Quoted: A wealthy New York woman is sentenced to 11 years in jail for keeping two Indonesian women as slaves.

whoa.

Quoted: Construction of the world's first moving building, a 80-storey tower with revolving floors which give it an ever-shifting shape, is due to begin.

Quoted: Voters in Bolivia's gas-rich Tarija province overwhelmingly back greater autonomy in a referendum, exit polls suggest.

Quoted: A three-legged, one-eyed, cancer-afflicted dog named Gus has been crowned the World's Ugliest Dog at a fair in California.

once again--so great

Quoted: Officials in California dedicated the Folsom Dam Memorial, which will honor the nearby residents that will die when the faulty dam fails.

Obama should stop pandering to people that would never vote for him in the first place and clarify a solid position.

Quoted: As the senator and his campaign have sought to explain his remarks to a pro-Israel lobby, they have been accused of backtracking, generating a new round of criticism at home among Jewish groups.

whoa.

Quoted: MONTERREY, Mexico (June 3) - A car has plowed into a bike race along a highway near the US-Mexico border, killing one and injuring 10 others. Police investigator Jose Alfredo Rodriguez says the 28-year-old driver was apparently drunk and fell asleep

whoa...

Quoted: But in an apparent bid to defuse the potential standoff, the assembly was giving the king 15 days to vacate the palace in central Katmandu, said Bimalendra Nidhi of the centrist Nepali Congress, the second largest party in the assembly. Nidhi made the comments after his party met with the Maoists — former insurgents — who hold the most seats in the assembly and are expected to lead the country's new government. The Maoists gave up their 10-year fight for a communist Nepal not long after, and the election of the assembly in April marked the culmination of the peace process with the former insurgents. The assembly is charged with governing Nepal while it rewrites the constitution. On Tuesday, 575 of its members were sworn in.

I just found out about a recent push in city government for an "Events Promoters" ordinance that would force competely unrealistic criteria upon small events promotors. The effects of this ordinance are potentially disastrous for local and independent music and theater.

Quoted: Imagine a Chicago with no Metro or Double Door...