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Friday, December 22. 2006

Friday Links from the Lion-Tamer

Rape charges dropped. Now she's a "28 year-old student at North Carolina Central University." Funny, I thought she was a 28 year-old prostitute and stripper. How does a newspaper decide what to call people? By the way, I am a 37 year-old lion tamer.

Best hunting photo ever. Here

Europe's largest dinosaur found in Spain.

It's Global Orgasm Day. Do it for Gaia. Marg. Rev. Let's all make Love and Peace global: Together, we can do it! (Or alone, as the case may be.) "Hey there, cutie. Let's do Global Orgasm Day for peace together....ouch, hey - that really hurt. Hey - that wasn't peaceful at all!"

An Honest Confession of an American Coward. Pat Conroy. From his new book. A good read. Truth is good stuff. Rare.

Further thoughts about big govt. conservatism, at Ankle Biting

Give 'em an inch...Getting tougher at Gitmo. Big Lizards

Christians unwelcome in Bethlehem.

Posted by Bird Dog in Hot News & Misc. Short Subjects at 11:07 | Comments (2) | Trackbacks (0)

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I have a nephew that plays lacrosse at a NE university. I was told that right after the Duke case broke, his school reviewed all the lacrosse teams activities going back several years, looking for sexist and/or racist and/or any other inappropriate behavior.

It bugs me that his school would be so quick and so willing to tar with an investigation, what are in my somewhat biased opinion and experience, top notch young men.

And IIRC, Duke threw the lacrosse team overboard as fast as they could. I understand that if you lie with dogs you might wake up with fleas, but these young men deserve a presumption of innocence until proven guilty and I think the hasty reactions from their own school helped to deprive them of that right. Even I assumed there was something to these allegations when Duke University cancelled their whole lacrosse season.
#1 Patina on 2006-12-23 11:32 (Reply)
The whole thing smelled from day 1, if you ask me.
#2 bird dog on 2006-12-23 15:36 (Reply)

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