Sixty years ago today, a facility to kill and incinerate human beings -- mostly Jews, but others as well -- was shut down by the advancing armies of the then-Soviet Union.

Here's the BBC's story

The Bloggies are one popular awards website, says this BBC story. When I went there this aft., I got a "bandwidth limit exceeded" message.

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Millions of American children are still haunted by the trauma of seeing Janet Jackson's partially exposed breast for a second or two during last year's Super Bowl halftime show, according to a fake FCC study reported in The Onion.

Complaining about Israel's treatment of Palestinians and likening it to a "Nazi state" is behind the rise in attacks on Jews in the UK, Israeli officials claim.

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The NYT's Elizabeth Bumiller analyzes Dubya's news conference from Wednesday morning -- which happened after 31 U.S. troops died in a helicopter crash, but didn't voluntarily mention it -- in light of an aggressive White House communications strategy to make put the Iraq election in the best possible light.

Part of that strategy? Not defining what success would be.

The NYT's Adam Cohen examines the disturbing issue of right-wing authors who are trying to re-write U.S. history, but focuses on The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History.

In this NYT commentary, Paul Starr, co-editor of the The American Prospect, explains where U.S. liberals may have fallen down in promoting the good fights.

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Thomas L. Friedman of the NYT has completed his tour of the European colonies and has some free advice for his commander-in-chief.

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