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There currently is a [Library of Congress Subject Heading] proposal for "Targetted killings" which pose[s] interesting definitional problems. Whether it is a military tactic or a type of terrorism apparently depends on which side of the gun you are on.

--someone on one of the cataloging lists I subscribe to, in a thread about which sh subdivision (--Death and burial or --Assassination) is likely going to be applied to the books that are surely soon to be written about the killing of Osama bin Laden.

(Reminds me of that Alfred Hitchcock quote about how television is like a gun.)

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Pagan Response to bin Laden’s Death by Star Foster

Actually I don't find this particularly Pagan - it might be "a Pagan's response" but there's really nothing religious about it in any direction, unless you count a few references to European myths. Anyway, I think I agree with just about everything she says.

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Just zis guy, you know? says:
There's a guy sitting at a table over there who looks like the love child of matt smith and gary busey

this rhetorical dude says:
that's a *love* child?

Just zis guy, you know? says:
.... lol