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My dad sent me an email the other day with some embedded pictures of a magnificently customized pickup truck. After a little digging through Google I discovered its website, aptly named HeroesTruck.com.
UPDATE: 23 September 2006 - thanks to A. Jessee (see comment #3, below) we’ve got a fresh URL of where to find the [...]

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I just read about a teenage boy who was murdered because his skin was black. I’m not kidding or trying to dramatize the case when I write that—that’s the reason.
He was killed with an ice-axe approximately 2 feet long, the blade of which was embedded more than two inches in the victim’s skull.
The deceased [...]

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A Penn State study conducted last year, which involved roughtly 16 million long-haul trucking miles, concluded that the crash risk was double—at the 10th hour—the risk of the first hour.
A more recent Penn State study, compiled from 3 national trucking companies’ data, shows that risk triples in the 11th hour.
These results were revealed yesterday at [...]

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Okay, this is one of the lighter-side posts you’ll ever read by me but I stumbled upon a site this evening that was surprisingly addictive. It’s called the age project and, as you may’ve already guessed, it shows a picture, asks you to guess the age, and then tells you the real age as [...]

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Since the “war on terror” began, more than 200 Guantanamo-held prisoners have been set free, presumably because the facts don’t support further incarceraton.
Now our Senators have voted to deny any due process for Guantanamo-held prisoners to legally challenge their incarceration.
Several of those released from Guantanamo were released following the administrative hearings into their detention - [...]

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