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• Rapture ridicule resurrected

  Fri Oct 21, 2011
  • Worst apocalypse ever, but caveat emptor: It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future. - Yogi Berra

• Should death row inmates be allowed to choose their last meal before execution?

  Thu Sep 22, 2011
  • BS story. Inmates only receive from what is in the prison kitchen. Brewer never got what he had requeted. BBC report on NPR.

• Plan to scrap new telescope riles up scientists

  Tue Jul 12, 2011
  • More and more big science projects by necessity have become international collaborations, the LHC for example.

• Poll finds disapproval of Congress at all-time high

  Thu Aug 25, 2011
  • My father, an 85 year-old lifelong Republican, who was always slightly right of Genghis Khan, started railing against speaker Boehner's intransigence and the "know nothing" Tea Baggers. That's when I knew that change was in the air.

• All school, no play? Kids' learning suffers without recess, experts say

  Sun Aug 14, 2011
  • To be fair, if kids weren't conditioned at an early age to become sedentary and overweight, how would all of America's fast food restaurants continue to prosper and continue to provide minimum wage to so many freshly minted high-school grads? If kids really need to move around a bit, just install …

• Day of turmoil for GOP — and that's before debate

  Thu Aug 11, 2011
  • Looking forward to the Daily Show tonight. Based on the debate, there should be enough comedy to fill a couple of episodes.

• Is Newsweek's Michele Bachmann cover appropriate?

  Tue Aug 9, 2011
  • She only looks so good in the picture because she is on her meds.

• Grad students come out as losers in debt deal

  Wed Aug 3, 2011
  • Sticking it to grad students, now that's really going to help the economy. We wouldn't want to encourage higher education would we?

• Jaycee Dugard: I was too scared to try to escape

  Thu Jun 2, 2011
  • @ jus-passin-thru

• Saudi woman detained for defying driving ban

  Sat May 21, 2011
  •  It's all about the penis, because it obviously has a mind of its own and if a woman should actually present herself as a woman then men will completely lose rational control of their thoughts and behavior.