Wednesday, November 16, 2005

Page 1 Consider (11/16)

  • Why does Sony need to copy-protect Celine Dion's new CD when they could barely bribe DJs to play her last one? (USA Today)

  • SCOTUS wannabe Sam Alito Downplays 1985 Abortion Statement, tells women to "abort all they want!" (ABC)

  • Who's Who in America 2006: When the Olsen twins get twice the space as the president of the United States, you know the world is in serious trouble. (NYT)

  • We needed an FBI profiler to tell us this about the 18-year-old boy who shot his 14-year-old girlfriend's disapproving parents? "Kara Borden may well be simply a young teenager who had a special relationship with someone believed by others to be too old for her. Perhaps David Ludwig shared her feelings and just couldn't take being told that he could not have a relationship with her." Yeah, I'm guessing that shooting two people at pointblank range would "perhaps" indicate that he "couldn't take being told that he could not have a relationship with her." (MSNBC)

  • The Washington Post's review of Madonna's "Confessions on a Dance Floor" sounds about right, now if Amazon would just deliver the damn CD to my house ... (WashPost)

  • Dallas Newlywed Police Officer Fatally Shot: Leave it to FoxNews to make this man's marital status part of the news, like it would have been less tragic if he were single? (FOX)

  • I hope she has rollover minutes: Cell Phone Bandit, Boyfriend Held in Robberies, Police Say (LoudounTimes-Mirror)

  • Remember how compassionately the Catholic church handled victims of sexual abuse? They're even more compassionate when murder is involved (WashPost)

  • The (fake) doctor is in: Playing Pharmacist to Friends (doesn't everybody do this?) (NYT)

  • American Heroes: Names of the Dead (NYT)

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