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Apr '06
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A Great Leap Forward in Censorship
By: Dawn Ivory
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Apropos of Dawn's first two items comes news from China that the charmingly monickered "Shenzhen City Public Security Bureau's Internet Surveillance Centre" has introduced the
internet icons "Jingjing" and "Chacha" (whose names are made up of the Chinese characters for "police") to remind 'net users that the government (with tech help from Google...) is always watching. |
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Apr '06
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Do They Wear Brown Shirts?
By: Dawn Ivory
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In Bethesda, Maryland, patrons at the Little Falls library were startled as two uniformed men entered the reading room and made a loud announcement that viewing pornography on
library computers was verboten. |
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Mar '06
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They've Got Your Number
By: Dawn Ivory
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Annoyed by automated phone systems wherein it seems impossible to talk to a human being? |
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Mar '06
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The Pope on Love
By: Dawn Ivory
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It's no secret that Dawn doesn't have much kind to say about Ratzi, the new Pope. |
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Mar '06
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Nervous? Have a Shag!
By: Dawn Ivory
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Scottish scientists have suggested that sex is a great stress reliever (duh) and has salutory effects on elevated blood pressure (at least, as measured after the sex...). |
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Mar '06
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At Last
By: Dawn Ivory
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Dawn was pleased to receive an email notice about www.sexoff.net, a site dedicated to organizing so-called "sex offenders" to oppose the manifold unjustices such folk
face. |
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Feb '06
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'Are You Being Served' Premiers
By: Dawn Ivory
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Dawn was pleased to catch PBS's recent broadcast of the pilot of the British comedy "Are You Being Served?" |
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Jan '06
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Plus ça change...
By: Dawn Ivory
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Dawn's mother out-of-law recently lent Dawn Edmund Morris's
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt. |
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Jan '06
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Think Pink!
By: Dawn Ivory
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When Dawn was eight years old, Dawn's family moved across the country. |
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Jan '06
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Presidential Library Destroyed?
By: Dawn Ivory
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Dawn passes along an unverified news item emailed by a loyal reader in Nashville, Tennessee.... |
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Jan '06
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No Comment
By: Dawn Ivory
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His primary rules were: never allow the public to cool off; never admit a fault or wrong... |
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Dec '05
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Blame Eve
By: Dawn Ivory
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Normally, medical advances sparing people premature death would be welcomed. But some Christians understand that God put microbes on the Earth in order to punish those who rub their naughty bits too much, or in the wrong place. |
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Dec '05
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Man Sweat, Pig Spit, and Truffles
By: Dawn Ivory
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For those readers who may have wondered why gourmands are willing to fork over big bucks for the fancy funguses known as truffles (sometimes up to $100,000 per pound!), Dawn now has an answer rooted in sound biological realities. |
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Dec '05
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The Shocking Horror
By: Dawn Ivory
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Nothing-- and Dawn means nothing-- can be worse for a teen boy than being fooled into thinking he enjoys sex. Dawn knows this to be true since the law reserves its harshest punishments for those who subject adolescent males to this horror. |
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Nov '05
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Toilet Time
By: Dawn Ivory
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Regular readers of Dirty Dishes know of Dawn's fascination with all things toilet related. So an extra-special thanks to the thoughtful reader who directed Dawn to www.bog-standard.org. |
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Nov '05
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Only in America
By: Dawn Ivory
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Dawn has watched as countless gold-diggers across the country have sought both lucre and their 15 minutes in the spotlight by suing priests who supposedly winked at them sometime during the Eisenhower
administration. But news from the New York Post simply astounds. |
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Nov '05
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News From Prezdunt Bush's Home State
By: Dawn Ivory
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Dining contractor Aramark has removed coffee cups printed with a writer's quote from a Starbucks at Baylor University, in Waco (rhymes with "whacko"), Texas, saying it is inappropriate for the Baptist school-- because
the author was gay. |
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Oct '05
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Every Man, Woman, Child, & Nursing Home Resident for Themselves...
By: Dawn Ivory
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Dawn has always liked the expression, "That's rich," meaning that whatever's being referred to is dripping with irony. |
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Oct '05
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Clothes Make the Man
By: Dawn Ivory
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Oct '05
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A Penile Catch-22
By: Dawn Ivory
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Thanks also to the reader who emailed Dawn news from Germany about the arrest of an inspired graffiti artist. |
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Sep '05
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Duh
By: Dawn Ivory
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Dawn has got to credit President Bush with consistency-- he rejects reality wherever he finds it. Most recently, it is the science of biology that has had to yield before Bush's
"faith-based" beliefs. |
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Aug '05
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Notes from Jesusland
By: Dawn Ivory
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News comes from Nashville that a couple has received two years probation for hiring a stripper for their son's 16th birthday party. |
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Aug '05
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Stamp Out Freedom
By: Dawn Ivory
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Dawn has heard from a source of questionable authority that the US Postal Service is having trouble with the new George W. Bush postage stamp, created to honor his
first-term achievements. |
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Jul '05
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Shame on Pride
By: Dawn Ivory
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The vapidization of gay pride events was neatly demonstrated this year in San Francisco where pride sponsor KRON-TV demanded that politician/comedian
Tom Ammiano be canned as co-commentator for the June 26 festivities. |
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Jul '05
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Left Blowing in the Wind...
By: Dawn Ivory
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Thanks to the reader who sent a blurb from the Orlando
Sentinel, detailing that Mickey Mouse-burg's plans to deny sex offenders access to shelters
during hurricanes (Dawn cannot make this stuff up). |
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Jul '05
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Sherlock Homo?
By: Dawn Ivory
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Two readers in Ontario mailed Dawn press items about a statute in Toronto that has raised some hackles. The 13-1/2 foot bronze and granite monument
depicts Alexander Wood, famous for both owning the land on which the community now sits, and for being run out of town under a cloud of sexual scandal in the
early 1800s. |
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Jun '05
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Driving While Gay
By: Dawn Ivory
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If a squib from the Gay People's
Chronicle (Cleveland) is to be believed, cops in Dayton, Ohio, appear to be stopping men for "driving while gay," an allusion to the well-established
police practice of stopping swarthier drivers for "driving while black." |
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Jun '05
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Who's Beta Dog?
By: Dawn Ivory
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Management of the media has evidently inched even higher on the Republikans' agenda. |
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Jun '05
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Empty the Jails!
By: Dawn Ivory
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Dawn has read that homosexuals in West Hollywood are planning to honor a couple of deputies from the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department at this June's gay pride wingding. |
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May '05
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Toilet Technology
By: Dawn Ivory
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Dawn thanks the two readers sending news about the upcoming "World Toilet Expo 2005" to be held in Shanghai, May 8-10, 2005. According to www.worldtoilet.org, "Gracious Living for a Model City" is the theme of this first-ever event. Co-organized by the World Toilet
Organisation, the World Toilet Expo is a "dedicated industry platform" to be held concurrently with the long-standing World Toilet Forum: "Besides a showcase of the latest products and services, a large array of innovative solutions for the restroom and hygiene industry will be on display, and
the Forum will offer an outstanding distinguished panel of speakers." |
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