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Dave Barry rerun of his essay on the Latex gloves of death
Actually, latex allergies are a problem, both for asthma (from the talc lining carrying latex into the air) and contact dermatitis.
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Powerline and WaPo wonders about Sadr's decision to rein in his militia.. he's getting a lot of criticism after his guys got into a fight with the security guards and with a rival milita at the Karbala pilgrimage. All they ended up doing is getting a lot of people shot and a lot of pilgrims sent home early, and making a lot of people very angry.

StrategyPage summarizes: Sadr vs Badr. Both getting money from Iran, and both wanting an Islamic state, but each wants to run it (hint: it's not religion, it's money...who runs the state gets rich). But blunders are making them unpopular in some quarters.

Here in the Philippines, there was a demonstration against the Dutch who finally got around to arresting one of the communist leaders who was wanted for murder.
Belmont Club has the details. The Netherlands has let these guys hide there for years...

but the really big demonstrations will come if Estrada is convicted...
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