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"Do you have change for a ton?" "On Thursday's Daily Show, Jon Stewart lampooned former US Iraq consul Paul Bremer -- who somehow managed to lose $8.8 billion of $12 billion in cash. Said Democrat Henry Waxman (D-CA) of the US effort to send so much money to Iraq, "To do that, the Federal Reserve ( Read more... )

The Job Interview Questions Database for Job-Seekers. There are 109 questions, divided by category.

The Free Wifi Spots in Airports database.

Internet users share many common interests, but men are heavier consumers of news, stocks, sports and pornography, while more women look for health and religious guidance. (Newsday has the best headline ( Read more... )

The London Review of Books has an essay up from author Eliot Weinberger: “What I heard about Iraq in 2005.” The essay details truths, distortions and half-truths through quotes from the major players in the war and is a follow-up to his essay “What I Heard About Iraq” first published by the LRB in February. The first essay has since been made ( Read more... )

“C is for Cookie”

jinwicked creates the comic “Crap I Drew On My Lunch Break” Very cool. :)

kiji_kat points out “The Crying Game: Despite a celebrated history, Native American Transgenders struggle in the modern world.”

Time: Best of 2005: Television. (BSG made #1: “Most of you probably think this entry has got to be a joke. The rest of you have actually ( Read more... )

Under pressure from an impending Supreme Court case -- more than four years after 9/11 and three and a half years after his arrest, -- Jose Padilla, American citizen, (BBC profile,) has been charged with crimes by the Federal government. It’s not the ‘dirty bomb’ plot he was arrested for, either. Instead, “the Justice Department’s 31-page ( Read more... )

When is a lie not a lie? The Bush Administration has admitted for the first time that it has not given the Red Cross access to all detainees in its custody. How Nixonian of them, eh? Until now, the State Department has issued carefully worded statements that gave the impression the Red Cross was being given full access, when in reality they were ( Read more... )