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I love the Weekly World News. Stories this week (all exclamation marks theirs): The sun will...

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The Dow dropped an amusing 355 points yesterday. Raymond, Ed, Martin and basically everyone else...

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Come, spend hours browsing the ad graveyard -- don't be fooled by the really tiny "[more]" links,...

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Yet another story indicating that Yasser Arafat is gay. Coming on the heels of this earlier story...

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The Dow's been climbing for the past 3 days in a row -- triple-digit climbing, mind, none of this...

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I wish the upcoming recession (I tell you, it is going to happen) would just get it over with, so...

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Ah, the Dow: my favourite spectator's sport. What will it do today? Will it plunge downwards again,...

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Okay, so as of this week, thanks to the brilliant state of corporate finance, it would be a bad...

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I was reading this MSNBC article (surprisingly critical of Microsoft for a company owned by MS)...

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Hmm, maybe everybody spoke to soon about that economic recovery... the markets are in freefall....

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And in other IMHO history-making news, the UN security council formally backed the creation of a...

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I've noticed that recently BBC News Online seems to always have the same three types of article as...

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It's time for another round of Microsoft-bashing -- you know how much fun that is. It's been a bad...

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Such a pity. I was all geared up to spend the day rubbing my hands and giggling as bearded...

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Fantastic news! (Thanks to Ed for pointing it out). Apparently, laziness is good for you. This may...

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