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One of the two giant breast reactors at San Onofre nuclear power plant in Southern California was shut down yesterday after a “small leak” was detected in a “steam generator tube.”
A facility operator said there was no risk to the public or plant workers.
Fukushima.
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An unfortunate strain of E-coli bacteria has been found in German cucumbers, causing illness and even death.
Sad, because German cucumbers are usually quite nice.
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Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, wearing her insane satellite hat, continues to terrify children across England, this time at a nursery school where she attempted an impromptu puppet show.
Both of these tots responded much the same way Charles does upon returning to Clarence House each evening.
via The Sun
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The hubris and fallibility of man will never stop him from trying to trump them. The oil spill in the Gulf was the worst case scenario. Oil mongrels knew this could happen, but they went right ahead and built the rigs anyway, believing that, well, it just won’t happen to us. We all do that to some degree — taking chances we know we shouldn’t. Being too cautious can be humdrum.
Still, I’d prefer a little more of that caution with regard to nuclear power and offshore drilling. This time we lost a gulf. What’s next? Party on, dudes.
Chexy’s Factoid: There are 104 operating commercial nuclear reactors on 64 sites. There are another 34 research reactors at universities, plus government reactors operated by the military and DOE.
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Shiite Muslim men and boys assault themselves with chains and blades in Kabul, Afghanistan during Ashura — a 10-day mourning period for Imam Hussein, who was killed in a battle in Iraq in 680 AD.
Self-flagellation… when you care enough to send the very best.
Majid Saeedi/Getty Images
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Hajo de Reijger — The Netherlands
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It was a cavalcade of peroxide, mascara and Juvederm last night as Taylor Momsen, Lindsay Lohan and Donatella Versace appeared at the Whitney Museum gala in NYC. So alike, and yet only one is believed to be coherent.
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They say that art imitates life, but it’s really that Camilla is a walking work of art. Here’s the Duchess of Cornwall on a visit to a school in Wales, wearing a simple blue shift, her favorite pearl necklace and an inconsequential brassiere. As she nears the camera, her beauty is in focus.
Her carefree hair succumbs to the whims of the wind, nearly free of its tonsorial epoxy, it attempts to escape from the painfully exquisite beauty on which it dwells.
And like a full moon rising in the east, her precious chin dimple appears — God’s little signature on one of his greatest works.
Photos by Chris Jackson/WPA Pool/Getty Images
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Ladies and Gents, the future King of England, Chuckie, wearing his best fur top hat for the second day at the Royal Ascot races. He’s handsome, rich, and gets to sleep with Camilla.
Some guys have all the luck.
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Can you find the crazy behind Liza’s eyes? Is it false eyelashes or an eyelash weave? I don’t know what the crease is on the left above her eyebrow, which is a tattoo. But the overall effect…
… is fabulash. (Click either pic to enlarge, if you dare.)
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--Jimmy Buffett
