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When I gave up my “Mark D. Mouth” schtick shortly after the birth of my oldest child, I swore I would never again step into the wrestling ring as anything other than a fan. Gone were my days moonlighting as a professional wrestling photo-journalist.
That changed a couple weeks ago when one a local media outlet (for which I write political commentary and report on local cultural events) arranged for me to go behind the barricades at a major card of one of Canada’s most respected wrestling promotions, don the wrestling photo-journalist persona, and report from ringside once more.

Here’s the story
Here’s the match results and accompanying photo essay.
And yes, that little red-headed girl in the last pic with Canadian Champion Johnny Fonzerelli is my daughter Jasmine, along with my judo partner T.

UN Security Council to Investigate Page Program of the US Congress
Speaker Hastert Cancels Page Program, Triples Funding for Intern Program
Gas Prices Drop To Under $45 A Barrell On Concerns Americans Are Sitting At Home Watching Cable News For The Very Latest On Page Scandal Firestorm
Evangelicals Declare Scandal Marks The Coming of Armageddon – Begin “Duck & Cover” Drills At Homeschools
Former FBI Director Louis Freeh to Head Page Program Probe
Democrats on Secret October Surprise Committee Uncork Champagne, Dance
Prime Minister Of France Cancels US Trip Citing “The Stench of Immorality”
Yes. These are all fake. Except the one about Louis Freeh.
Update – Looks like Louis Freeh isn’t going to investigate. But it was seriously talked about.

Thanks to Dom for alerting me about the following.
And thanks to the individual from inside the beltway, who wishes to remain nameless, who emailed me to let me know this would be looked after.

Conspiracies Abound In the Middle East Press
The MEMRI Report
By STEVEN STALINSKY
October 4, 2006
Controversies in the Middle East are surrounded by conspiracy theories that proliferate in the region’s press. Recent conspiracies have involved the identity of the person behind the cartoons of Islam’s Prophet Muhammad, the genocide in Darfur, and the true perpetrators of terrorist attacks worldwide.
The latest Middle East conspiracy was hatched September 12, following Pope Benedict XVI’s contentious speech in Germany on Islam. Influential Middle East press and broadcast outlets and prominent figures claimed that America, Jews, Zionists, and/or Israel were really behind his comments.
… Full article

…despite the fact his teachers begged for clemency, because it appears some county prosecutor wants to make a name for himself.