We should all ask ourselves this question. Do we really want to continue to eat animals, or will their cloned body parts satisfy us? While looking an animal in the eye, I wonder how many of us could really do what is necessary to provide that meat.

Universal appears to have gotten over it's beef with YouTube. The label is uploading videos like Judgment Day done be tomorrow. Meat Loaf is one of those singers I wouldn't want to hear all the time because he'd wear a bit thin - but it's nice to be reminded about that rocking voice.

The chairman of the Iowa Federation of College Republicans, “Beef Jerky” Ben Johnson, has apparently been keeping his eye on teh Internets’ colossal makefunnery of him. We’d like to lay claim to the lion’s share of this, and accordingly we’ll assume that much of his e-mail response to the College Republicans listserve!!! was directed at us.

Wouldn’t the lack of scales give it away if they replaced croc meat with, say, beef? Apparently not (or else people in Hong Kong eat with their eyes shut). Hong Kong’s Consumer Council tested 24 samples of crocodile meat from dried seafood shops across the territory and found that 16 were fake. And everybody loves a story about crocodiles.

GUANTANAMO BAY, Sept. 19, 2007 - A group of National Guard Airmen stand gazing out across the overgrown skeleton of Guantanamo Bay’s original and once vital air-traffic hub. Examining the expanse of unkempt tarmac – grass extending over the tops of their newly issued tan combat boots, eyes half closed by intense Guantanamo sunlight – members of the

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