Archaeologists didn’t know bra-like garments existed in the 15th century
Police: 5 suspected of stealing 9.5 tons of garlic - AP
Police say the garlic apparently came from Spain and estimate its value at $37,500
115-year-old turtles divorce after 36 years of 'marriage' - TheDC
The animal kingdom’s oldest married couple appears to have called it quits
Austrian village to change its f*cking name - TheDC
Residents have complained that tourists have been stealing their street signs and prank calling them
Oil drops below $99 ahead of OPEC meeting - AP
A senior member of an OPEC delegation said oil ministers had agreed to keep present production at around 30 million barrels a day
'Pastafarian' claims pasta strainer as religious headgear - TheDC
Austrian member of Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster wins right to wear sieve in driver’s license photo
Rock and roll suicide: How Allan Bloom killed conservatism
By deriding rock music for being “masturbational,” Bloom did a disservice to conservatism.
Being Hitler - AP
Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler liked to have bread and marmalade for breakfast and was described as mild-mannered during personal exchanges
Austrian kidnap victim details ordeal in new book - AP
Priklopil snatched Kampusch off a Vienna street on her way to school in 1998 and held her prisoner in a dungeon until she fled in August 2006
Alvin Greene hires extremists as campaign staff - Columbia Free-Press
The Warren Group has sued the CIA and the DOJ for allowing drugs into poor communities
U.N. overcrowded jails breeding AIDS - AP
U.N. authority warned Friday the prevalence of HIV in prisons due to use of non-sterile equipment, sexual contacts, and sharing of objects among too many prisoners
Tinfoil Porsche runs on pedal power - Wired
Austrian artist builds a replica Porsche that is powered by bicycle
A nation of immigrants
We will be the best only as long as our workers and entrepreneurs are the best trained, best equipped, and best incentivized to continually perfect processes and innovate. America is exceptional among nations in that it is almost totally a nation of immigrants
Vienna is number one - Guardian
The capitol of the former Holy Roman Empire retains some of its divinity, as it is rated the ‘highest quality of living’ in the world
Australia proposes banning fancy cigarette packaging - LA Times
Measure for plain packages would be first of its kind in world
Solving Europe's problems - redraw the map - The Economist
The Economist: ‘Rejigging the map of Europe would make life more logical and friendlier’
Veiled truths: Europe, the burqa and the myth of cosmopolitanism
If Europe is hell-bent on clinging to its Islamophobia, it may well pay for its suspicions by discovering what it expects
Concealed carry: 21st Century style - American Rifleman
A review of nine compact .380 semi-automatic handguns
Dispatches from Vancouver, Vol. VI: Requiem for a games
The last few days of the Olympics passed by in a blur as I finished a three-week business trip that ended up taking me to four climates and nine different overnight locations, all without checking bags. And my gallivanting around the West paralleled the North American tour de force that the games became.
Ronald Reagan and the Fall of Communism
"The fall of the [Soviet] empire," former Czech president Vaclav Havel wrote, "is an event on the same scale of historical importance as the fall of the Roman Empire." It is true that Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev repudiated the Brezhnev Doctrine–that the Soviet Union will use force if necessary to ensure
