Month April 2005

Over the past week, one witness after another has come forward to give dramatic, often lurid, descriptions of a rich and famous man who literally could not keep his hands off pre-teen boys.

A man trying to pay a fee using $2 bills was arrested, handcuffed and taken to jail after clerks at a Best Buy store questioned the currency’s legitimacy and called police. What if he’d try to pay with Susan Anthony…

Thousands were demonstrating today all over the country. Many areas in Baghdad were cut off today for security reasons and to accomodate the demonstrators, I suppose. There were some Sunni demonstrations but the large majority of demonstrators were actually Shia…

Police brace for Temple Mount violence Bracing for possible violence, Jerusalem police will be on the highest state of alert Sunday on the Temple Mount, barring both a group of Jewish ultra-nationalists and Arab men from entering the bitterly contested…

Jeremy Jaynes, 30, is the first person in the US to get a prison term in a spam case. He is said to have been the world’s eighth most prolific spammer.