(AP)CHICAGO — These are dangerous times for ducks and geese in Chicago. With the city's ban on foie gras — a delicacy made of duck or goose liver — just days away from going into effect, upscale restaurants in the city are serving it up like never before. They have put together special menus with names like "Foie Gras, Farewell To Our Good Friend" featuring that friend in course after course — searing it, chilling it, throwing it into salads and turning it into sauce.
At the same time, foie gras enthusiasts are cooking up a lawsuit to keep it on the menu in the city or put it back after the ban goes into effect Aug. 22, holding fundraisers to finance their foie gras fight and asking diners to sign petitions in support of that fight.
Counter Expert
I ALWAYS BELIEVE that some kind of ABC of counter expert play is the best grounding for the young Lifeman. Without any special knowledge, without indeed any education whatever, it is possible not only to keep going in conversation, but, sometimes, to throw grave doubts on the value of expert knowledge in general. There is no finer spectacle than the sight of a good Lifeman, so ignorant that he can scarcely spell the simplest word, making an expert look like a fool in his own subject, or at any rate interrupting him in that stupefying flow, breaking the deadly one upness of the man who, say, has really been to Russia, has genuinely taken a course in psychiatry, has actually read history at Oxford, or has written a book on something.
BERLIN (Reuters) - Nobel prize-winning German author Guenter Grass has admitted for the first time that he served in the Waffen-SS, Adolf Hitler's elite Nazi troops.
In an interview with the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Grass, 78, said he volunteered for submarine service toward the end of World War Two. He was called up instead to serve in the Waffen-SS in the eastern city of Dresden.
The author, best known for his first novel "The Tin Drum" and an active supporter of Germany's Social Democratic Party (SPD), said his wartime secret had been weighing on his mind and was one of the reasons he wrote a book of recollections which details his war service. The book is out in September.
"Straight To Hell."--Joe Strummer
Corvallis School of Theology and Plumbing Supply in procession.
"But Penguin, we're on a mission from..."
Obviously not enough marble for the hips...
"And a man's foes shall be they of his own household."By all means, self-destruct...I am sure they're just lining up at Electric Boat. But listen, pally, let's not have any illusions about hypocrisy.
LONDON (Reuters) - Hundreds of Britons are being urged to attend what is being branded as Europe's first "Masturbate-a-thon", a leading reproductive healthcare charity said on Friday. Marie Stopes International, which is hosting the event with HIV/AIDS charity the Terrence Higgins Trust, said it expected up to 200 people to attend the sponsored masturbation session in Clerkenwell, central London, on Saturday.
Right, full marks for Frank Muir's team. We would also have accepted "I Could Have Wanked All Night" or, for the sly ones (who want to know where to come for the rally), "In Spaiiiinnn! In Spaiiiinnn!"
"When I do stare, see how the subject quakes."--Congressman Lear, serving millions from atop the Alleghenies. 
Personally, I was just trying to get down to The Family Store for the half-off union suits.--Feek
Five Fiji internationals have been banned from playing Test rugby for the rest of the year following a drunken brawl in Japan. Semisi Naevo, Maleli Kunavore, Joeli Lotawa, Emosi Vucago and Sekove Leawere were all suspended. "This has ruled out the players from playing at any level under the Fiji Rugby Union," a Fiji Rugby Union spokesman told the Fiji Times.
