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- Butt Seriously
- Photograph purportedly shows Michelle Obama with Princess Letizia and Carla Bruni-Sarkozy.
- Present Progressive
- Has Progressive Insurance chairman Peter Lewis donated millions of dollars to the ACLU and liberal political causes?
- Speech Therapy
- Transcript purportedly reproduces a high school principal's speech to students and faculty at the beginning of a new school year.
- Flesh Potted
- Does a Berlin restaurant plan to offer meals made from human body parts?
- Flood Control
- Thief drowns in submerged pool after looting the home of disaster victims.
- License to Squeal
- Can you look up anyone's driver's license for free through the 'National Motor Vehicle Licence Organization' web site?
- Capped Well
- The "collecting plastic water bottle caps for charity" misunderstanding strikes again, this time at a U.S. military base in Afghanistan.
- No, Virginia, There Is No Obama/Kagan Connection
- Case example: Information is useless to those determined not to read it.
- Eat a Peach
- Was the Allman Brothers' album title 'Eat a Peach' a reference to Duane Allman's fatal motorcycle accident?
- A House Divided
- Was the Pentagon built with extra bathrooms to accommodate racial segregation laws?
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