Allah be praised, contributing writer Iron Chef has taken time off from his New Year’s holiday in sunny Vancouver to tip us off to some new ingenious modern art pieces and cartoons inspired by the continually unfolding Edison Scandal in Hong Kong.The scene has now grown into even more of a fiasco and engendered a [...]

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I’m starting to see why the casinos cherish this holiday so dearly…
The weeklong extravagance is a small expense for the holiday that began Thursday that regularly boosts Nevada’s baccarat handle by half - last February it hit $1.03 billion, topping even blackjack, the king of card games.
and:
Nevada casinos won $117 million on baccarat last February, [...]

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Columnist Tim Sullivan thinks Barry Bonds would be a good fit for the Padres.
Barry Bonds is a perfect fit. That is, of course, if you happen to be looking for a bouncer.    
I’m not sure what bar Sullivan is talking about here. I think dive bars in general can be ruled out, and a [...]

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I’m not sure if a cat-eating ban in Vietnam would lead to more rat-eating, as this author of this article seems to be suggesting — or if it would lead to fewer rats in general.
In either event, here’s a piece giving us the lowdown on a popular delicacy throughout South Asia.
In Guangdong, a province [...]

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If the Red Sox won 117 games this year — thereby breaking the MLB 162-game regular season record — and then lost in the bottom of the ninth of game seven of the World Series? It would almost make suffering through the season worth it.
That idea just came to me when I read this story:
Red [...]

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Just when you thought A-Rod was the only Yankee with a she-male fetish, rumors now abound that Debbie Clemens also injected HGH–only after several days of persuasion from the Rocket due to her initial reluctance to be injected by a man who wasn’t her husband.
While you’re busy contemplating the metaphoric ramifications of the word injection [...]

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