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A jury in the Bahamas, after hearing testimony in an Inquest regarding the cause and manner of death of 20-year-old Daniel Smith, son of Anna Nicole Smith, has determined that the young man died from an accidental drug overdose. The seven-member jury deliberated for two hours, after weeks of testimony spread out over [...]

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Ah, an article after my own heart. Regular readers are aware of how much I love the bad American Idol auditions, and Entertainment Weekly must have read my mind, because it has made a list of the Top Ten worst appearances by American Idol contestants. These aren’t the auditions, folks. These are [...]

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I previously covered this story, back when it first broke, and updated readers again when the cops were trying to blame it on the man who died.
Here is my statement from my second blog article, on the matter of whether he was killed by the cop:

Lawrence County Coroner Burton Payne said there were was no [...]

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…. that Paris Hilton would take some dancing lessons.  I have seen a number of videos of Paris “dancing”, and if I “danced” as badly as she does, I’d be too embarrassed to even dance in my house alone.
Here, a contestant on “Miss Turkey” invites Paris onto the stage during her belly dance.  What a [...]

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I just finished appearing on “Live From Court Street with Jason and Cilla” - what a blast!
We talked about American Idol, and politics. We even talked about immigration for a minute or two.
Jason and Cilla are very nice folks, and they’re doing a great job with their show despite the technical problems they ran [...]

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Meme: Tag You’re It

I was tagged by Dee

What time did you get up this morning? I’m not sure, but it was very late.
Diamonds or pearls? Both

What is your favorite TV show? The Office
What do you usually have for breakfast? I don’t eat breakfast.
What is your middle name? Sue
What food do you dislike? Rice. I think it [...]

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I previously wrote about Joshua Mauldin, who was convicted of microwaving his infant daughter; yesterday he was sentenced to 25 years in prison. His wife, Eva (who wasn’t there when it happened, so she wasn’t charged), claimed that the devil made him commit that crime, and he pled insanity. In another unrelated case, [...]

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Regular readers may recall that I was going to appear on last week’s episode of “Live From Court Street with Jason and Cilla“, but the show had to be canceled due to circumstances beyond their control. This is just to let you know that the show is on for tomorrow, Saturday, March 28th.
The show [...]

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Candidate Endorsement: Chris Bennett for Vice President

[NOTE: Originally posted on Last Free Voice]
As you are hopefully all by now aware, longtime LFV contributor Chris Bennett is seeking the LP’s Vice Presidential nomination. While he would have my support simply for being an LFV contributor and a great guy, there is so much more to his candidacy that I have decided [...]

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Joshua Mauldin, previously discussed on this blog, has been found guilty of felony injury to a child. He had pled not guilty, and claimed he was insane when he committed the crime. His wife, Eva, had previously stated that he was possessed when he punched the baby, put her in a hotel safe, [...]

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Tonight is the first night for the Top Ten. For those of you who don’t normally follow this crap competition, the Top Ten go on tour together during the summer, so they all make some major moolah simply for having gotten this far.
To refresh your memory, last week Amanda “Vampira” Overmyer was eliminated. [...]

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Chantal Sebire, a 52-year-old French schoolteacher, suffers from a rare disease which has left her disfigured with facial tumors, and which will eventually damage her brain and kill her; there is no cure, and no treatment. She could suffer horribly for years before dying, in the meantime becoming [...]

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A court in California has ruled that parents cannot homeschool their children, unless they have a teaching degree. Strangely, this ruling would prevent even parents with a doctorate in another discipline from teaching their own children, unless they go back to college to get a teaching degree. Yet I once even taught public [...]

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From TIME Magazine:
At least 15 military service members or their relatives are believed to have been infected with hepatitis by a nurse suspected of stealing their painkillers during surgery.
The nurse, retired Army captain Jon Dale Jones, was arrested this month in Miami on federal charges of assaulting three of those patients and possession of a [...]

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From Scientific American:
Are smarter people drawn to music, theater and dance? Or does arts training in childhood change the brain in positive ways? In 2004, the philanthropic Dana Foundation created a consortium of neuroscientists from seven universities to address those questions. On March 4, the group released a report, Learning, Arts, and the [...]

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The website for Alton, Illinois - located about 15 miles north of St. Louis - says that it’s “a great place to live, work, grow, and prosper”.
It wasn’t any of that for Dorothy Dixon (pictured at left), who relocated there last fall from Quincy, about 100 miles from St. Louis.
Ms. Dixon, a 29-year-old mentally disabled [...]

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Candidates Gone Wild: Presidential Wackjob Edition

We’re all familiar with John McCain, Hillary Clinton, and Barack Obama. However, have you ever wondered what other presidential candidates are out there? Are you longing for a presidential candidate who is really and truly different? If so, one of these guys just might be your man.
Unlike most mainstream presidential candidates, God The Great Holy [...]

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I previously posted that I would be on “Live From Court Street with Jason and Cilla” this afternoon, discussing American Idol and politics.
However, due to circumstances beyond their control, they were not able to have a show today, so it has been rescheduled to next Saturday, March 29th, at 6:30 (the show starts at 5:30).
I’ll [...]

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Dr. Jack Tsao, a Navy neurologist with the Uniform Services University, was looking for ways to help soldiers like Paupore. He remembered reading in graduate school a paper by Dr. V.S. Ramachandran that talked about an unusual treatment for amputees suffering “phantom limb pain,” using a simple $20 mirror.The mirror tricks the brain into [...]

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It’s Beatles night. Again.
I guess that explains why Randy Jackson was yawning when Ryan went to introduce him. That’s never a good sign. Then he plugged Paula’s new song by working it into a comment. How corny.
As usual, I’ll just type what I’m thinking. I do not go back [...]

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I have written about the case of Nixzmary Brown several times. Nixzmary was a little 7-year-old girl in New York who was treated like an animal, tied to chairs, forced to use a cat litter box, starved, and eventually beaten to death for taking a yogurt out of the refrigerator.
Although I first heard and [...]

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I was tagged by Dee. I am tagging: Kent, Sandy, Blessed1, Yuriko, Tyler, Paulie, Miche, Danny Vice, Stupid Evil Bastard, Jake, everyone at Last Free Voice, and everyone else who’s reading this (if I left you out, I’m sorry, it wasn’t on purpose!)

List 5 things you still do, that you did when you were a baby/little [...]

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Just to give everyone a head’s up, I’m going to be on the cool new “Live From Court Street with Jason and Cilla” this Saturday, March 22nd.
The show starts at 5:30, I’ll be on around 6:30. You probably want to listen in early, though, because their first guest is a former WWE Ring Announcer. [...]

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Disturbing medical marijuana case involving an AIDS patient