News/Not News

• Frederik Joelving. Why the #$%! Do We Swear? For Pain Relief. New Scientist, 19 July 2009.
• Trendy science findings more likely to be wrong. New Scientist, 01 July 2009.

-New Scientist points to the quality of the vast majority of the science they report.

• "Sunni Sheik Who Backed U.S. in Iraq Is Killed" By Alissa J. Rubin, September 14, 2007

-No awakening in Iraq?

• "Al Gore’s Nobel peace prize is a rebuke for the President, claim Democrats", Tom Baldwin, The Times Online, October 13, 2007

-Al Gore and Jimmy Carter awarded the Nobel Peace Prize because the Nobel committe hates U.S. President Bush!

-"The last American to win the prize was former president Jimmy Carter in 2002, when the committee chairman Gunnar Berge called it “a kick in the leg” to Mr Bush for planning a war in Iraq."

• "Did software kill soldiers?", Leon Engelbrecht, ITWeb, 16 October 2007

-Holy Air Defense gun failure... (South Africa)

• "Clinton Deploys Very Special Forces To Iraq", The Onion, January 20, 1999
• "In violent protests, Sudanese call for teddy bear teacher's death", Tracy Connor, Daily News, November 30th 2007