Monthly Archives: August 2008

World’s Fastest Man 2008

August 17, 2008 – 3:05 pm

Usain Bolt blew away his competition in the 100m sprint with an official time: 9.69 seconds. “I was having fun.” Bolt’s new world record is over a 1/10th of a second faster than Ben Johnson’s disputed world record in 1988. Usian Bolt submitted to drug tests after the race. He was clean. And judging from […]

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No Way Fay

August 17, 2008 – 3:03 pm

“It was beauty that killed the beast.” KING KONG The beauty for King Kong was Fay Wray and US meteorologists have named the 6th storm of the 2008 season in her honor. Fay has left Haiti heading north. Destination the Florida Keys. Palm Beach is expected to receive big wind heavy rains. This house has […]

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Beauty in the Eye of the Politburo

August 16, 2008 – 10:51 am

Lin Miaoke, age 9, electrified the world with her flying performance of ‘Ode to the Motheland’ during the Beijing Olympic opening ceremony. Her father noted her voice sounded a little different than normal and that’s because the actual singer, a 7 year-old girl named Yang Peiyi, didn’t fit into the Chinese Politburo’s aesthetics of the […]

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The Hunt For Thaksin

August 16, 2008 – 10:49 am

Walking away from 76 billion baht must have been a hard choice for Thaksin. That much money buys a lot of things, but the Man City owner decided that he couldn’t get a fair shake in Thai court, proving sometimes freedom is not all about money. There is little chance the couple will be vacationing […]

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Mad Dogs and Thais

August 16, 2008 – 10:48 am

A black Alsatian terrorised my suburban neighbor. DJ savaged two poodles. I had a newspaper route. DJ met me every morning and tore at my newspapers. His owner said he was harmless. The police did nothing and I hit DJ with a lead pipe wrapped in a newspaper. He was a good dog after that, […]

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