk around naked in the desert heat. It’s a landscape of beat-up old trailers, shacks jerry-rigged from recycled materials, solar panels, little farms, greenhouses, and at least one tipi. “Where I live is the last remaining land of America that is left,” says Dreadie Jeff, another Mesa resident. “You can do what you fucking want there.”

Kanaan earns second straight Milwaukee Mile win

Sunday, June 3rd, 2007

Another dose of Milwaukee Mile misfortune for Helio Castroneves gave Tony Kanaan an IndyCar Series victory.

Dodgers rally for win, but Saito leaves with injury

Sunday, June 3rd, 2007

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Entertaining TV shows make you eat: study

Sunday, June 3rd, 2007

According to US research people eat more when they are glued to the television and the more entertaining the program, the more they eat.

John Ashcroft Called to Testify

Sunday, June 3rd, 2007

Newsweek: The Senate and House Intelligence Committees are asking former attorney general John Ashcroft to testify about a March 2004 hospital-room confrontation during which he refused to sign off on a continuation of President Bush’s warrantless eavesdropping program, according to congressional and administration sources.