"Which way to the Ground Zero Giftshop?"

{Doyle}

-The NZ Herald reports that "The severed head of King Badu Bonsu II is going home to Ghana, around 170 years after it was hacked off in retaliation for the slayings of two Dutch emissaries whose skulls were hung from the tribal leader's throne."

-Scientists from the University of Southern Mississippi have developed a form of polyurethane that repairs itself under ultraviolet light. {sciencemag.org}

-A Queens, NY construction worker used the financial whore Bernie Madoff's prison inmate number to win $1500 in the State lottery.

-Finally, peep the American tide HERE. {vivs}

Ides of March....plus 4

In 2007 lovers in the US broke the previous baby boomer record from 1957 by giving birth to the most babies in our nation's history with 4,317,119 bundles of joy.

Also, the Obama administration pledged to stop raiding state mandated marijuana dispensaries, while focusing on busting those who use state laws to only appear legal.

Props

Click HERE to see our brown pres. {lOCAL}



Click HERE to trip out. {jesse}

PAINT THE WHITE HOUSE BLACK

CONGRATS OBAMA!!!!!!!



iN RELATED NEWS:

MASSUCHUSETTS passed Question 2: Remove the threat of arrest or jail for possessing an ounce or less of marijuana, replacing it with a $100 fine, which could be paid through the mail without lawyers or court appearances, just like a speeding ticket.

MICHIGAN passed Proposal 1: Permit terminally and seriously ill patients to use medical marijuana with their doctors' approval.

CALIFORNIA: passed Proposition 8: ELMINIATE the newly-declared right of same-sex couples to marry [boo]

{danny}

Asian Spacian Racian: India vs. China

India threw its turban into the ring as it launched an unmanned probe to the moon last Wednesday.

McCain POW film

{vivek}

mmm.....mmm........good...

This past Monday was the day that Congress rejected the $700 billion BAILOUT (it's not a rescue plan if you're saving crooks), and only one stock in the entire country increased its worth:




Campbell's Soup grew 12 cents to $36.25.

Eat your soup america, cuz we're in some shit.

HAPPY 40TH ANNIVERSARY TO THE CUBICLE!!!!

The Right Stuff

Newly reunited New Kids on the Block were right across the street from me yesterday evening ringing the closing bell at the stock exchange.

I always miss the good stuff.

{gothamist}

Sweet Dreams

Albert Hoffman, the creator of LSD (acid), died yesterday at the age of 102.

Summertime

More than a thousand barbecue fanatics in Uruguay grilled up 12 metric tonnes (26,400lbs) of beef Sunday April 13, 2008, setting a new Guinness world record while promoting the country's succulent top export.

Army personnel set up a grill nearly 1 mile long and firefighters lit six tonnes of charcoal to kick off the gargantuan cookout.

Some 1,250 people grilled the beef and about 20,000 spectators cried with joy when a Guinness judge confirmed the barbecue record had been broken.


{damncool}

Whitey Bulger

All you Herst heads will dig this (Whitey is the president of UMASS' brother):

Whitey Bulger has found himself at the center of another “mandatory kill,” though this one was ordered by a photo agency seeking to delete an image from their archives. The alert was prompted by the F.B.I.’s admission that they misidentified a German couple vacationing in Sicily as the reputed Boston crime boss and his girlfriend, Catherine Greig.

Despite no apparent problems with the law, the couple somehow evaded the F.B.I.’s global manhunt for months. Indeed, they delivered themselves to the authorities after seeing themselves on Aktenzeichen XY … ungelöst, a German show about fugitives that preceded “America’s Most Wanted.”

The online wanted poster.Mr. Bulger, 77, is wanted for 18 counts of murder and other charges, has a $1,000,000 bounty on his head and the expectation that he is “armed and extremely dangerous,” according to the F.B.I.’s news release (pdf).
Doubts about the image surfaced immediately after it was unveiled with great fanfare last September. “This new picture doesn’t look anything like Whitey Bulger,” a blogger at Boston Magazine wrote. “This guy had more hair on his head than Bulger did in ‘94.”

{nytimes.com}

History 297D

I was just up in Northampton, MA a few weeks ago to see my friend's band, NBFB, open for one of the few bands that get me dancing, the New Deal. It was funny to be the older kids at the show as I honestly felt taller than everyone else. It's not that I was better than the young-uns, it was just that I felt old.

In related news UMASS just announced they have a class on the Greatful Dead: History 297D -How Does the Song Go? The Grateful Dead as a Window into American Culture. Good ol ZooMass, keeping the dream alive. I can't wait till there's a college class on my exploits: Theology 36C- Do You Know Who I Used To Be?


{bernard}

Save the cheerleader

Cheerleading actually got started in New Jersey, when the Tigers of Princeton University decided the best way to distract their opponents -- the Rutgers University Scarlet Knights -- would be by yelling what they called "The Scarer," that is, blood-curdling shouts anytime one of the Rutgers faithful ran with the ball.

Of course, yelling while playing football makes it difficult to concentrate, so Princeton lost that first game, way back in 1869, by a count of 6-4. The next time out, they figured a better way, which was to have supporters stand on the sidelines and yell at the Rutgers players to distract them. This time, it worked, and Princeton ended up winning, part of an ongoing feud between the two schools that goes on to this day.

{source unknown}

Repeal Day

So today is the day that the United States government did away with Prohibition back in 1933. So drink away and remember alcohol loves you more than Jesus.

The Manhattan Diet