Chuck D Still Fighting the Power

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100313/music_nm/us_enemy

Seasons on Neptune’s Moon

http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20100407/sc_space/seasonsdiscoveredonneptunesmoontriton

60 Years of Cartier-Bresson

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100407/ap_en_re/us_cartier_bresson_exhibit

I Don’t Know Where That $26k You Found in my Bra Came From – SPOKANE, WASHINGTON -  Have you ever been in a situation where you were breaking the law, or at least doing something you shouldn’t have been doing, then you get pulled over by the cops?  Sure, everyone has, and everybody, in some way, shape, or form, has lied about it, but who wouldn’t?  It’s an automatic physiological response to tell the cop who inconveniences your day with those damn lights and siren a lie.  Like that one time when you drank a case of beer and smashed into every car on the way home, then you told the cops you only had one beer earlier in the day.  Or how about that other incident where you were caught stealing toilet paper on camera at work, but you said it wasn’t you, only somebody with a wooden leg and hook for an arm that looked like you.  That’s nothing.  This shady broad got caught with a duffle bag full of money stuffed in her bra, and she said she had no idea how it got there.

A Spokane, Washington sheriff’s deputy said a woman who was brought in during a drug sweep had nearly $26,000 in stashed her bra when she was taken into custody.  The woman, a repeat offender, was one of three suspects arrested Friday as part of an alleged fraud ring.  Apparently the group made phony Oregon driver’s licenses and counterfeit credit cards to get fast cash advances from Spokane banks.   All three were arrested after a teller at one bank reported that one of the suspects tried to withdraw $5000 with a stolen debit card.  During a strip seach at the county jail guards found that the bra stuffer, who is 6 feet tall and 402 pound, had the cash hidden in her bra  and in folds of fat under her boobs.  The guards also found bank receipts, a switchblade, a large bag of marijuana  and a vcr with a surveilance tape stolen from one of the banks.  The woman is facing up to 15 years for fraud and a trip to Jenny Craig’s boot camp so she can lose some of that fat ass. (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100314/ap_on_fe_st/us_odd_forgery_bust)

Digital Addiction

http://www.guardian.co.uk/theobserver/2010/mar/21/tom-bissell-video-game-cocaine-addiction/print

Bye Bye Bajaj

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100314/ap_on_bi_ge/as_india_wealth_and_scooters

New Mummies in Tibet

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/16/science/16archeo.html?ref=science&pagewanted=all

8 Ways to Blow Your Plastic Wad - AMERICA -  If you’re like every other lazy bastard in America, you want to work at a place where you can earn the most amount of money doing the least amount of anything.  Yeah, sounds great, but it ain’t happening that way, unless your indulging in criminal activity.  In all reality you’re a hard-working slob who earns his money chunk by chunk, week after week, then you spend it foolishly within few minutes of the paycheck being direct deposited with just one swipe.  Some times it’s you debit super deluxe pizza maker with a built in kegerator and lounge chair, until your mom says you can’t make pizza or drink beer in your basement bedroom.  Other times it’s a replica suit of armor and VW bus-sized catapult charged at the county Renaissance Fair, then your wench laughes her head off when you pull into the driveway and says to “taketh it back or no pillaging for a fortnight” or two.  However, if you are the type who doesn’t think it’s any of your mother’s business what the hell you do with your mar card, or your nagging wife’s for that matter, then here is a list of 8  ways to blow your plastic wad like there’s no tomorrow, but oh, there will be.

1. Internet-  internet porn, internet shopping, internet PORN and SHOPPING.

2.  Big-ticket items-  Yes, a life-sized Millenium Falcon is a big-ticket item, but that lazer tracked photo ray will come in handy when your boss fires you for stealing lunches from the break room fridge.

3.  Deposit required-  Anything that requires a deposit is a for sure thing, though 2500 hundred credit card payments for that Ferarri might cut into the beer fund.

4.  Restaurants-  Hot wings and beer served by sluts in tight shirts at Hooters.  Enough said.

5.  Buy now, pay later-  No payments until 2012, unless you’re in a brothel in Vegas where happy endings are paid in full and up front, just by entering a pin.

6.  Recurring payments-  Isn’t great that mom is still paying for Hustler and Juggs magazine, ever since you secretlly put them on her Visa way back in college?

7.  Travel-  In just one click you can get Irie in Jamaica with a room full of Rastas for as long as Jah likes as long as Jah bank doesn’t find out.

8.  Gas station/licquor store/kwiki mart-  Where else can you get gas, three cases of beer, a bottles of Boone’s, two packs of tops, some chips, gum, a Hotrod magazine, 106 lottery tickes and some chapstick on the bank’s dime? (http://finance.yahoo.com/banking-budgeting/article/109125/10-places-not-to-use-your-debit-card?mod=bb-checking_savings)

As smart as men think they are, sometimes reaching into a man-purse is like a multiple choice test in a 10th grade match class:  How much is this life-sized portrait of Motley Crue going to cost when it’s spread out into 106 monthly payments?  While credit cards may actually be a convenient way of paying for a bunch of junk you don’t need, and can’t afford,  you really should’t have access to one iaf you have a problem with spending money that’s not yours.  And, since a debit card is a direct line to your bank account, there are places where it can be wise to avoid handing it over – like whorehouses, gas stations and rock concerts.  But, it’s a pretty good chance that you don’t have more than $100 bucks in your checking account so spend the bank’s money freely till they cut you off completely.

Contador Hangs to Lead in Paris-Nice

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100313/sp_wl_afp/cyclingfra

MTV Abandons Generation Xers

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100305/music_nm/us_mtv