Three News Stories

TARPON SPRINGS, Fla. - Florida authorities confirmed that Deborah Jeane Palfrey, convicted of running a high-end prostitution ring in Washington, is dead in a suspected suicide, NBC News reported.

obviously, she was killed by powerful people (politicians) who don't want their careers ruined by extra-marital affairs. furthermore

TOKYO - Japan's oldest giant panda, Ling Ling, a longtime star at Tokyo's largest zoo and a symbol of friendship with China, died Wednesday of heart failure, zookeepers said.

obviously, she was killed by powerful people (politicians) who don't want their careers ruined by symbols of friendship. Better yet, here is an editorial that appears in this week's San Francisco Bay Guardian regarding organized labor and today's protest of the war. Briefly,

Members of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) will lead the way by refusing to work their eight-hour morning shifts at ports in California, Oregon, and Washington. For them, it will be a "no peace, no work" holiday — in effect, a strike against the war.

Happy May Day. Workers of the world unite...now I'm off to work for a place with nothing even close to resembling a union and needing one desperately...get one's own house in order?