Better than fiction

[sabotabby]

This story, about a dissident former KGB agent who was poisoned with a radioactive substance and, on his deathbed, fingered Putin for killing him because of his attempts to uncover the truth about the murder of a crusading journalist, is basically the best news story since the one about the exploding whale.

Discuss.

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For your weekend reading:

• Thanks for nothin. Twisty's American Thanksgiving rant—not quite Burroughs, but awesome nevertheless.

• Teaching schoolkids the real meaning of Thanksgiving:

LONG BEACH, Calif. -- Teacher Bill Morgan walks into his third-grade class wearing a black Pilgrim hat made of construction paper and begins snatching up pencils, backpacks and glue sticks from his pupils. He tells them the items now belong to him because he "discovered" them.

The reaction is exactly what Morgan expects: The kids get angry and want their things back.