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Here’s something you probably didn’t know: Ireland today is the richest country in the European Union after Luxembourg.

Bush Anxious to Learn More of Deep Throat

Yes.

file under “ooops”…:

The US government is scrambling to find a way to close a loophole that allows convicted rapists and other high-risk sex offenders to receive Viagra at taxpayer expense.

A woman who founded a “no-kill” animal shelter has been charged with numerous violations after 200 dead cats were discovered rotting in garbage bags in her backyard.

The Homeland Security Authorization Act requires that more than 50 percent of the components in any end product bought by the Department of Homeland Security be produced or manufactured in the U.S. Oops:

“With this purchasing prohibition, I guess (the department) will have to learn to do without computers and cell phones,” ITAA President Harris Miller said in a statement. “I cannot think of a single U.S. manufacturer that could meet this 50 percent threshold for these devices, and I doubt that those charged with protecting our safety here at home can either.”

in yet another case of an overzealous high school principal squelching free speech, Winona Senior High School’s Nancy Wondrasch doesn’t want students wearing buttons.

When senior Carrie Rethlefsen began wearing an “I (heart) My Vagina” button to school, she says she was trying to speak out against violence toward women.

However, Winona Senior High School administration think the button could be interpreted differently.

A month after she began donning the button, Rethlefsen was told to take it off.

But Rethlefsen considers the button a matter of free speech.

And the hypocrisy element:

Other students said their peers often wear shirts that say “Pet my pussy,” “I got lucky in Kentucky” or attire bearing Hooters or Playboy bunny logo without consequence.

Last month, [Microsoft] quietly withdrew its support for House bill 1515, the anti-gay-discrimination bill currently under consideration by the Washington State legislature, after being pressured by the Evangelical Christian pastor of a suburban megachurch.

Inc. magazine has a piece on 26 most fascinating entrepreneurs. There’s Craig Newmark (for putting the free in free markets) and Mike Lazaridis, who really get it:

Mike Lazaridis, whose company launched the BlackBerry in 1998, developed his philosophy of innovation as an intern at Ontario’s Control Data in the early 1980s. He often saw the engineers butt heads with the marketing department.
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“The kiss of death is when you allow marketing to dumb down innovations”

boy attacks easter bunny at mall.