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Meet Joe Dirt Stuart K. Hayashi In 2001, comedian David Spade came out with a movie titled "The Adventures of Joe Dirt." It now appears that the film was about Joe Conason, the author of "Big Lies: The Right-Wing Propaganda Machine and How It Distorts the Truth" and an editorialist for the liberal-biased Salon.com. In the person of Brad Pitt, you've already Met Joe Black. Now Meet the Real Joe Dirt. His book purports to expose how right-wingers harness the corporate media to brainwash society. Instead of demonstrating such, however, Joe is too busy flinging his Dirt around. In two...

<p>Monday's elevation of the terror alert level was followed by Tuesday's scary headlines: "Anthrax attack could cost 100,000+ lives" and "Modeling of bio-attack on large city predicts mass casualties with prior distribution of antibiotics."</p> <p>The headlines were spawned by the publication (Mar. 17) of a new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences predicting that a large-scale anthrax attack on a major U.S. city could cause 123,000 deaths, given our current level of preparedness.</p>