06.14.08
In the competition for the world’s stupidest criminal
Not a lot to say about it. When you’re smuggling a diaperful of heroin, and the cops ask you if you’ve got anything in your diaper, maybe the smarter thing to say is, “No.”
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07.12.07
Imported food, food safety, etc.
Poll: 92 percent want ‘country of origin’ labels
You’d better believe that’s what I want. I go to the supermarket and look at Smithfield (read: giant corporation) pork, the only kind available. It is marked “natural”, which according to the label means it was grown without hormones. Excuse me? I also want my meat grown without being fed Chinese industrial waste.
In China…
Also Wednesday, the government ordered small, loosely regulated food producers to clean up their act and announced stricter rules for approving new drugs, a day after the former head of its food and drug agency was executed for accepting bribes in exchange for letting fake medicine into the domestic market.
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03.26.07
Thar she blows! 60-ton Sperm Whale explodes in Taiwan Traffic
The 56-foot-long whale had been on a truck headed for a necropsy by researchers, when gases from internal decay caused its entrails to explode in the southern city of Tainan. Also, more than 100 Tainan city residents, mostly men, have reportedly gone to see the corpse to ‘experience’ the size of its 5-foot penis.
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