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Entries from March 2007
March 30, 2007
Friday’s Random Ten
1. Ten Pins – The Connells
2. Hallelujah – John Cale
3. Know Your Rights – The Clash
4. Headshrinker – Oasis
5. White Spots – Marty Wilson-Piper
6. The Pogues – Lullaby of London
7. O’Stockholm – Marty Wilson-Piper
8. Knowing People – Matthew Sweet
9. Sinnerman – Nina Simone
10. Attitude – The [...]
March 29, 2007
British Teacher Murdered in Japan
Police on Tuesday were searching for a 28-year-old Japanese man who fled from his apartment where the body of a 22-year-old British woman was found in a bathtub on the balcony. Police have issued a warrant for the man, Tatsuya Ichihashi. The woman, who was identified as Lindsay Ann Hawker, worked as a teacher for [...]
March 27, 2007
Smugglers Force Passengers Into Stormy Seas
This is a horrible story:
SANA, YEMEN — Human smugglers sailing from Somalia to Yemen forced hundreds of illegal immigrants overboard in stormy seas in an effort to escape security forces quickly, officials said Monday. Thirty-one bodies were found, and nearly 90 people remained missing.
Passengers who resisted the smugglers were stabbed or beaten with wooden and [...]
March 27, 2007
Speak No Evil
Monica Goodling (pictured above), a 1999 graduate of Regent University School of Law, has decided to plead the fifth in regards to the US Attorney Firing Scandal. This just raises questions as to what criminal conduct she may have committed, does it not?
Aside from exposing more corruption and malfeasance from the Bush administration, [...]
March 27, 2007
The Hunt for the Homeland of Odysseus
ATHENS, Greece – A geological engineering company said Monday it has agreed to help in an archaeological project to find the island of Ithaca, homeland of Homer’s legendary hero Odysseus.
It has long been thought that the island of Ithaki in the Ionian Sea was the island Homer used as a setting for the epic poem [...]
March 27, 2007
Modest Mouse’s Sinking Ship
Modest Mouse (now with legendary guitarist Johnny Marr) has a new nautical-themed album entitled We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank. The first single, Dashboard, is a catchy little number featuring salty dogs taking a voyage to the Sargasso Sea:
Album review.
March 26, 2007
Another Expat Prison Memoir, This One Re Korea
Diane Rehm interviews an American who spent 3.5 years in a Korean prison for smuggling hashish into the ROK.
At age 23, Cullen Thomas was arrested in Seoul and sentenced to three-and-one-half years in prison for smuggling hashish into the country. He provides a view of South Korean society few Americans will ever see and describes [...]
March 26, 2007
Marriage, Korean Style
SEOUL, South Korea — When two young television stars called it quits only 12 days after their wedding recently, their very public and acrimonious divorce shined a rare spotlight on the underside of marriage in South Korea.
Lying in a hospital bed with a broken nose, Lee Min-young accused her husband, Lee Chan, of domestic violence, [...]
March 26, 2007
Don’t Fall Out of the Boat
GALVESTON, Texas – A man and woman fell overboard from a cruise ship in the Gulf of Mexico early Sunday, but both were rescued after a four-hour search and appeared to be in good condition, a cruise line spokeswoman said. The 22-year-old man and 20-year-old woman fell 50 to 60 feet from a cabin [...]










