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Tonight, "The Daily Show" with Jon Stewart will interview Bill Clinton. On the Comedy Channel, 11pm Eastern, 10pm Central.

I can't post the article or excerpts because of copyright concerns, but the latest issue of GQ magazine has a bizarre article claiming that George W. Bush was actually working for the government in a James Bond sort of role during his "missing" years in the National Guard... Check the link.

<p>BERLIN (AP) — German prosecutors said Thursday they are investigating a student for stealing electricity after he plugged his laptop into a train station electrical socket and used 0.2 euro cents, or a quarter of a U.S. cent's worth, of power.</p>

TIKRIT, Iraq – Here's the conundrum: You've got six really big missiles, and the bosses want to make sure they don't get used. You don't know what's inside, and you don't want to find out that it's a chemical or biological weapon. That rules out tried and true methods of firing a few rounds from a .50-caliber machine gun or an automatic grenade launcher, or taking care of business with a chunk of plastic explosive. The solution: a variation on an old prank played on unsuspecting cattle. Instead of tipping cows, however, soldiers with G Troop, 10th Cavalry tipped SA-2...

Debunking the "wing" picture Here's the original picture from an Israeli newspaper alleged to be the damaged "wing" of Columbia, shot during an in-flight interview with the Israeli astronaut: Besides the obvious problems (you can't see much of the wings from the shuttle windows, the wings have no "stovepipe" structure as seen in the photo, no tiling is visible, etc.), the main problem with the photo is that it's of a different portion of the shuttle entirely -- it's the inside front edge of the open cargo bay. The "stovepipe" object is one of the "lugs" that the cargo doors...