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In fact, the one good thing about being raised in a downward-spiraling country dominated by aggressive morons is that the comedy just keeps getting better and better. The very best comedies on TV, namely "The Office," "30 Rock" and "South Park," all get their comedy from the fact that you can't swing a clueless loser these days without hitting an ignorant asshole. Even my 12-year-old stepson, when I mentioned that I needed to watch "Big Brother 9," asked, "Is the house full of dumb butts again this year?" Indeed, in these unique socioeconomic times in American history, there will be...

The Israeli-owned Paradise Hotel in Indian Ocean port of Mombassa, Kenya reopened Sunday exactly two years after hotel was the target of a suicide car bombing attack. Three suicide bombers rammed their car into the Israeli-owned Paradise Hotel in November 2002, killing Noy and Dvir Anter, 12 and 13, Albert DeHaville, 60, and nine others, and wounding 80. At about the same time, terrorists fired at least two missiles at an Arkia airliner carrying 261 passengers as it took off from Mombassa's airport for Israel. The missiles narrowly missed, and the plane landed safely at Ben-Gurion Airport approximately five hours...

MOMBASA, Kenya (Reuters) - A man arrested by Kenyan police hunting accomplices in the bombing of an Israeli-owned Mombasa hotel set off a hand grenade in the city on Friday, seriously wounding himself and two policemen, police said. Senior police officer Gerald Wanjama told Reuters the man was sitting in the back of a police van taking him to a police station when he detonated the grenade concealed on his body. Police sources said they believed one of the policemen later died of his wounds. There was no immediate confirmation. Police investigators said the policemen had been searching for accomplices...