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Oh, to be a rat

Workers had to be evacuated when tradgedy struck Kentucky recently. About 1,500 gallons (GALLONS!) of Southern Comfort was spilled into the Louisville sewer system on…


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Representative James Traficant testified before the House Ethics Committee today. You may recall that Traficant defeated accusations of racketeering and bribery in 1983 by claiming…


Practice makes Perfect

It seems as though our friends in Florida have been practicing that whole voting thing. In a variation on the complicated “point-and-click” procedure, residents took…


Blue Light Special

DrKoop.com, founded by Dartmouth alumnus, former surgeon general and Koop Institute founder and Senior Scholar(Chick) Everett Koop has been sold to vitamin peddler Vitacost for…


“Attack of the Cyber-Terror Studies”

The Reg on academia’s over-hyping of cyber-terror threats: Created at Dartmouth College, the report Law Enforcement Tools and Technologies for Investigating Cyber Attacks (reg req’d)…


More Guns, Less Crime

Crime is on the rise in Britain, despite strong regulations against firearms. While the chances of having your house burglarized may be down, your chances…


The Immutable Laws of Dowd

This came out a little over a month ago, but is still worth reading (and when it stops being so, we’ll throw a party). A…


We’re #1

Dartmouth’s Stephen Brooks and William Wohlforth in Foreign Affairs: “If today’s American primacy does not constitute unipolarity, then nothing ever will. The only things left…


70 Virgin Strippers

Terrorists “having a good time” at San Antonio’s XTC Cabaret threaten to blow up military bases. Never fear though, while I can tell you the…