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Extra, Extra, The Dead Were Wrong, Women Aren't Smarter

By  Tony Pierce
Published Nov 30, 2006 11:00 PM
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- There are twice as many men than women with IQs over 120. Not so fast, Dubya - The Independent

- Police taser an 11-year-old in a Jonesboro, Georgia middle school - WSBT

- Just in time for Christmas! A perfectly preserved dinosaur nest containing 22 fossilized eggs of ancient dead baby dinos will go on auction tomorrow here in LA - AP

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- Just in time for Kwanzaa! Own Jessica Alba's bra - City Rag

- Huffington Post plans on including real reporting to their liberal media bias - NY Times

- Fuck lying to the American people about blow jobs, yesterday a White House lawyer, under oath, to the Supreme Court said that the connection between greenhouse gas emissions, C02, and global warming "cannot unequivocally be established" - Think Progress

- Bush administration really doesn't like Black people. A Federal judge yesterday told them to stop cutting FEMA benefits to tens of thousands of Gulf Coast victims of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita - WAPO

- Time to invade Iran - they're supporting terrorism by giving guns to Iraqi insurgents - ABC

- Rappers chime in on the Laugh Factory's ban on the word "nigger" - All Hip Hop

- Jones Soda switching from artificial sugar to pure cane mmmmmmm sugar - Seattle PI

- Fox says that linking to other web sites is illegal - Quick Silver Screen

photo of tagging in Westwood by Jake Dobkin

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