Category Archives: Serious News

Unlike the oil-fueled Frankenstein that is the modern state of Iraq, the ancient empire of Babylonia and its capital city of Babylon, famed for its incomparable hanging gardens and hated by right-thinking Rastas everywhere, has a long and storied history. … Continue reading →

MALIBU, Calif. — A Los Angeles County sheriff inspects the wreckage of a rare Ferrari Enzo that crashed on the Pacific Coast Highway Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2006, in Malibu, Calif. The red Ferrari, estimated to be worth more than $1 … Continue reading →

March 14, 2006 – Robert G. Webster is one of the few bird flu experts confident enough to answer the key question: Will the avian flu switch from posing a terrible hazard to birds to becoming a real threat to … Continue reading →

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 25 (AP) – Google Inc.’s concerns that a Bush administration demand to examine millions of its users’ Internet search requests would violate privacy rights are unwarranted, the Justice Department said Friday in a court filing. from The … Continue reading →

The officials tried to assure the panel that the deal has been subject to a careful, three-month review and that all security questions were satisfied. They said no one raised an issue that would have prompted the need for a … Continue reading →

BAGHDAD, Iraq, Feb. 22 – A powerful bomb shattered the golden dome at one of Iraq’s most revered Shiite shrines on Wednesday morning, setting off a day of sectarian fury in which mobs formed across Iraq to chant for revenge … Continue reading →

On February 16, 2006, the reformist Internet daily Rooz (www.roozonline.com) reported for the first time that extremist clerics from Qom had issued what the daily called "a new fatwa," which states that "the shari’a does not forbid the use of … Continue reading →

WASHINGTON (AP) – Vice President Dick Cheney disclosed Wednesday that he has the power to declassify sensitive government information, authority that could set up a criminal defense for his former chief of staff, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby. Cheney’s disclosure comes … Continue reading →

No, not another gross photo of the Dowbrigade caught in the maw of a major metropolitan hospital. This is much more serious and significant.  Now, it is hard to shock the Dowbrigade, and after the previous material previously divulged about … Continue reading →

The New Bedford teenager wanted in last week’s attack in a gay bar gunned down a small-town police officer in Arkansas yesterday, led authorities on a highway chase, fatally shot a female passenger in his car, and then was shot … Continue reading →

Syrian demonstrators protest outside the burning Danish embassy in Damascus February 4. Hundreds of Syrian demonstrators set the Danish embassy on fire on Saturday to protest the printingof cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad. DAMASCUS (Reuters) – Furious Syrians set fire … Continue reading →

Biosafety lab in South End gets final OK BU may start construction this month The federal government gave final approval yesterday to Boston University’s plan to build a high-security research laboratory in the South End, where scientists hunting for vaccines … Continue reading →