Month: July 2009

Michael Schumacher Returns To Formula One To Replace Badly Injured Ferrari Driver Felipe Massa; Gearheads Worldwide Experience Chills

Reaction to Schumacher’s return THE BBC The news that Formula 1 legend Michael Schumacher will return to the track and replace injured Ferrari driver Felipe Massa has fired the imagination of those in and around the sport. The seven-time world champion will come out of retirement to step into the breach after Massa fractured his […]

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Deaf, Mentally Ill Man Tasered and Pepper Sprayed By Mobile Police

July 28, 2009 BY ASSOCIATED PRESS MOBILE, Ala.—- Police in Mobile, Ala., used pepper spray and a Taser on a deaf, mentally disabled who they said wouldn’t leave a store’s bathroom. The family of 37-year-old Antonio Love has filed a formal complaint over the incident on Friday. Police tell the Press-Register of Mobile that officers […]

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Rocking The Yoga Up In Tahoe

July 28, 2009 New York Times By MELENA RYZIK LAKE TAHOE, Calif. — Beneath a starry sky here on Friday, on a stage underneath a ski lift, Sharon Jones, the powerhouse singer of the funk-soul band the Dap-Kings, was nearly ready to perform. “What I need to do now,” she told the audience, “is loosen […]

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Glenn Greenwald Waterboards Chuckie Todd

S A L O N Glenn Greenwald Yesterday, I voiced several criticisms of comments made earlier this week by NBC News Political Director Chuck Todd regarding potential torture investigations by the Obama Justice Department.  Shortly thereafter, he emailed me to say that he wished I had contacted him before posting.  In response, I invited him to participate in a […]

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