Ventura may appoint nonpolitician after “blatant politicking” at Wellstone memorial Gov. Jesse Ventura, angered by what he considered blatant politicking at U.S. Sen. Paul Wellstone’s memorial ceremony Tuesday night, said Wednesday he may take it out on the Democrats by appointing…

Tanzania: Herbal experts invent traditional ‘Viagra’. What is locally known as “Bees milk” could be a potential cure for low libido in males and reproductive maladies in women. An Arumeru based herbal group of Dawa Kikatiti (DAKIKA), revealed recently that…

Protesters try to storm McDonald’s ahead of free trade talks in Ecuador Indian activists and university students tried to storm a McDonald’s restaurant Wednesday in growing protests ahead of free trade talks scheduled for Friday. The trade agreement would create…

White extremists set off bombs in Soweto President Thabo Mbeki blamed white extremists for bombs in South Africa’s sprawling Soweto township yesterday which killed one person, damaged a mosque and an Islamic school and destroyed railway connections with Johannesburg. Officials…

      Stand Down Wow, what a great idea.  Stand Down is a collaborative weblog of blogs opposed to an Iraq War. Blogs from the right as well as from left will be posting to it.  It just launched today, and PoliZeros will…

The Borg gets sneaky (again) New Office shuts out old Windows. The newest version of Microsoft’s Office Suite, code named Office 11, will only work on Windows 2000 with Service Pack 3 and Windows XP. This has upset many businesses,…

Lawyers told Harken that Bush’s sale could be illegal. This storyclaims that Bush was informed that his dealings could be considered insider trading: The memo, a copy of which was obtained by the Globe, does not say directly whether Bush…