Stories You Might Have Missed
For those of you too busy to read beneath the fold, here are some items you might have missed.
....At least 64% of Americans think the coverage of Whacko Jacko was excessive. The other 36% were probably sobbing inconsolably.
...Jackson’s brother Jermaine is another loon. He called his Michael "a gift from Allah" and declared, "He went too soon....I wish it was me."
...CBS Radio led their four o’clock news on Wednesday with lengthy obits of Karl Malden and Harve Presnell.
...A federal Judge struck down a Connecticut law that threatened a fine and jail time for people who called themselves interior designers, if they didn’t have a state license. They didn’t need a license to call themselves interior decorators.
...The Arizona Senate passed a measure allowing people to carry concealed weapons into places that serve alcohol, although if they’re packin’ they can’t be drinkin’.
...The FDA is requiring the makers of two anti-smoking drugs to put a warning on their boxes saying taking the stuff can produce serious mental health problems, including suicidal thoughts, depression, hostility and other behavioral changes.
...India’s highest court has ruled that homosexuality is no longer a criminal act.
...In 2004, an SEC investigator reported to higher-ups that something didn’t add up in Bernie Madoff’s accounting. She was told to investigate something else by two bosses, one of whom later married Madoff’s niece.
...Prosecutors are trying to put Frank Colacurcio Sr. in prison for good for racketeering. That may not take a long sentence; he’s 92. His rap sheet dates back to 1943.
...And finally, a judge has blocked the American publication of a book by a Swede that was a take-off on "Catcher in the Rye." Said the judge, the knock-off "too closely mirrors Salinger's classic without adequate parody or critique." The book is available in Europe.
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