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Jewish World Review Things America Somehow Still Can't Figure Out (Even Though We're Smart Enough to Send a Robot to Mars) By Chuck Shepherd • (1) Authorities somehow could not prevent an inmate serving life at a North Carolina prison from arranging, via a contraband cellphone, to have the 63-year-old father of his prosecutor kidnapped and tortured. (The FBI managed to rescue the man five days after his abduction.) • (2) The U.S. State Department somehow cannot arrange safe haven for Afghan interpreters who risked their lives daily serving U.S. combat troops and who face almost certain retaliation by militants once Americans have departed. Even the coordinator of the interpreter program, who applied for a U.S. visa in 2012, has not been approved (according to a March 2014 New York Times dispatch). [New York Post, 4-14-2014] [New York Times, 3-25-2014] Click here to comment on this column. 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Previously: • News That Sounds Like A Joke • Compelling Explanations • Karma • Arming Uncle Sam's helpers; Unclear on the Concept • Too Cute!; Dead or just in 'deep meditation'? • Least Competent Criminals; Police Report • Great, Ahem, Art! • Government in Action • What's in a Name; Eyes of the Beholder • Taxes and integrity?; Least Competent Advertising Writer • Fine Points in the Law • The Continuing Crisis • Gigadollars and Cents; It's Not One World • (Not So) Bright Ideas • Unclear on the Concept • Can't Possibly Be True! • Least Competent Criminals; Prom Draft • What could they've possibly been thinking!? • Inhumane Society; Least-Competent First Responders • Names influence destinies?; Least Competent Criminals • Science Fair • That Entrepreneurial Spirit • Price of Friendship; More Names in the News • Latest Human Rights; Least Competent Criminals • The Litigious Society • Ironies • Gee, well that certainly explains it! • Hard Times Ahead; Possibly DUI • Police Report • Least Competent Criminals • Great, AHEM, Art! • Government in Action • Alter Egos; New Frontiers in Rehab • Motivated by laziness; Gives 'on the toilet' quite a different meaning! • 'Arranged' Bride Fights Back; Not an Urban Legend X2 • Raise you paw and swear . . . ; Punished for her altruism • Stories That Never Get Old; PETA's Monumental Stupidity • Confront Your Fears • The law is a . . . putz; Least Competent Criminals • Oops!; Bright Ideas • The Championship Brackets • Noise Is Golden; Suspicions Confirmed • Least Competent Criminals; Readers' Choice • The Continuing Crisis • News of the Self-Indulgent; Creme de la Weird • Unclear on the Concept; Progre$$? • Inexplicable • Dem Blues • The Continuing Crisis • The Cutting Edge; Job Security in the Paperwork Mine • All cultures are equal!? • Life Is Too Long; The Aristocrats! • The law may be an ass but . . . • What could they've possibly been thinking!? • The New Normal; Sentimental Journey • People With Issues; Least Competent Criminals • Farming capitalism; Costs of Spain's Economic Collapse • That Entrepreneurial Spirit • People With Issues; Least Competent Criminals • Science Fair • The New Normal; San Fran's No. 1 Problem • Ironies • Least Competent Criminals; Undignified Deaths • The Litigious Society • The Continuing Crisis • Well, that certainly explains it! • Sobering Signs; First-World Problems • Least Competent Criminals; Undignified Deaths • Government in Action • Thing that make you go 'HUH!?'; Suspicion Confirmed • Great, Ahem, Art! • Teach a Man to Fish ...; Atheist pol makes an ass of himself • Least Competent Criminals; Grrrrr! • Prison Blues; Close Enough for Government Work • The Continuing Crisis • Anything to avoid the DMV!; RiDQulous • Higher-Intellect Confrontations; Inexplicable • Find That Genius!; huh!? • Shoes make the . . . murderer?; What was that judge smoking? • People With 'Issues'; Least Competent Criminals' • More 'Can't Possibly Be True!' • Can't Possibly Be True! • People With 'Issues'; The law is an ass? What about the judges • How to practice safety the PC way; how dumb jailbirds attempt escape • They just don't get it • World's Laziest Dog Sitter; Can't Possibly Be True! • People With, ahem, 'Issues'; Least Competent Criminals • What could they've possibly been thinking!? • Can't Possibly Be True; Our Cold, Dead Hands • Management Comes to the Terrorism Industry; Mo' money for the 'hoes, honey • Dang, my 52,000 employees disappeared!; Least Competent Criminals • The Kingdom • Weird Science • The Entrepreneurial Spirit! • All cultures are equal!? • X-rated pigs (of the animal variety); Least Competent Criminals • Updates on News of the Weird Stories • They just don't get it; dumb criminals • Holy Mutations; Drunk and in power on the tax payer's dollar • Going Postal --- Why Taxpayers Should at the U.S. Postal Service; Happy(?) New Year • Ironies • Well, that certainly explains it! • A bald truth exposed; The Aristocrats! • Self-Appreciation; Suspicions Confirmed • The law may be an ass but . . . ; Legislation, Not the Constitution, Is the Supreme Law of the Land • Police Report • Suspicion Confirmed; government's head-scratching logic • Government in Action • Least Competent Criminals • Great, Ahem, Art! • The Aristocrats! Armed & Clumsy (all-new!) • People With Issues • The Continuing Crisis • Bright Ideas • Robo Medicine; Democracy Blues • An American higher education distinction?; The Continuing Crisis • Unclear on the Concept • Can't Possibly Be True • Inexplicable! • News That Sounds Like a Joke • People With Issues; Recurring Themes • OOPS, our bad!; Least Competent Criminals • Cliches Come to Life • What could they've possibly been thinking!? • All cultures are equal!? • Least Competent Criminals; Dead man claims he's alive • Medical Marvels; If only the IRS was so ineffective! • Cutting-Edge Science • That Entrepreneurial Spirit • Undignified Deaths; Least Competent Criminals • Karma • Ironies; Not My Fault • Slick Talkers • Yellow and brown values; Well, that certainly explains it! • 'Little people' becoming big shots; update • You're married to . . . what?; Family affair • Can't Possibly Be True! • Fortune to be had in a millisecond; toilets and tyranny • Something in the Air; Latest Collateral Damage • Police Report • Great Art!; Least Competent Criminals • Unintended monument to government efficiency; blind stupidity • Government in Action • Least Competent Criminals; con or condition? • Sights to Behold • Fine Points of the Law; using the head --- sorta • Oops!; Least Competent Criminals • Cliches Come to Life; Super Protests • REALLY!? • Oh, Dear! • Strange Old World; Oh, my! • People With Issues; Least Competent Criminals • They just don't get it • Unclear on the Concept • Can't Possibly Be True • Least Competent Criminals; Strange Old World • Worth the Commute • People With Too Much Money; Readers' Choice • What could they possibly have been thinking!? • All cultures are equal!? • A Piece of the Action; Least Competent Criminals • Medical Marvels • Least Competent People • Hipster Haven; It's expensive to go broke in America • The Entrepreneurial Spirit • Weird Animals • People With Issues; Least Competent Criminals • Latest Human 'Right'; Ironies • Well, that certainly explains it! • Advice of Counsel • The War Against 'Doing the Right Thing' • Undignified Deaths • People Different From Us • Use What You Have • Great, Ahem, Art! • What's in a name --- OH, MY! • His (Internal) Bar Is Always Open; Close Enough for Government Work • 'Birth toursim'; death and diss • Another Hard-Working Lawyer; health from hell • Happiness is . . . n't a permanent smile; Haute Couture • The Continuing Crisis • Our Freedom to Doze Off, Now in Danger; Busy Being Superheroes • OOPS! • Bright Ideas • Fine Points of the Law • Oh, Dear!; Perverts on Parade • Undignified Deaths; Respect the elders!? • People Different From Us; Because We Can, That's Why • Unclear on the Concept • Can't Possibly Be True! • Pervtown, Florida drawing crowds • Winning wisenheimers • Squirrels Gone Wild; Fat Acceptance Brings Gainers Out of the Sexual Closet • What could they possibly have been thinking!? • All cultures are equal!? • First Amendment Blues; The Pervo-American Community • A court case that really was full of sh-t; retiring animals --- and time to do the same for pols • Leading Economic Indicators • People With Issues; Bling beetle brooch bugs US customs • Animals Gone Wild • That Entrepreneurial Spirit • Strange Old World; Least Competent Criminals • Toxic economics; Fine Points of the Law • Well, that certainly explains it! • Ironies • Spreadsheet parenting; 'using his noodle' taken too far? • Government in Action • Police Report • Great, Ahem, Art! • Least Competent Criminals; Fetishes on Parade • Too Bright Ideas • The Continuing Crisis • Least Competent Criminals; an app that's cr-p----literally • An education in educating; Oops! • Bright Ideas • Haute Water; making navel gazing pay • People With Issues; Undignified Deaths • Inexplicable • Unclear on the Concept • Real Life Roach Motel; Strange Old World • Can't Possibly Be True • Border-jumping practice makes perfect; Final Chapter for America's Most Overconfident Murderer • Zero-Tolerance Alive and Well; passing --- oh, never mind • First-World Crises; bank robbers who inadvertently incriminate themselves during crime • Still Unclear on the Concept; crime fighters get creative • All cultures are equal!? • Government in Action; adventurous men and their 'emergencies' • The Weirdo-American Community; The New Waterboarding • All cultures are equal!? • News That Sounds Like a Joke • What could they've possibly been thinking?! • Satan and abortion; Brew Nation • People Different From Us; Least Competent People • Animals in the News • Science on the Cutting Edge • Weird Entrepreneurial • Annals of Invention; 'Breatharianism' Revisited • Fetishes on Parade; Least Competent Criminal • Well, that certainly explains it! • Ironies • The Litigious Society; Priorities • Community-minded gang members?; Daffy about Donald • Least Competent Criminals; It's Good to Be a Dog in the First World • Police Report • Government in Action • The Litigious Society; Priorities • Undignified Deaths • Seen differently . . .; Creme de la Weird • Oops!; Bright Ideas • Cliches Comes to Life • Things People Believe • Can't Possibly Be True! • Inexplicable • Least Competent Criminals • Mammas, Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up . . . with this Middle Name; Livin' the life in Las Vegas • Sieging cheaters; Oops! • Well, THAT certainly explains it! • Least Competent Criminals; But What If the Device Falls Into the Wrong Hands? • All cultures are equal!? • Chinese Eye Opener; it all depends how you look at it • Least Competent Criminals; crime and immediate punishment • Tax-payer supported terrorist; Fine Points of Law • Unconventional Treatments • How being handicapped pay$; accidental protection 'there'; fire truck-chasing has replaced ambulances • Very Personal Hygiene; ruined ruin$ • People Different From Us; Dogs Gone Wild • The Litigious Society; It's all in how you look at it • Least Competent Criminals • No freakin' way! • Well, THAT certainly explains it! • Ironies; the mites ate the cheese • Updates, Con't • Updates • Don't like the weather? Sue; Cops as dogs • Low Fashion Meets Islam on Turkish TV; Creative Smuggling • Police Report • Hmmm • Great, Ahem, Art! • Pity the civil servant?; The Way Washington Works • Government in Action • The Weirdo-American Community; Backyard Barnyard • No Longer Weird; HUH!? • People With Issues; Hey, if you can get it . . . • Bright Ideas • Oops! • Modern Anglers • The Continuing Crisis • Charming; No Longer Weird • Strange Old World; Warrior for the Lord --- literally • Suspicions Confirmed; Least Competent Criminals • Just doesn't' get it • Can't Possibly Be True! • Democracy Blues • Frontiers of Parenting; Suspicions Confirmed • What money won't buy X2 • All cultures are equal!? • Well-Earned Retirement; Least Competent Criminals • Stinkin' exorcism at center of suit; Took It Too Far • Only in Russia!; So Far, So Good ... Oops! • Premium Health Care for Lovable Animals; The Dark Side • Frontiers of Science • That Entrepreneurial Spirit! • Smarty Pants; While Americans Just Sigh • Most Gullible Perv; TSA leaves the door open • Life Imitates Art; Fine Points of the Law • Ironies • Bum will conditionally drop suit against parents; Well, THAT certainly explains it! • Electric Chastity Belt; Bend Over, the Exec said • Priceless . . . but pay up now! • Boozers in Blue; Best of the blotter • It's NOT one world!; Pol personas • Great, ahem, Art! • Government in Action! • Undocumented Living • Least Competent Criminals • When success smells; Disorder in the court? • An 'A' for (no) effort • People Different From Us; the business of child rearing • Snail Mail: There's an App for That; Oops! • Thieves who shouldn't be; A distinction you won't find chronicled • Child support for the dead; To be Caught in the Fabulous British Government 'Safety Net' • Fake Boyfriends; Backward Incentives • The Iconic Phantom Black/Hispanic Perpetrator; Fines to Fit the Crimes • First-World Products; When it's the arbiters of the law who are . . . • What could they have possibly been thinking!? • Can't Possibly Be True • Inexplicable • Least Competent Criminals; Least Competent lawful • What could they have possibly been thinking!? • Leading Economic Indicators • Doping on Ice • That Entrepreneurial Spirit • Advances in Animal Research • Leading Economic Indicators • Least Competent Dogs • Worker gets caught outsourcing himself • Suspicions Confirmed • The Litigious Society • WOW! Now that certainly explains that • Ironies • Guilt That Lingers; Urban Outfitters' sucker customers • When a bureaucrat's hot air turns putrid; Overachievers • People With Issues; too bad gun laws are so tough in the U.K. • CAUGHT! • Great, ahem, Art! • Government in Action • Not Even a Pin Drop; Least Competent Criminals • Ignored in gun-control debate; Undignified Deaths • Bright Ideas • Medium-Tech Warfare; People With Issues • Tyrone is Breaking Bad (and Quickly!); sympathy for murderers spreading; court orders parents to stop stalking kid • You just never know • Pathetic losers • First-World Problems; People Different From Us • Confusing sweat with tears; But she's qualified! • Sounds Like a Joke; How the U.N. rewards depravity • Can't Possibly Be True! • OOPS! • Alabama justice • March of the morons • All cultures are equal!? • The most honest town in America?; Fired for doing the right thing; Whose best friend? • Breast investment of her life; when government belongs in the bedroom • Giving new meaning to 'extreme fashion', 'identity theft'; Dead wrong • Least Competent Criminals; this case stinks • Culture vulture comeback; 'love' of dogs • CAUGHT! • Least Competent Criminals • First-World Crisis X2 • Leading Economic Indicators • The Entrepreneurial Spirit! • Jails Need Locks Too? • The Continuing Crisis • Well, that certainly must explain it! • Least Competent Criminals • Three-Star Room That's a Dump; CHUTZPAH! • Turning to technology to promote Third Worldism?; People With Issues • Policing our wacky world • Government in Action • Palestinians' smell like . . . war; Great, ahem, Art!? • Fetishes on Parade; makes you wonder • Suspicions Confirmed; a freakin' math genius he definitely ain't • The Continuing Crisis • Oops! • What were they thinking!??? • Can't Possibly Be True! • Egos On Parade • Incredible • School puts truth tellers at disadvantage • All cultures are equal!? • A city that's literally full of &%^* thanks to do-gooders • Least Competent Criminals; of poles and pee • What were they thinking!??? • Holy WHAT!? • People Different From Us; It's NOT One World! • All cultures are equal!? • The difference between poor and pathetic? • Cutting-Edge Science • People Different From Us; Least Competent Criminals • Anything for a buck, yen, etc. • Gee, that certainly must explain it --- not • Ironies • The Litigious Society • People Different From Us; Paint It Gone • Can't society do better than this!? • Least Competent Criminals • Great, Ahem, Art! • Government in Action • Did I Say That Out Loud?; doctor is a medical error • People Different From Us; dumb and deaf • Definitely NOT the way to go; Least Competent Criminals • The West is safer when jihadis don't change their underwear; get a bite out of this • He did it again!? • If it were only Cupid's arrow instead of a gun; Oblivious, hungry humans • Alien ingenuity; divorce or death? • First-World Problems • Least Competent Criminals; MMM, MMM, SICK! • The Simpsons come to life? • What were they thinking!??? • Very Bright Ideas; Disgraced but Not Contrite • Least Competent Criminals • School of Soft Knocks • C'mon. You can't do better than that!? • Inexplicable • Can't Possibly Be True! • All in the Mind • Least Competent Criminals; Ironies • The Litigious Society • All cultures are equal!? • Least Competent Criminals; Horse show jumping, minus the horse • Leading Economic Indicators • Cr-ppy companies --- literally; First-World Problems; They know exactly when you will die • The Animal Kingdom • Poisoned politics; Something about that name • The Litigious Society; You gotta be kidding! • Ironies • Yeah, well, that certainly explains it • People Who Are a Mess; Creme de la Weird • The Litigious Society • You don't say!; They should be embarrassed • Great, ahem, Art! • Overachievers; Least Competent Criminals • Government in Action! • The Aristocrats! • Courtroom Follies • The Continuing Crisis • Roach Responders; Not the Usual Suspects • Science on the Cutting Edge • Undignified Deaths; Questionable Judgments • Least Competent Criminals; Just a matter of perspective • C'mon. You can't do better than that!? • The District of Calamity; Undignified Deaths • Can't Possibly Be True • All cultures are equal!? • Government in Action! • Least Competent Criminals; Freedom Under Attack? • British Scared-y Cats; Really!? • Perspective; The Aristocrat! • Family Values • Bright Ideas; Movie Scenes Come to Life • The Continuing Crisis • Feelings first?; This Will Hurt for Only a Second • Least Competent Criminals • Unclear on the Concept; Leading Economic Indicator • Can't Possibly Be True! • The Role of Alcohol in Parenting; Best Water Ever • Least Competent Criminals; No Longer Weird • Cultural Diversity • Urinal Technology • Questionable Judgments • Undignified Deaths; stupid is as stupid does • Leading Economic Indicators • The Entrepreneurial Spirit • Critters' World • Radical Science • The newest human right; Really!? • Hyper-Sensitive Litigants • The Way the World Works • Well, that certainly explains it! • Ironies • Seeing Isn't Believing; more from America's most prolific litigant • Least Competent Criminals; Government in Action • Police Report • Great, ahem, Art!? • Movie Cliche Come to Life (and Death); Culinary Sleight of Pan • Have a crackpot idea? Get government funding! • People Different From Us; Least Competent Criminals • The Continuing Crisis • Not So Bright Ideas • Sounds Like a Joke • Oops! • To the Ninth Ring of Hell! • Privacy kept private; It's in there --- well, somewhere • Chinese High-Tech Answer to Red Bull • Bless Those Researchers' Hearts! • Unclear on the Concept • Can't Possibly Be True! • Respect all cultures!? • Chutzpah! • Even Mass Murderers Need Friends; Wait --- That's Illegal? • Pet Mania • Studies that nobody should a #%@*&! about • Challenging Business Models • Leading Economic Indicators • Least Competent Terrorists; The (Cockroach) Social Network • Obsession; Yup, there's a lawsuit for that • Things Leaders Believe • Ironies • Ah, so that explains it! • In Sickness and in Health, But Not in Triviality and Tackiness • Crime Does/Doesn't Pay • Great Architecture! • Least Competent Criminals • Creme de la Weird; Stupid is, as stupid does • Government in Action! • Laziness Made Us Fat, and Laziness Will Make Us Slim; The Aristocrat! • Least Competent Criminals; raining dollars • Name that baby --- on second thought, don't you dare!; no, sh-- • Morality madness; java jinks; martial-ing fraud • In China, smells and spells • They just don't get it! • Least Competent Criminals • Too Bright Ideas • The Continuing Crisis • Gentlemen, Start Your Engines ... and Your Stereos; People Different From Us • People With Issues; Least Competent Criminals • Fine Points of the Law • Love redefined; Questionable judgments • Unclear on the Concept • Can't Possibly Be True! • Least Competent Bank!;The Ultimate Gated Community • Least Competent Criminals; Law on Planet Florida • No Spectators Allowed; You Snooze (Even for a Split-Second), You Lose • Questionable Judgments • Respect all cultures!? • Least Competent Criminals • The Continuing Crisis; Trail-Blazing Science • Leading Economic Indicators • Animal Tales • Trail-Blazing Science; Fast-Food Culture Shock • Justice -- literally -- gone to the dogs! • Least Competent Criminals • You can't make this stuff up! • Ironies • Could Be True. Maybe Not. • French Full-Body Health Care; Fine Points of the Law • Least Competent Criminals; Undignified Deaths • People With Issues; Pennsylvania Bites? • Huh!? • Great, ahem, Art! • Government in Action! • Least Competent Criminals; Recurring Themes • People With Issues; It's Everywhere! • The Classic Middle Name (all-new!) • The Continuing Crisis • Gift for real-life daughter of fake 'doll'; Find this, GPS users --- common sense • Least Competent Criminals • Creme de la Weird; Armed and Clumsy (all new!) • Unclear on the Concept • Inexplicable; Who Knew Restrooms Were So Complicated? • Can't Possibly Be True! • Least Competent Criminals; Obsessions • Questionable Judgments • Respect all cultures!? • Questionable Judgments • Leading Economic Indicators? • Least Competent Criminals; What, no 'lactation discrimination'!? • Can't Possibly Be True!; Medical Marvels • The Entrepreneurial Spirit • The Weirdo-American Community; Bright Ideas • Least Competent Spies; Compelling Explanations • Latest Human Rights --- including for non-humans • Damned lovers; Great, ahem, Art! • Ironies • Bright Ideas • Don't mess with this mayor; Least Competent Criminals • News That Sounds Like a Joke; Pet This • Great, ahem, Art! • Government in Action! • Their parents must have hated them; Awesome! • Least Competent Criminals • Do names portend the future?; HUH!? • The Way the World Works • (Fore)Sight from the Afterlife; No Common Cents. Er, Pence • The Force Is NOT With You • Least Competent Criminals • Looney law? • Games morons play • Can't Possibly Be True! • Inexplicable; 'Dementiaville' • Oops!; Least Competent Criminals • Separation of 'church' and reality?; Chutzpah! • The District of Calamity? • Respect all cultures!? • Our %$#$%%$ government! • Victimized perps • Medical Marvels? • That Entrepreneurial Spirit! • Crooks Not Ready for Prime Time • A hoo-hoo done it?; Dawn of an idea saved commuters $ 12 million • Well, it ALMOST worked • Can't make this stuff up! • Even More Ironies • Ironies • Anti-Theft ID Breakthrough; No 'Individual Mandate' • Undignified Deaths • Over-competent criminals; Least Competent Criminals • Drones even a liberal could love; And you thought American bureaucracy was bad! • Cliches Come to Life • Clean living in extreme; deserving of an a(commode)ation? • A bloody - but holy!? - mess?; No Longer Weird? • Least Competent Criminals; bang a bong for the boring • When criminality is stranger than fiction; People with issues • Shrink, heal thyself; how to get your Destined One to send you to the slammer • Man bites (eats) . . .; snarky headline should have gone here • If only the pol had followed her own law; neighbor (belongs in) hell • If he only hadn't had a brain; defining bureaucracy, painfully • Australia: Leader in men's rights?; substitute predators found, thankfully • When women harass; to protect and rape • Cone (headed) logic for homeland security; Attention Walmart geniuses • Still weird: Updates, Part II • Still weird: Updates, Part I • Tampon tippling now practiced by males?; it ain't just bullet-proof stockings, anymore • Idiot gets arrested and sued after reenacting urban legend; Choked-up (and out) • When Tattoos Aren't Nearly Enough; jail birds who aren't • The Pervo-American Community; locked-up loser • Undignified Deaths • Is it the law that an an . . . or the judges --- Lessons in Proportionality • Pathetic losers • Can't Possibly Be True! • Absolutely Least Competent Criminal • Creme de la Weird • All cultures are equal!? • The next time the kids complain about their school … • Hallucination and delusion competition; Bright Ideas • Creme de la Weird • Hey, What's ‘Good News’ Doing in ‘News of the Weird’? • HUH!? • Our Animal Overlords • Wait . . . What!?; Cutting-Edge Science • Least Competent Criminals • Our Litigious Society • Ironies • Reigning cats and . . . replacing man • Well, that certainly explains it • Least Competent Criminals • Recent Alarming Headlines • Almost too-good-to-be-true police reports • Great, ahem, Art! • Government for the People!? • Armed and Clumsy (All-New!) • Bright Ideas • Cutting-Edge Tactics? • Society's collective yelp for help • Casualties in the culture-war?; bloody sick • Unclear on the Concept • Ultimate Catfighting; Mixed Evidence on Smoking • Do names portend the future?; Hey, It Could've Happened • Can't Possibly Be True! • You can't be trusted not to hurt yourself, citizens! • They warp faith • Inscrutable Asians • HUH!? • Questionable Judgments • Leading Economic Indicators; A News of the Weird Classic (January 1995) • DMV Is a Dangerous Place • The Entrepreneurial Spirit! • Weird Science; Recent Alarming Headlines • What passes for cutting-edge fashion; Least Competent Criminals • Compelling Explanations; Unclear on the Concept • The Litigious Society • Oh, the sweet irony!; Least Competent Criminals • Bureaucrat's Delight; Creme de la Weird • News That Sounds Like a Joke; (Very) Undignified Death • Great, ahem, Art! • Government in Action! • A ride to die for --- literally!; Least Competent Criminals • Fine Points of the Law • People Different From Us • The Continuing Crisis • Risky Business Models; News of the Self-Indulgent • Oops!; ‘Sorry, Honey. I Was Aiming at the Dog’ • No Respect • Unclear on the Concept • Don't read on a full stomach; Inexplicable • Can't Possibly Be True! • Direct Pipelines from the Pentagon to U.S. Enemies • This can't be true! • All cultures are equal!? • People With Issues; Least Competent Criminals • The perfect marriage?; heavenly points for trying? • Pervs on Parade; Least Competent People • HUH!???? • Our Animal Sidekicks • No, Thanks! • For Self-Indulgent Crackpots • The Pervo-American Community; Least Competent Criminals • The Continuing Crisis • Compelling Explanations? • Ironies • Government turns TLC into crime, fine • The Pervo-American Community; truly bizarre historical trivia • Coincidence?; Catch-22; Unclear on the Concept • Jobs-for-life; Bats' Rights • Government in Action! • Ironic twist on ‘affirmative action’; Ah, art! • Names in the News (For Immature Readers Only, Please!); Pathetic losers • The continuing crisis, con't; The Pervo-American Community • The Continuing Crisis • New meaning for ‘adult toy’; OOPS! Wrong crime • THE NERVE! • Police Blotter • Recent Confusing Headlines; People With Issues • Unclear on the Concept • Can't Possibly Be True! • Respect all cultures!?; screwed for something he didn't • Least Competent Criminals; He's full of . . . . • MORE Questionable Judgments • Questionable Judgments • Cultural Diversity • White men can …; Cutting-Edge Research • Undignified Deaths; Recurring Themes • People Different From Us --- And Most!; Leading Economic Indicators • Civilization in Decline: Growing Up Early • The Entrepreneurial Spirit! • Life lessons for make-believe world; Armed and Clumsy (all-new!) • Recurring Themes; Update • You just had to open that yap of yours, didn't you!? • Ironies • Fan-atic$; Unclear on the Concept • Easily Offended • Criminals With Chutzpah; Least Competent Non-Criminals • Almost (Deservedly) Dead in Bed; Gee, whiz genius; They Call it Art! • More of your Government in Action! • Government in Action! • The Aristocrats! • Oops! • The Continuing Crisis • Bright Ideas • OOPS! • People With Issues • News That Sounds Like a Joke; Inexplicable • Can't Possibly Be True!, II • Can't Possibly Be True! • T-moo-I!; Unclear on the Concept • Creme de la Weird; Least Competent Gun-Handling • HUH!?; Questionable Judgments • Our screwed-up world • The Classic Middle Name (all-new!); Unclear on the Concept • Least Competent Patient; Rights of the Disabled • Procreation Interventions; Weird Animals • Who says we're in a recession!?; Navel Observatory • Fine Points of the Law; Medical Marvels • How the Saudis hold beauty contests; The Entrepreneurial Spirit!; Noses Know • Cliche Come to Life; art!?; worse • I Demand My Rights!; Signs of the Times • Compelling Explanations; 'Wrong' Impressions • Ironies • Least Competent Criminals • HUH!? • When government bombs; Bizarre ‘art’ • Chutzpah! • Pakistan finds a use for ‘transgendered’; People With Issues • Least Competent Criminals; Usual consequence for an unqualified student • Why Unions Are Unpopular; Score One for Death Penalty Advocates • Those who don't know when to shut their yap • Overreaching • Oops!; Wheeee! • Least Competent Criminals; Last Words • Inexplicable • HUH!? • Can't Possibly Be True! • Zero Tolerance?; Willing to go to Indonesia to cure for emphysema? • FANatic; what a putz — literally! • The ultimate loser; chutzpah X2 • Illegals become animals; When ‘grow up!’ is not just a rebuke • 'Good Housekeeping' for the bomber set; evolutionary hardiness in American drinkers? • In case you are getting sentenced; when a ‘best friend’ betrays • Clever victim outwits thief • Do names portend the future? • Questionable Judgments • They are definitely not US! • Smooth Reactions; Least Competent Criminals • People With Too Much Money • The Entrepreneurial Spirit: Product Giveaways • Weird Science • Whoever said life is fair? • Creme de la Weird; The Litigious Society • Ironies • Least Competent Criminals; Classic weirdness • News That Sounds Like a Joke; The Weirdo-American Community • Pathetic creeps • Government in Action! • People Different From Us; Least Competent Criminals Not Ready for Prime Time • Not So Bright Ideas • No Sense of Shame! • Yikes! • Change, the old fashioned way; Another ‘Sovereign’ Citizen • Elusive Perps; The Country Afraid of Its Own Shadow • More ‘Can't Possibly Be True!’ • Inexplicable • Can't Possibly Be True • Things that make say ‘HUH!?’ • Least Competent Criminals; Classic • SICK! 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SICK! • Questionable Judgments • All cultures are equal? • Feeeeeeeh! • Least Competent Criminals; She's repulsive, they're jealous • The Entrepreneurial Spirit; Not Your Father's Scotch • Science on the Cutting Edge • Privacy v. ‘art’; The Continuing Crisis • Recurring Themes; A News of the Weird Classic • People With Issues; Least Competent Criminals • Economics and witchcraft; Ironies • From victims to tourist attractions; Wacky lawsuit • Compelling Explanations • Least Competent Criminals; People Who Ran Over Themselves • Surprise!; 'That Was Easy!' • Government in Action! • Bizarre ‘art’ • Getting Old, Young; from the archives • Undignified Deaths • Bright Ideas; Least Competent Criminals • Oops!; Failed to Think It Through • The Continuing Crisis; Beloved Banker • The ear has a ‘G-spot’ • Respect for All Cultures? • First Things First • Questionable State Regulation; Can't Possibly Be True • Unclear on the Concept; Least Competent Criminals • Where down is up; Can't Possibly Be True • Least Competent Criminals; Things that Make You Say: Huh!? • News That Sounds Like a Joke • Cultural Diversity; eggs-ellent! 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