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This appeared in our local paper this morning:
This image from a surveillance video at an adult video store on Airport Boulevard shows a burglar holding an inflatable sex doll after he broke into the business.
Let me count the ways this wingnut fails:

First - he’s on video, so he will likely be caught, and we’ll get [...]

The recent murders of an American doctor in his church, and of an American security guard at the Holocaust Museum in Washington, DC stand out as two examples, although depending on who you listen to, they’re seen as examples of different things.
One camp says that these are tragic examples of crazed and depraved lone gunmen. [...]

This is pretty funny, here the Onion takes a shot at a long history of preachy, boring Star Trek films.

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In: Culture, Politics, Smugness

Welcome 2009. I thought I’d comment on something that doesn’t seem to be getting a great deal of play in the media just now.
During the landmark 2008 US Presidential Campaign, Republicans across the US took a strong, wrong-headed stand on energy. What was their proposed solution to soaring gas prices? Simple - [...]

On the seventh anniversary 9/11, Keith Olbermann has the courage to speak out against Republican Party for using it as a political tool.

If YouTube views were votes, then we’d be talking about President Barak Obama, and how he beat John McCain by a whopping 50 million votes. Below is a screenshot of the YouTube politician channel, and as you can see, Obama has over 1100 videos with over 54 million views to McCain’s 216 videos [...]

Here Pat Condell comments on how “the allowances we make for religion has encouraged Islam to push its way into our society, where it really doesn’t belong, and threaten all of our freedom.”
Some links from the youtube post are here for support:
Assault on free speech in the Netherlands
Islam can no longer be criticised at the [...]

Scientific American is reporting today that a recent survey of users of magic mushrooms have had profound mental changes that have lasted up to 14 months:
Most of the volunteers looked back on their experience up to 14 months later and rated it as the most, or one of the five most, personally meaningful and spiritually [...]

Moderate America is a political blog that’s claims to be more about policy than people. To the folks - mainly fringe nut-cases - that tend to think that there really isn’t any such thing as a political moderate, or worse - that a moderate has no views whatsoever, moderate-america responds:
A political moderate is a [...]

Chris Anderson, Editor in Chief of Wired Magazine, believes that we’re entering a new age of scientific understanding that renders the “old” scientific method obsolete. The reason? We now live in an age where petabytes of data are available, and we can now use powerful computer and mathematical models to find heretofore unanticipated correlations.
This [...]

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