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What’s the difference between these two sales pitches:
Good news about looming disaster…it’s easy, inexpensive, fun to get prepared.
WARNING!!! The purest filtered/distilled water may be more dangerous than cigarettes[!]
Answer: the first comes from the WorldNetDaily website, also home to such fearmongering ads as “How the UN will be the death of Isreal and the West” and […]

When the northern fringes of your country start to break up and drift away, even if they were just ice shelves, I think it is safe to say that you are doomed.

A giant ice shelf has snapped free from an island south of the North Pole, scientists said Thursday, citing climate change as a “major” […]

Via Feministing, the patriarchy always knew what was best for us. Sure, housework sucks, but it beats the alternative:
Women who exercise by doing the housework can reduce their risk of breast cancer, a study suggests.
The research on more than 200,000 women from nine European countries found doing household chores was far more cancer protective […]

This was my parents’ house, as of the afternoon of 12/26:

You know you live in a very boring suburb when a house burns up and that story remains the local paper’s breaking news headline for 3 days and counting.
Fortunately for my parents, now that their cat returned late last night, everyone is […]

My boyfriend is bugging me about getting cable television and after three blissful TV-free years, I’ve been a little loathe to call Time Warner. But Slate.com has reminded me of what I’m missing, and that when I turned off the tube, I cut myself off from one of modern life’s greatest pleasures: bitching about […]

Congratulations to Mark Inglis, winner of the Carey Robert’s 2006 Political Incorrectness Award! We’re sure it will take it’s rightful place among the other, not completely made up awards that such a courageous man has certainly won in the past, provided Mark never reads the comments at the bottom of the post.
This being a […]

a) while she is examining the headlights of the vehicle
b) after she has agreed to buy the car
c) after she has left the showroom floor
d) all of the above
Via Twisty, someone, somewhere has finally clued into the fact that women also drive and purchase cars, and would prefer not to be treated like children while […]

Hey, look, it’s the neuroscience merry-go-round! I can never ride this one enough!
Men may not be from Mars and women may not be from Venus, but that doesn’t mean the sexes have the same wiring. Dr. Ruben Gur and his wife, Dr. Raquel Gur, two of the world’s premier experts on gender differences […]

A quick google search for “sluts galore” and maybe some stolen images would have really rounded out Ilana Mercer’s “Things that have irritated me this week” column at WorldNetDaily. At the very least, it would have distracted me from the text, which had very little to do with sluts, galore or not galore.

Above: Ilana […]

Lately, I’ve been racking my brain trying to figure out what to do about this whole war mess we’ve elected to create. I dunno about you, but I feel intense pressure to make the right strategic decisions, not to mention figure out how to make the best possible contribution to the effort.
As […]