2002
Some websites don't keep material a real
long time, so some of these links will expire.
Dec 1
Dec 2
"..the
faith healer ordered an assistant to inject Caceres with a mix of vitamins and
steroids, police say..."
Dallas
News: San Antonio building its case for Toyota plant
Mothers
Against War
Bush
administration detests Freedom of Information
It
wasn't really Satan writing that web page! It was only poor stupid tasteless
dumb Richard!
Sci-Fi
Channel series An Alien Abduction Can Complicate Your Life
Britain
accuses Saddam of systematic torture and killing
Supremes
to rule on Texas anti-gay sodomy law
Del
Rio to honor Wolfman Jack
Dec 3
Blabby
departed White House aide re-educated
Boy
reaches for pencil in class, his gun goes off
Dec 4
15,982
pocket knives taken in airport holiday rush
Poll:
Little public faith in Homeland Security Agency
Band
director accused of mailing raccoon head
Texas
still investigating State Farm and Allstate
Bush
OK'd cash bonus plan for political appointees
Feds
unsure about cause, effects of Earth warming
Fast
tooth whitening “maybe even safe”
Attorney
to Michael Jackson: “Do you have memory problems?” Jackson reply:
“Not that I can recall.”
Will
Penna. gay-slander law muzzle preachers?
Iraq
“material breach” trigger about to be tripped?
Boston
priests abused girls who wanted to be nuns
Winona
Ryder to be sentenced Friday, jail unlikely
Dec 5
Not for little Santa-loving and believing kids! How
to be Mean to Kids
Two
enjineres said Karotkin Building facades were sound, before they collapsed
Pentagon
activating thousands more reservists
What's
in our fast-food French fries
Man
who “was Bigfoot” dies at 84
Arizona cafe family jerked around something fierce by EEOC STORY
| THEIR WEBSITE Pro-English
group
Dec 6
EEOC plagues family cafe in Arizona STORY
| THEIR WEBSITE
Councilmen’s
trial set after May election
FTC and Texas Attorney General sue Body Solutions STORY
| TODAY’S
COMMENTARY
Michael
O'Rourke commentary: Ready for Christmas
Oregon
fires child welfare workers in Weaver case
Sierra
Club sues to kill Padre Island oil drilling plan
New
World's earliest writing found in Mexico
Study
says nearly half Earth's land surface still wild
Inspectors
angered by US claims over Iraqi weapons
Drudge:
MSNBC ratings flatline, rivals await “death”
Hollywood
Info Booth gets stupid tourist questions
Dec 7
Mr.
Jack Ass says “Jackass” TV show hurt his good name
Radio
idiot in trouble over mooning incident
Excited
dog joins football game, 26 kids injured
Angry
screener threatens to blow up airport checkpoint
FoxNews.com
on Celebrity Dirt
Dec 8
UP
“might drive off Toyota”
MY COMMENTARY
ON THIS TOPIC
Dallas
votes this week on restaurant smoking ban
One
of the year’s Top 10 Dumb Crook stories
Will
Bush shrink bureaucracy or not?
Greenland
glaciers had high-level Summer melt
Dec 9
Local
water-need estimates lowered
Thomas
Friedman commentary: Bush, War and the USA
Airport
screening tactics being revised
Cardinal
Law exits Boston, surfaces in Rome
Mormon Author
Faces Expulsion for Skepticism
Texas
may add to sales tax categories
Toronto Star Editorial Canadians:
“It's not our fault we're morally superior to U.S.”
Tombstone
militia meeting a near-flop
Teacher
in trouble for tossing Koosh ball at nodding kid
Dec 10
No
public vote on PGA Village
When
Susan McFarland vanished two weeks ago, she was making plans to divorce her
husband
Mayor
Garza may be getting off his duff, will lead a delegation to confront Union
Pacific next Wednesday
Bethany,
Oklahoma marks city limits with fat blue line
Child-abusing
priest shuttled among parishes despite warning
Corpus
Christi judge wants sex offenders who move to take signs with them
Feature report on rattlesnake and other pit vipers
California
may ban new wood-burning fireplaces
Technology:
the Hands-Free Pump-up bra, and others
Grandma
frisked at airport while guys in “militia style camo outfits” sat
unbothered nearby
Woman
driver ticketed for “vision blocking” rosary
Dec 11
From Bob W: Aeronautical Terms HERE
From a local Cop: GUN REFRESHER COARSE HERE
Judge
rejected Save Our Aquifer’s suit to halt PGA Village project and have a
public vote
Bush:
attack USA and we might well nuke you
Supreme
Court: is cross-burning protected free speech?
Sanitized
movies for rental are on the upswing
Is
proposed fetus-protection law an anti-abortion move?
Yemen
says Scuds were for its army
Discipline
urged for pre-9/11 intelligence failures
Will
it be PGA Village or No-PGA Village?
Iraq
explains that the dog ate its weapons homework
Univ.
of Michigan gives 20 points for race, 12 for SATs
Wife
shoots husband for porn
tape hidden under bed
US
lowers bar on finding weapons in Iraq
Beyond
blocks and Monopoly: what do kids want?
Final
Bexar vote recount expected today
Randolph AFB "USA Flyover" 600x400 version HERE
Dec 12
Gulf Wars Episode 2 poster HERE
(271K)
Mayor Cockrell in Tights
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Boy
found nearby after missing 6 years
Sen.
Lott's comment on Strom Thurmond still causing trouble
Psst,
buddy, wanna buy a Vail manhole cover?
Texas
insurance czar about to be unemployed?
Commentary: Why
civil libertarians are uneasy (Rober Levy)
Homeowner's
nightmare: house bought for $557,000 ordered razed due to mold “...within
weeks of moving in, they learned that the house was uninhabitable and could
be neither insured nor sold.”
Cold
food and 9 things wrong at McDonald’s
Bigfoot
footprint creator dies (photo of partial foot, video too)
Dec 13 sick
Dec 14 sick
Dec 15
CIA
authorized to kill terrorism leaders
Review
of Al Gore hosting Saturday Night Live
NY
Times: Trent Lott's "long shadow of segregation"
To
save the forest, the trees must go Bush okays "management-caused changes
in vegetation" which is Forest Service euphemism for clearcutting
HDTV
shoppers have "upgrade anxiety"
Google
goes shopping: now there's Froogle Google
What
the hell is Sean Penn doing in Iraq?
Sub
teacher tells kids there's no Santa
Dec 16
Alamo
City to ban trucks from fast lanes?
N.E.
Schools lose bonds, considering busing
Wheelchair
speed limit at California college
Newest
Mars probe not finding what was expected
What the hell was Sean Penn doing in Iraq?
New York Times Actor
follows his own script on Iraq and war
Washington Post Star
on a mission for peace
Sen.
James Abourezk statement on his Iraq visit
Sean Penn's statement
on Institute For Public Accuracy website
No.
Korea delivers semi-submersible gunships to Iran
Philadelphia
kindergartens suspend 33 kids
Bush
tax plan may hit lower-income people harder
Tempest
after highschool names lesbians “cutest couple”
Man
in trouble for giving vitamins to rats
Yonkers
school district orders Christmas trees be removed
Dec 17
McDonald's
use of imported beef
300,000
readying to attack Iraq?
Roddy
Stinson sounds alarm on SAWS and Bexar Met
Boys
admit videotaping girls’ locker room
Questions
about giving gifts at the office
Newspaper
story on Wright Brothers flight Dec. 17, 1903 “...an adaptation of
a box kite idea...”
Jury
goes easy on man who assaulted abusive priest
No
holiday fun for toy retailers
Experts
blow whistle on 'CSI' forensic fiction
Coach
gets one year for doing 14-year-old
Man
accused of sex with Nativity scene sheep Good luck. This server in Charleston,
WVa is overwhelmed
Dec 18
Want
the Miss USA pageant here? For $500,000? (My commentary
on that)
U.S.
media getting ready to cover wars with Iraq and Pentagon
Most
TV ads seen by children are for beer, study says
Arms
race between us and telemarketers nationwide do-not-call list
Paul
McCartney switches credits, puts John Lennon second
Second
car stolen and wrecked by seven-year-old boy
Dec 19
MSNBC.com“Material
Breach”
CNN.com
"The Pentagon may begin an aggressive buildup of U.S. military forces in
the Persian Gulf region in January, depending on decisions made in the next
few days, Pentagon officials said."
overlawyered.com
"The Chicago Cubs are suing the owners of rooftop businesses that overlook
Wrigley Field and sell tickets to watch games, saying the establishments are
stealing from the team."
nandotimes.com
"Police say a woman tried to trick her daughter and community into
thinking the girl had cancer so she could raise money, even going so far as
to shave the 7-year-old's head, give her sleeping pills and put her in counseling
to prepare to die."
nbc.com
"Suspect Lemuel Ware told investigators the spider, named "Pinky,"
spoke to him and told him to hit Borland."
ArizonaCentral.com
"A government fact sheet that long promoted condoms as "highly effective"
in preventing HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases now offers a more
neutral summary of the pros and cons of condom use. Congressional Democrats
charge that politics are trumping science."
NandoTimes.com
"An impoverished mother of 10 was ordered to stand trial for murder in
the death of her autistic stepson, who authorities said starved while his father
was in jail for unpaid traffic tickets."
WashingtonPost
"The Bush administration has set the last week in January as the make-or-break
point in the long standoff with Iraq, while the U.N. Security Council will hear
a report today that Iraq failed to account fully for its weapons."
GrandRapidsPress
"Most adults don't believe there are real reindeer," Aldrich said.
"They are not native to this country, and you don't see a lot of them."
Dec 20
SanAntonioExpressNews
Alamo City buys Trump's Miss USA scheme
NewYorkTimes
“The Bush administration is planning to propose requiring Internet service
providers to help build a centralized system to enable broad monitoring of the
Internet and, potentially, surveillance of its users...”
NewYorkTimes
The nation's biggest brokerage firms have agreed to pay almost $1 billion in
fines to end investigations into whether they issued misleading stock recommendations
dallasnews.com
Analyzing every Playboy centerfold since the first one in 1953, they found that
the models' weight hadn't changed much over time, but that busts and hips had
diminished and that waists had become less tapered.
nandotimes
Democratic Gov. Gray Davis was barred Thursday from playing Santa Claus at a
Catholic home for troubled children because he supports abortion rights.
nandotimes
A man who threw his girlfriend's dog off her 23rd-floor balcony was sentenced
Thursday to 12 years in prison for animal cruelty and other charges related
to stalking the woman.
nandotimes
A company that sold life insurance to thousands of U.S. soldiers has agreed
to pay $160 million to settle accusations that its salesmen posed as recruiters
for the Non Commissioned Officers Association and paid kickbacks to use the
name, prosecutors said Thursday.
washingtonpost.com
Packing a suitcase for travel around the holidays has never been easy, with
extra care needed for things like gifts, chocolates and fragile items. But yesterday
airport regulators made things even more complicated.
newsobserver.com
Responding to Sen. Trent Lott's recent comments, Rep. Cass Ballenger told a
newspaper he has had "segregationist feelings" himself after conflicts
with a black colleague.
jacksonsun.com
"I heard a crunching sound and looked at the sandwich," he says.
"I saw the wing of a dead bat sticking out of the side of the sandwich
where I had tried to take a bite.
philadelphiainquirer.com
WHYY-FM (90.9) aired a talk show on the pitfalls of grant-funded journalism
on Tuesday, but the public station's own central role in such a controversy
was kept off the air.
foxnews.com
Booby-trapped oil fields, exploding chemical and biological weapons and sabotaged
food warehouses are all scenarios that Pentagon planners fear may be in Iraqi
leader Saddam Hussein's last-chance playbook.
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Dec 22
Dec 23
Man
tapes 300 $1 bills to window for needy
Ex
truck-loader is Santa to a county “I’m country and I’m poor”
Citizens
donate mountain land to preserve Smokies
People
replace gifts stolen from shelter
Surfing Santa blows into USA from Canada, is nabbed by INS
Town’s
Christmas trees keep getting hit by cars
US
cities ask feds to respect rights in war on terror
Popular
e-mail software is far behind the times
Federally
funded study measures porn arousal
UN
plans for 900,000 Iraq refugees
Dec 24
In
praise of snowmobiles
Sniffer
dogs make mistakes
MP3s
can be used to hack into computers
FBI
again warns about shoe-bomb plots
“Ring
Around Washington” nuke detection exercise showed grave weaknesses
Woman
who nursed puppies has no regrets
No
charges against Baby Jesus thief
Researchers
battle Web robots with identity checks
Yahoo
aiming to shake up world of search engines
Bill
of Rights cut to “manageable” six
WASHINGTON, DC—Flanked by key members of Congress and his administration,
President Bush approved Monday a streamlined version of the Bill of Rights that
pares its 10 original amendments down to a "tight, no-nonsense" six.
PHOTO: BUSH WORKS ON REVISIONS
TO CONSTITUTION
Dec 25 off
Dec 26
Perry
calls on old friends for help
Perry
tries new legislative approach
Some
states drop drug crime minimum sentences
Does
a little torture of U.S. prisoners hurt?
Odd
war between Ted Koppel and neighbors
CNN
sheds news vets, hires younger and cheaper
Commentary: USA
must not destroy our freedoms in order to keep terrorists from destroying them
Shadow 200 is Army's newest spy drone
Dec 27
Raelian
sect makes human clone claim
Now
we are importing molester priests
Homeless couple rob man who helped them
Park
pedophile gives balloons to kids
Russia
offers mothers a free home for 3 babies
Outstanding
junk science performances of 2002
Dec 28
Time
Warner jacking up S.A. cable TV rates again
Would
San Antonio sell our water system?
Where’s
Bush’s big stick for Korea?
Dec 29
Vague
law possibly empowers counties "...could be used to justify everything
from fire codes to tree ordinances, which are powers traditionally denied to
counties in Texas."
2003
brings wide array of new laws
Dallas
News: the top Texas stories in 2002
Fox:
Bright spots in the news in 2002
What
to do about North Korea?
Punishments
which begin after a prison term
Latest
on the little black box in your car
Taking
the capital I off internet
North
Korea's nukes "not really a crisis"
Some
stores cut prices, then give refunds
Unmanned
drones will guard U.S. coastlines
News
of the World
at a Raelian sex clinic
Harry
Potter
author read parts of unfinished book to American girl dying of cancer
Study:
Animals sometimes cooperate with other species when there's something in it
for them
Dec 30
FBI to you: Seen these guys?
a fake story that provides a counterbalancing personhunt HERE
Vague
law possibly empowers counties "...could be used to justify everything
from fire codes to tree ordinances, which are powers traditionally denied to
counties in Texas."
Clone
Baby "Eve" to come to USA Honeyclone, won't you be my baby...
“Identical
twins more identical than clones will ever be”
Dallas
News: why evil North Korea differs from evil Iraq
NY
Times: “The Bush administration has backed away from a longstanding declaration
that it would not tolerate a North Korean nuclear arsenal.”
USA
and Rumsfield were Saddam’s big buddies in 1980s so what changed, him
or us?
One
man's story: Gulf War doctor lost health there
Old
man drives golf cart five miles on I-75
So,
how much of Mariah Carey DID TV viewers see? “More and more I am being
told that Carey's skirt was so short you could see . . . home plate.”
Failed
charities don’t faze Jacko: he wants another
Bush fractured-English
calendar #1, beats S.I. Swimsuits
Dec 31
Free
downtown New Year celebration in San Antonio
White
House cuts war cost estimate
Exceptions
to Einstein's E=mc2
The matter of Jack Ass v. Viacom International Inc. STORY
The New Yorker
Associated
Press poll results— “which do you think poses the greater threat
to the United States - Iraq and Saddam Hussein or the al-Qaida terrorist network
and Osama bin Laden?”
Used
GPS to stalk ex-girlfriend
Lucky
married people already have a date for tonight
US
believes Osama controls at least 15 cargo ships
No.
Korea: Bush strategy a bit odd
No.
Korea: Pyongyang a master of 'the game'
Palestine
is no more than a factoid
$25M for
Judge Judy syndication deal
Diana
Ross arrested “double drunk’ in Tucson
Fruit
banned in prison so Pruno can't be brewed
Baby
Jesus stolen, replaced with stuffed monkey
Some
Maryland gun dealers “filled with despair”
Not for little Santa-loving and believing kids! How
to be Mean to Kids
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