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Small suburb fights too-low pants
News – The Chicago suburb of Lynwood is one the latest communities around the nation to address the gaping problem of exposed underwear. Village leaders passed an ordinance last week stating that people caught exposing…
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This story has mostly positive ratings. 23 votes / No sinks
Billy Joel and Paul McCartney at Shea Stadium
Music – Performing the last show ever at Shea prior to the stadium's demolition, Billy Joel brings out village elder Paul McCartney for a rocking finale. Fun! (Yes, Sir Paul plays his trusty Hofner.)
This story has mostly positive ratings. 203 votes / 2 sinks
Propeller Week In Review: July 18, 2008
News – Petroleum was very much on the mind of the Propeller community this week. But so was Karl Rove, gay rights, and a certain, extremely charming jackass.
This story has mostly positive ratings. 15 votes / No sinks
CJR: Don't Bean Count Me
News – I'd love for every single reporter, from the tiny three-reporter office in a small town in Ohio to the Los Angeles Times and The Washington Post, to lay down their pens and notebooks, turn off their computers and…
This story has mostly positive ratings. 14 votes / No sinks
8-Foot Python Found In Gorham Woman's Washing Machine
News – A Gorham woman got the shock of her life when she found an 8-foot snake mixed in with clothes in her washing machine. The reticulated python somehow got into Mara Ranger's 1800s-era farmhouse and made its way into…
This story has mostly positive ratings. 13 votes / No sinks
Loving John McCain
News – The deep-seated media denial of McCain's extremist policies and addiction to political expediency mask the fact that his victory in November would result in a continuation--and even, in some instances, an expansion--of…
This story has mostly positive ratings. 13 votes / No sinks
Freed Lebanese prisoners vow to fight Israel
News – Five militants freed in a prisoner swap with Israel prayed and laid wreaths at the grave of a slain Hezbollah commander Thursday, vowing to fight Israel as supporters showered them with rice.
This story has mostly positive ratings. 12 votes / No sinks
CJR: Pyrrhic Victory
News – Just a few months ago, in April of this year, the Guantanamo Bay detainee Salim Hamdan appeared before the Navy captain acting as his military judge, and announced that he would boycott the war-crimes trial the…
This story has mostly positive ratings. 11 votes / No sinks
Seven, stupid, simple ways to be green and save green
Do No Evil – Here's seven very easy ways to go green. Most are centered around water conservation and make sense.
This story has mostly positive ratings. 16 votes / No sinks
Man's nose bitten off in brawl at drive-thru
Do No Evil – A 38-year-old carpenter was jailed this week after police accused him of biting off most of a man's nose during a fight at the Burger King on Folly Road.
This story has mostly positive ratings. 166 votes / 2 sinks
Propeller Week In Review: July 11, 2008
News – After a patriotic intermission last week, WIR returns, with red-hot stories about the FISA bill, the war in Iraq, the departure of Jesse Helms--and a (fictional) apologia from Rod the Mod.
This story has mostly positive ratings. 48 votes / No sinks
Turkey catches suspect in US consulate attack
News – A news agency says police have caught a fugitive gunman wanted in connection with the attack on the U.S. consulate in Istanbul, Turkey. The private Dogan news agency says the man who fled the scene amid the chaos…
This story has mostly positive ratings. 70 votes / No sinks
Washington struggles to avoid a federal bailout of Fannie…
News – Top officials in Washington struggled Thursday to reassure the markets about the financial health of the nation's two largest mortgage finance companies as their stock prices plunged to their lowest levels in 17…
This story has mostly positive ratings. 49 votes / 1 sink
Tehran leaves no room for doubt
News – Just in case there was any ambiguity about Iran's missile test today in the Hormuz Straits, the air force chief, General Hossein Salami, put any lingering uncertainty to rest. Salami said the tests of long- and…
This story has mostly positive ratings. 50 votes / No sinks
6 die in attack on U.S. Consulate in Istanbul
News – A group of unidentified gunmen opened fire Wednesday on Turkish security guards outside the U.S. Consulate in Istanbul, the Turkish authorities said, and at least three police officers and three assailants were…
This story has mostly positive ratings. 133 votes / 2 sinks
Senate Backs Wiretap Bill to Shield Phone Companies
News – More than two and a half years after the disclosure of President's Bush's domestic eavesdropping program set off a furious national debate, the Senate gave final approval on Wednesday afternoon to broadening the…
This story has mostly positive ratings. 13 votes / No sinks
Naked man arrested after hijacking Las Vegas bus
News – Maybe he lost his shirt at a casino. Police in Las Vegas say they arrested a naked man who stole a beer and then hijacked a bus several miles northeast of the Strip.
This story has mostly positive ratings. 18 votes / No sinks
Iraqi police discover Uday's cars
News – Police in Baghdad have recovered five luxury cars which once belonged to Uday Hussein, son of Saddam Hussein, buried under piles of earth in an orchard. The two Rolls Royces and three sports cars were looted after…
This story has mostly positive ratings. 18 votes / No sinks
Rain Of Madness
Movies – The story behind the story of the making of the behind the scenes of Tropic Thunder.
This story has mostly positive ratings. 16 votes / No sinks
Sorry, Silvio: White House apologizes over gaffe
News – An embarrassed White House apologized on Tuesday for an "unfortunate mistake"--the distribution of an unflattering biography of Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi at the Group of Eight summit. Still, the gaffe led…
This story has mostly positive ratings. 19 votes / No sinks
Jesse Helms, American Bigot
News – Did he plan it? Did he struggle on life support until after the midnight hour? Or had he been dead for days, his associates keeping the body on ice for the holiday announcement? Jesse Helms, dead on the Fourth of…
This story has mostly positive ratings. 20 votes / 1 sink
The Jesse I Knew
News – Jesse Helms was a believer, and fundamentally, what he believed is the quintessence of America. The American constitution is the word of the land, trumping the fashionable vagaries of international law. Freedom…
This story has mostly positive ratings. 35 votes / 1 sink
Woman who died on hospital floor called 'beautiful person'
News – To people around the world who have seen the video, Esmin Green is a symbol of a health-care system that seems to have failed horribly.
This story has mostly positive ratings. 19 votes / No sinks
Blazes in California Take a Toll on Fireworks
News – Lis and Robert Billingsley Ã;¢ââ;;¬" retirees, volunteers and proud American Legion members Ã;¢ââ;;¬" said they had exactly one word to describe sales this holiday period at the fireworks stand…
This story has mostly positive ratings. 6 votes / No sinks
YouTube Ordered To Give Viacom Its User Data...
News – Dismissing privacy concerns, a federal judge overseeing a $1 billion copyright-infringement lawsuit against YouTube has ordered the popular online video-sharing service to disclose who watches which video clips…
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