Thursday, December 10, 2009

FIGHTING SIOUX, MORMON HANUKKAH, AND KILLER HAMSTERS

It's the attack of the killer hamsters.

The Zhu Zhu robot hamster is one of the season's top selling toys. But the GoodGuide consumer organization says it's a dangerous rodent. They say it contains too much antimony.

A warning label could easily fix this. The label would read, "Warning: Don't eat the hamster."

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Orrin Hatch, a Mormon senator from Utah, wrote a Hanukkah song that has now been recorded in a New York studio by singer Rasheeda Azar, a Syrian-American from Indiana.

Only in America.

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The N.C.A.A. wants the University of North Dakota hockey team to drop its "Fighting Sioux" nickname and logo. But the Spirit Lake tribe wants the school to keep it. And they're certainly entitled to their opinion. After all, they're Sioux.

Some non-Sioux native Americans on campus object to the nickname. But the Sioux say they're just jealous.

And so the Sioux are suing.

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