There’s not that much more to the story than the healine, really. But they sent two submarines down under the ice and planted a flag under the North Pole. So, now its theirs. Just like the moon is ours, and Virgina was England’s. I’m sure that issue will be settled from this point forth.

“Russia Plants Flag on the North Pole” [WT]

You know, there is more to the canine world than some football player’s dogfights, people. In what seems to be a submininal attempt to cash in on America’s fondness for dogs, the press has given us canine-centric stories that remind us of why we love our four-legged compatriots don’t subject them to unspeakable acts of dog-on-dog cruelty.

• That yipping dog of yours will take a rattlesnake bite meant for grandkid while you’re still applying Fixodent in the morning. [AP via Yahoo! News]
• You can sleep soundly know that the $750 that you misplaced are safely located in your pet’s intestines. You’ll only get $400 back covered in vomit and crap, but it’s better than the fees at some banks. [AP via Yahoo! News]
• If your dog is ever lost, chances are it will find its own way back to where it first was: a wooden car on a stage hoisted 20 ft in the air. [BBC News]

The World Bank, you know, owners or board of governors or whatever today voted that Paul Wolfowitz is guilty of a conflict of interest. Duh. And this New York Times headline is hilarious.

Thank you, Craigslist, from Mia.

The Supreme Court Clerk of my heart – m4w – 30
Reply to: pers-318677509@craigslist.org
Date: 2007-04-25, 3:39PM EDT

My words come to you by ‘Writ of Certiorari’ from my heart. I have an ‘Opinion’: You are without a doubt the most perfect girl on the Hill. I look forward to argument days just so I can see your smile and say hello as you pass me in the Courtroom hall. Some days you are in your Clerk uniform tails and some days you are not, but you always look stunning. When I see you across the way during arguments it is hard to concentrate on keeping the record.

Now that this session of Oral arguments is over I am bummed because I never really had the chance to talk with you. So here on Craigslist I am bringing an ‘Appeal’ to take you out to coffee sometime?

On ‘habeas review’, my heart is doing time and you have been found guilty.:0)

C.R.

This is obviously never going to happen. But we wish it would.

Here’s a light humorous report from FOX. Looks like someone in the ol’ White House decided they want to get out in front of this one. Will anyone care? We doubt it.

Admit it. You’ve used MySpace to play Spy Kid more than once. Can we blame you though? Inquiring minds want to know if any of the kids you hung out with in high school are doing any worse than you are right now. But if the 8, 4, 5, 6 and 10 o’clock news are right, then there are some creepy people using the News Corp.-owned site for…sex. Whodathunk?

Well, no more. The icky sexual predators are being blocked from stalking your little sister by MySpace’s new partnership with Sentinel Tech Holding Corp, says AP. Supposedly, the blessed union will help build a database with “names, physical descriptions and other identifiable details on sex offenders in the United States.” Not age though. So you can still pretend to be a 14-year-old or a septagarian.

The database, to be called Sentinel Safe, “will allow us to aggregate all publicly available sex offender databases into a real-time searchable form, making it easy to cross-reference and remove known registered sex offenders from the MySpace community,” Hemanshu Nigam, MySpace’s chief security officer, said in a statement.

Heads up, Maf54.

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