50 Years Later: Bravery Outshines Public Humiliation

http://www.americanthinker.com/2007/12/bravery_outshines_public_humil.html

David Addington Pushed To Eliminate Job Of National Archivist Who Challenged Cheney

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/12/26/archives-cheney-addington/

Father Christmas does exist: Russian government

http://rawstory.com/news/afp/Father_Christmas_does_exist_Russian_12272007.html


Russia's government has ridden to the rescue of children by banning a television ad that declares Father Christmas does not exist, the daily Rossiiskaya Gazeta announced Thursday.

Wikipedia black helicopters circle Utah's Traverse Mountain

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/12/06/wikipedia_and_overstock/

Google to tackle Wikipedia with new knowledge service

http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/technology/article3054287.ece

READER COMMENT: Americans of Japanese ancestry were not guilty of any wrongdoing

http://magicvalley.com/articles/2007/12/12/opinion/reader_comments/126579.txt

Award-winning sci-fiction and fantasy writer to give reading at library

"Brockmeier, a Little Rock author, wrote "The Brief History of the Dead," "The Truth about Celia" and "Things that Fall From the Sky;" two children's books "Groves: A Kind of Mystery," about a seventh-grader who receives messages when he rubs a Victorola needle in the ridges of his jeans, or on a certain brand of potato chips, and "City of Names," about a third grader who orders a book of pickle jokes and receives instead a map of his hometown that contains the real names of buildings."

http://www.thecabin.net/stories/121307/sty_1213070036.shtml

"Brockmeier gives a possible explanation for the idea of The City in the epigraph from Lies My Teacher Told Me by James Loewen. The excerpt from Loewen's book tells about an African tribal belief in the sasha, "the recently departed whose time on earth overlapped with people" still living, or the living-dead. One is not dead, or zamani, until the last person to remember them dies."