Archive for July, 2008
Dalai Lama: Bush Has Lack of Understanding of Reality
Posted on 21. Jul, 2008 by chaze.
Dalai Lama image Courtesy of The News Journal/Suchat Pederson The Dalai Lama, in a lecture in Philadelphia yesterday, told a group of about 2,000, Things are not black and white. Things are relative. Things are interdependent. When we look at a situation we have to consider all the factors. Many world disasters, including war, including [...]
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Dubai in the clouds
Posted on 16. Jul, 2008 by chaze.
Dubai has the tallest buildings in the world.
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20 Life lessons from Batman’s Zen
Posted on 12. Jul, 2008 by chaze.
1. It ain’t over till the fat lady sings. Batman has won more fights at the last minute than we can count. The singing, the lady — it’s a good metaphor. But we actually mean this one literally. Leave an opera before the fat lady sings, and you know what is over? Your life as [...]
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cage fights turn gay for new Sacha Cohen movie
Posted on 08. Jul, 2008 by chaze.
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – Crowds in Arkansas came for the lure of cage fighting and $1 beer, but police say what they got instead was men ripping each others’ clothes off and kissing — a stunt suspected of being orchestrated by Sacha Baron Cohen of “Borat” fame. “We had a contract for cage fighting. We [...]
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Russian blogger sentenced for “extremist” post
Posted on 08. Jul, 2008 by chaze.
MOSCOW (Reuters) – A Russian man who described local police as “scum” in an Internet posting was given a suspended jail sentence on Monday for extremism, prompting bloggers to warn of a crackdown on free speech online. Savva Terentiev, a 28-year-old musician from Syktyvkar, 1,515 kilometers (940 miles) north of Moscow, wrote in a blog [...]
