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Can’t Possibly Be True

A Web site based in Seattle shamelessly encourages pedophiles to look all they want at kids (and gives tips for where the sightseeing is best), as long as they don’t touch, and police admitted to Fox News in March that so far, that’s not illegal. Said founder Jack McClellan, 45 (whose preference is for girls […]

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Least Competent Criminals

Anthony Perone, 20, pleaded guilty in March in Connecticut in connection with two stalking letters he admitted mailing to a woman he had fallen for in the third grade but who apparently had spurned him. The rambling, incoherent letters explicitly threatened death, and Perone had intended to send them anonymously, in that he wrote no […]

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Readers’ Choice

In March, a British Airways economy-class passenger on a flight from Delhi, India, died onboard, and the corpse was moved to the less-congested first-class section, to the chagrin of Paul Trinder, who had paid the equivalent of about $6,000 for his nearby seat. When he complained, he said he was told just to “get over […]

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Review: ‘Cats’ beats a cat nap

Instead of cat napping this weekend, head downtown and check out a Tony Award-winning musical at the Civic Center Music Hall in downtown Oklahoma City and watch the claws come out. The larger than life musical “Cats,” based on T.S. Elliot’s book “Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats, is the longest running musical here in […]

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Preserve That Porn

It looked like just another case of a man’s hoarding junk in his apartment and providing a home for several hundred animals (in this case, pigeons and mice), but health officials in Toronto learned in a March raid that the resident was lucid enough to protect, from animal feces, his extensive collection of pornography by […]

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Creme de la Weird

In March, police in Trenton, N.J., arrested four men in separate incidents and learned that they fancy themselves as “diplomats” from the Abannaki Indigenous Nation and claim immunity from the laws of the “so-called planet Earth” (and, by the way, of Mars and Venus, as well). One allegedly possessed an unidentified “controlled substance,” and the […]

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Safety First!

Britain’s Health and Safety agency headquarters reportedly posted signs in various locations in the building warning workers not to attempt to move chairs and tables by themselves, but to call for porters (for which 48 hours’ notice was required). (In April, London’s Daily Mail reported, not surprisingly, that the agency’s workplace injury record was very […]

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Spider-Man 3

Reviewer’s grade: B A comic-book flick is well-insulated from film criticism. When the movie boasts full-blooded characterization, as is the case with the “Spider-Man” franchise, it earns kudos for ambition. If it serves up eye-popping action, also part of “Spider-Man,” it’s praised for preserving the spirit of the source material. And when it occasionally stumbles […]

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Bobby

2006 If a movie’s success was determined by good intentions alone, “Bobby” would’ve been a box-office blockbuster. Writer-director Emilio Estevez fictionalizes more than a dozen story threads at Los Angeles’ Ambassador Hotel on June 5, 1968 “? the day Robert Kennedy fell to an assassin’s bullet “? but that tragic death is chiefly used as […]

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