For Me, Summer's a Bummer and Snow's the Way to Go! by Janice Pfeiffer
Hello fellow DFR readers. Today in the Nations Capital, for the first time this season, we actually have snow. Lest I offend anyone, lets just be D.C. P.C., and we'll call it a "wintry mix" :) I feel I must comment, because overall, winter gets a really bad rap.

Beauty Behind Bars by Janice Pfeiffer
SAO PAULO, Brazil (AP) -- The sweltering heat inside the Capital Female Penitentiary got hotter, as contestants in the Miss Penitentiary pageant were working overtime using hair dryers

Matchmaker, Matchmaker, Make Me a .........Lawsuit? by Janice Pfeiffer
"NEW YORK (Reuters) - It's not easy finding love in cyberspace, and now some frustrated online daters say they were victims of fraud by two top Internet matchmaking services and have taken their complaints to court.

Match.com, a unit of IAC/Interactive Corp., is accused in a federal lawsuit of goading members into renewing their subscriptions through bogus romantic e-mails sent out by company employees. In some instances, the suit contends, people on the Match payroll even went on sham dates with subscribers as a marketing ploy."

Dude-Where's My War? by Janice Pfeiffer
Nov. 13 (Bloomberg) -- The Bush administration had no intention of misleading the public even though pre-war intelligence about Iraq's possession of weapons of mass destruction was ``wrong,'' Stephen Hadley, National Security Advisor, told the Cable News Network.

Vegas Mayor Proposes Cutting Graffiti Artists Thumbs by Janice Pfeiffer
Thumbs up?

Or off, depending on who you ask.