Xmas in Deep S$$T

Random News from Harper's

British geneticists investigating the case of a 10-year-old Pakistani boy who could walk on burning coals announced that they haddiscovered a gene that influences the perception of pain. They could not examine the boy directly because hehad died after leaping off a roof to impress his friends.

One of several personal ads posted on Asexual Marriage Net, a Chinese marriage broker.
“I’m an elegant, honest, intellectual woman who likes platonic love affairs and wishes for this kind of marriage. We can establish a family that is warm and sexless. —Feng Yalan, female, twenty-four”

In Baghdad, at a gathering place for poor Shiite laborers,the owner of a truck filled with wheat announced that he was looking for workers. A crowd gathered around the truck and it exploded, killing 70 people and wounding 236.

Police and firefighters on Long Island rescued a veteran who had walled himself in with a seven-foot-high pile of fecal matter and other debris, and Representative Charles Rangel(D., N.Y.) said President Bush was in "deep shit."