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I swear this is not Yale bashing week this story just caught my attention, Geronimo’s great-grandson wants bones returned

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) - Legend has it that Yale University’s ultrasecret Skull and Bones society swiped the remains of American Indian leader Geronimo nearly a century ago from an army outpost in Oklahoma, and now Geronimo’s great-grandson wants the remains returned.

If the skull and bones are in a tomb at the club’s headquarters Harlyn Geronimo wants them returned so they can have a properly consecrated burial.

Murdoch’s Muckraker Invents Iranian Invasion 

And torrid gossip is about the best characterization of a story, headlined “Iran bombers attack Our Boys”, about Iranian ‘copters in Iraqi airspace. It’s a story so obviously made-up that it’s buried on The Sun’s news pages beneath the latest on Tiger Wood’s baby and who is hot on the Big Brother reality TV show. It doesn’t even warrant the same amount of space as the story about the Sun’s interpid reporter who stipped off at a nudist rally!

There is at least one fringe Right blog that has pointed how how ridiculous this story is.
Bush has certainly botched up wars on two fronts, but we still have plenty of nukes and daisy cutters. While individual Iranian militants might be running across the border it is difficult to imagine that the government in Tehran would be stupid enough to do something provocative as send helicopters on missions into Iraq. I think Rupert Murdock is an Australian citizen, can’t somebody over there put a leash on this guy and get him a rabies shoot because he causes more trouble.

35,000-Year-Old Mammoth Sculpture Found in Germany 

Archaeologists at the University of Tübingen have recovered the first entirely intact woolly mammoth figurine from the Swabian Jura, a plateau in the state of Baden-Württemberg, thought to have been made by the first modern humans some 35,000 years ago. It is believed to be the oldest ivory carving ever found. “You can be sure,” Tübingen archaeologist Nicholas J. Conard told SPIEGEL ONLINE, “that there has been art in Swabia for over 35,000 years.”

Not only is humanity over 3,000 years old, but we had hobbies 35,000 years ago.