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HOLIDAY CARD DEBUNKAGE

Just ’cause I’ve been seeing this one in the wild:
Claim: Walter Reed Hospital will accept Christmas cards addressed to “A Recovering American Soldier.”
Status: False.
Also: Cruel irony department, Veterans Day edition (Chicago Sun-Times)

HEADLINE OF THE DAY

Hide your old pills in poop, U.S. government says

BLACKFACE PRISON COSTUME @ DHS PARTY

A top immigration official has apologized after awarding “most original costume” to a Homeland Security Department employee who dressed in prison stripes, dreadlocks and dark makeup for a Halloween gathering at the agency.
Julie Myers, assistant secretary overseeing Homeland Security’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement division, was part of a three-judge panel that lauded the costume, worn […]

PHOSPHORESCENT FOOD

“We don’t hear a lot of complaints about glowing seafood, but then people rarely look at their shrimp and crab in the dark.”
—Andy Richards, seafood department manager, West Seattle Thriftway
Bonus: 1998 FDA article on glowing seafood

HALLOWEEN: TWO VIEWS

Tim Boucher (no relation):

It made me realize what Halloween is all about: sharing value amongst your community. When you have extra, you give it away to others. In Harvest Culture, this is directly obvious: food you don’t eat or game you don’t freeze goes bad. Better to give it away than to waste it. As […]

WATER RAGE

A man has been killed in a fight over watering his lawn in drought-stricken Australia in an apparent case of water rage.

OMG MAC TROJAN

This comment on Slashdot sums it up nicely:

To get infected, you have to:
1) Go to a porn site
2) Download a plugin from the porn site
3) Click “OK” that you are downloading a .DMG file.
4) Mount the .DMG
5) Go back to the Finder
6) Double-click the installer
7) Type in your account password
8) Click next a few times

So […]

GREED

Fat squirrel trapped behind bars (BBC)

A LOT OF QUESTIONS WRITTEN DURING A FIRE

Laurie Anderson, “National Anthem” (YouTube)
Psst: Only an expert can deal with the problem
Previously ‘varked:

On Women and Money

BINGO

“Christianity: An idea so fragile that it is threatened by a fantasy movie for kids!”