Just downloaded 2 years in the forbidden city to my palmtop… it’ll be easier to tate than the printed out version.

words of the day – (I seek to be neither)

timorous TIM-ur-us, adjective:
1. Full of apprehensiveness; timid; fearful.
2. Indicating, or caused by, fear.

The source of timorous is Latin timor, “fear.”

choleric (KOHL-uhr-ik) adjective

Easily irritated or angered: hot-tempered.

[Middle English colerik, from Latin cholericus, from Greek cholerikos.]

And now, the evil news.

The Most Jaded Man In America
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A New Jersey man may be a million dollars richer — but he doesn’t believe it, and apparently doesn’t want to be bothered.
Officials at H&R Block, the company that prepares people’s income tax returns, says the man has until Friday to claim his prize or they will give it to
somebody else.
“It is certainly an odd occurrence, but we are hoping that, by making every attempt to contact him, as well as going to the media and pleading with him to
claim this prize, is that we will indeed have a happy ending to this promotion,” said Janine Smiley, a company spokeswoman.

Life for Addict Who Buried Father Alive
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A heroin addict who bludgeoned his father with a hammer and then buried him alive has been jailed for life.
Kenny Wilkins, 22, attacked his 47-year-old father Kenneth Wilkins and dumped his body in a rubbish tip where they both worked.
Wilkins, of Shard End, Birmingham, used cash taken from his father’s body to buy drugs and pay off a £200 debt.
Birmingham Crown Court was packed with members of Mr Wilkins family who sat in silence as the prosecution detailed the brutal attack by his son.
The court heard Mr Wilkins had received seven hammer blows to his body and had fractures on his hands and arms where he had tried to fend off the blows.
When the prosecutor gave details of the bruises on Mr Wilkins’ body, which showed he had been alive when he was buried, members of his family broke down in tears and some left the court.

Kids Curse On Old Lady Works!
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An elderley woman has died following a confrontation with a group of children at her home in Lancashire.
Sheila Bridge, 62, collapsed within minutes of contacting the police about youngsters causing a disturbance near her sheltered accommodation in Nelson.

Kill and Cull
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China has denied allegations of harvesting and selling the body parts of executed prisoners, sometimes before the donors were clinically dead.
The allegations were made by a Chinese doctor, Wang Guoqi, during testimony to U.S. lawmakers Wednesday, where he described coordinated procedures between surgeons and Chinese government officials to extract convicts’ organs immediately after executions.

New Japanese Fetish
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“My undies? It’s a pain changing them sometimes. You know, like after you’ve stayed at a friend’s place, you don’t change ’em much,” 16-year-old Yumi says.
“But … I do make sure I use a protective sheet for secretions so my panties don’t get dirty.”
Kyoko, a 17-year-old Tokyo teen, tells a similar story.
“It costs a lot to buy underwear if you’re away from home for two or three days, right? That’s why I always used the protective sheets,” Kyoko says. “But I’ve stopped using them now. I used to leak a real lot of fluids. My panties would get all crunchy and the hairs would stick to them. It really hurt when I changed my undies.”

Mom Of Ugly Kid Goes On Rampage
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A lingering argument about the attractiveness of a baby ended Thursday night with a New Orleans woman being booked with attempted murder in connection with dousing 10 people — including two infants and a pregnant woman — with gasoline and then attempting to set them afire.
Cynthia Brown Brady, 32, of 8616 Colapissa St. was booked with 10 counts of attempted first-degree murder, 10 counts of attempted aggravated arson, criminal damage in the amount of $70 and trespassing, said Lt. Marlon Defillo, a New Orleans Police Department spokesman.

Pete Sampras Makes Move On Young Boy
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In front of a suddenly uneasy audience inside Court One, Pete Sampras revealed questionable judgment and taste Friday during his interaction with a ball boy during his third-round victory. Serving in the second set, Sampras began to charge toward the net when he slipped a few feet inside the baseline. As he fell down, the service return by Sargis Sargsian bounced and darted up into the left leg of Sampras’ shorts. Lying on the grass court laughing for several seconds, Sampras sat up with the ball lodged between his legs inside his shorts and looked over toward a ball boy. He smiled, crooked his finger and motioned for the school-aged boy to come toward him. The boy, visibly nervous, approached Sampras, who then touched the ball inside his shorts and asked the boy if he wanted to retrieve it.
“He can pick up the ball if he wants. He declined. I guess he didn’t want to go up my shorts.”

Fatties Are Funny and Its Okay To Point It Out.
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Clearly, studios have concluded that grossly overweight people make audiences laugh. They howl when Fat Bastard grunts, “Get in my belly,” or when a lean Eddie Murphy morphs into a plump Klump.
Yet some people aren’t laughing.
“Unfortunately, it’s funny to people,” said Dr. Lisa Berzins, director of women’s behavior medicine and the eating-disorder program at Manchester Memorial Hospital in Hartford, Conn. “For people who struggle with their weight, it’s not funny at all. The sad thing is people will pay more attention to a person dressed up in a fat suit than a fat person.”
Berzins says that fat suits send the message to society that it’s OK to make fun of overweight people.