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Bill Bowden reported in the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette this morning that they'll be dropping live turkeys out of an airplane over Yellville again this Friday and Saturday at Yellville's Turkey Trot Festival. The FAA said it doesn't get into animal cruelty issues (and you can be sure the local prosecutor has been bullied to silence by the locals on the issue). As long as the pilot, Mountain View pharmacist Dana Woods, doesn't drop turkeys over a crowd, the regulators say there's nothing they can do. Woods has been smirking about this cruel practice for years as the Phantom Pilot. There was...

IT WAS like sooo rude, but a California judge has ruled that writers on the hit TV show Friends did not sexually harass an assistant when salaciously describing the sexual habits and anatomy of some of the show's biggest stars.Amaani Lyle named the show's writers and producers, along with studios NBC and Warner Brothers, in a long-running lawsuit alleging sexual discrimination, which has now been thrown out of California's supreme court in Los Angeles. Ms Lyle, 32, who was fired from the show in 1999 after four months over the quality of her transcripts, claimed that the writers' talk of...

Judge Pickering, Arlen Specter, and more. 01/20/2003, Volume 008, Issue 18 Clintonus Maximus! ON SUNDAY, January 5, 82-year-old Roy Jenkins died at his home in Oxfordshire, England. Jenkins was a great and distinguished man: a Welsh miner's son who became a three-time cabinet minister, founder of the Social Democratic party, president of the European Commission, author of more than 20 much admired books of historical scholarship, a British life peer, and member of the Queen's Order of Merit. Baron Jenkins's death leaves his final position, chancellor of Oxford University, open. So who on earth could possibly take his place? Bizarrely...