Day August 23, 2003

ELFs strike The Earth Liberation Front took credit for a series of attacks on car dealerships in Los Angeles that targeted SUVs and Hummers causing at least $1 million in damage at one dealership where a parts warehouse and 20 Hummers were…

Record heatwave closes Mont Blanc to tourists No new snow, the glaciers are melting, leaving once navigatible trails too dangerous to use, so Mont Blanc is now closed for general use. Dr Jonathan Bamber, reader in glaciology at Bristol University,…

Things Not to Do From Not Genuises Mike Gordon, bassist for Phish, has very bad decision making ability. Lets give Mike a checklist of things not to do in the future.1) Do not take a liking to a 9 year…

Fox suit against Franken “wholly without merit” Saying “This is an easy case,” a federal judge ruled Friday against Fox News in its lawsuit asserting that a book by liberal satirist Al Franken violates its trademarked slogan, “fair and balanced.”…

Alabama’s golden calf From D.J. Mitchell Down in Montgomery, they’ve got their own problems.  Chief Justice Roy Moore was suspended for refusing to remove a 5,300-pound monument to the Ten Commandments from the courtyard of a government building.  Moore’s reasoning:…