Only a big deal if it's Islamists doing it...
Dirty bombs come to America and nobody cares
Last fall, police in Belfast, Maine, investigating the murder of James B. Cummings, a neo-Nazi with a hate on for Obama, found he possessed all the necessary radioactive materials to build a dirty bomb. The first credible dirty bomb plot inside the United States was being carried out not by a Muslim radical, but by a right-wing radical. Perhaps that’s why it received no media attention outside of Maine… Wikileaks article…Oops, Hersh did it again
“Legendary investigative reporter Seymour Hersh may have made a little more news than he intended by talking about new alleged instances of domestic spying by the CIA, and about an ongoing covert military operation that he called an ‘executive assassination ring.’ ‘Under President Bush’s authority, they’ve been going into countries, not talking to the ambassador or the CIA station chief, and finding people on a list and executing them and leaving’…”Eternal sunshine of the rodent mind
Neurologists at Toronto’s Hospital for Sick Children have successfully erased negative memories from the brains of mice…Those type-A sluts
“Dominance is a key trait of people who have a lot of sexual partners … Individuals who are either extremely warm or extremely cold toward others tend to be promiscuous, while people who are just moderately warm have the fewest sexual partners…”From the Falling Sky Dept.
From the birth of octuplets to North Korea’s sabre-rattling, it’s beginning to look a lot like apocalypse…The evolution of morality
“While stories of Darwinian evolution often stress the amorality of natural selection … our psychological reality is much less bleak. We aren’t fallen angels, but we also aren’t depraved hominids … Human morality might actually be rooted in the cries and smiles of infants…”The limited options of suburban childhood
Suburbs are often described as safe places for children to grow up. But does that make them good places for children to grow up? “A large yard may make sense when a child is just learning to walk. But what happens when children outgrow the yard and want to interact with their peers and explore the world around them?”Surprisingly low unemployment for a profession that hardly pays
The unemployment rate among writers in the US is 6.6 percent, much lower than for artists as a whole…When evasion looks like responsibility
Ali Al-Marri, a US resident, spent more than five years in confinement, without trial or even access to a lawyer. Days before the Supreme Court was to rule on the legality of al-Marri’s plight, the Obama administration announced criminal charges against him. Thus, the Supremes won’t be ruling on al-Marri’s detention. Is the White House abandoning the police state tactics of the Bush administration, or trying to keep them alive?
Baghdad’s worst business
“The buying and selling of girls in Iraq, it’s like the trade in cattle … I’ve seen mothers haggle with agents over the price of their daughters…”Obama, Brit-hater
“First, Obama unceremoniously returned a bust of Winston Churchill the Brits had given to President Bush right after 9-11. Then, he snubbed Prime Minister Gordon Brown by deciding he wasn’t important enough to merit a joint press conference. Finally, after Brown was thoughtful enough to present Obama with a beautiful pen holder hand-carved from a plank from a former anti-slavery ship, Obama reciprocated by giving Brown a collection of DVDs. The Brits are up in arms … But the story has been ignored by the adoring American media…”Pakistan’s downward spiral
“In February, the government [of Pakistan] capitulated to the demands of Islamic militants who have been fighting the state in the Swat Valley for over a year and promised the promulgation of Sharia law in the valley. There was no vote, no referendum, no democracy in the matter … It would seem that Pakistan is losing, quite rapidly, the battle against jihadist ideology…”Is light pollution killing us?
“Excessive light during the nighttime may even be hazardous to human health … ‘A growing body of scientific research suggests light pollution can impair biologic functions in both humans and wildlife. Researchers are working to determine the extent and nature of associations between light pollution and human health effects such as cancer [promoting tumor growth], cardiovascular disease, depression, and insomnia’…”What your taste in music says about your intelligence
“Griffith used aggregated Facebook data about the favorite bands and books among students of various colleges and plotted them against the average SAT scores at those schools … The favorite musician of the smartest students was Beethoven, with an average SAT score of 1371. Also on the “smart” end of the scale were Sufjan Stevens (1260), Counting Crows (1247), and Radiohead (1220). And sadly for Lil Wayne, enjoying his music was associated with being the dumbest, with an average SAT score of 889…”And finally: Six-word science fiction stories…
And finally finally: Salvador Dali’s illustrations for Alice In Wonderland…
And finally finally finally: “It is with deep regret that we inform you of certain cost-cutting measures that will be taken in the coming days so that we can remain competitive. But first some good news. We are happy to report that Bring Your Child to Work Day has been renamed Bring Your Child to Do Work Day…”
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