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Via Sadly, No!, Peggy Noonan is befuddled: the rich are getting richer, just like the olden days, but the poor (or at least, the not-rich) are failing to return to their natural state of tasteful obsequiousness. Also, the rich are kind of assholes, too.
The gap between rich and poor is great, and [...]

Lookin’ forward to seeing it in it’s proper musical form
Chasity rings and modesty fetishes aren’t the only way to bring back the ’50s - don’t forget about the scaremongering over the tawdry evils associated with the devil’s weed.
Using marijuana seems to increase the chance of becoming psychotic, researchers report in an analysis of past research [...]

If AT&T starts doing this, I promise to start calling them twice a day every day.
If you persistently insist the Sprint fix their numerous errors you will be dropped as a customer, according to reader Michael. He’s been having trouble with Sprint but instead of resolving his problem, they’ve decided to drop him [...]

Really, truly, I have no idea how someone could live with themselves after making a decision like this:
Tony Blair agreed to commit British troops to battle in Iraq in the full knowledge that Washington had failed to make adequate preparations for the postwar reconstruction of the country.
How do you send your own people into what [...]

What is this?

I don’t know about you, but it took me several long minutes of staring at this to realize it was supposed to be a penguin. A Gentoo Penguin, actually, from the movie’s official site. Which is, you’ll note, a rather plump, pear-shaped bird.
But we all know that we can’t have plump, pear-shaped [...]

Hey kids, remember when we talked about the right to privacy?
Yeah, I’m kinda wishing that was more concrete right now, and not because I could use a recreational abortion.

Verizon is seeking to have a lawsuit filed against it for allegedly illegally helping the government eavesdrop on its customers and data mine their call records dismissed. [...]

From the Boundless blog conversation about Comfort’s impending jackassery:

Excellent question. Some argue that you can have morality without having any sort of “higher power”. Some may explain this in an evolutionary sort of way.
Let’s take this for an example: Rape. We all know it is “wrong”. But why? Let’s assume we didn’t have a commandment [...]

Mrs Alexandra over at Homeliving Helper knows that feminists are out to destroy Western civilization. And we’re doing it by causing women to ‘forget’ that we actually like having to stroke a guy’s ego for 40+ years just to get some of those precious, precious resources. Doing this creates two new problems: one [...]

Remember the DaVinci Code Diet? Well, fuck that Catholic-baiting calorie-control blasphemy. Why follow a diet based on heresy when God himself is waiting for you to pray those inches off of your fat ass?
Jordan Rubin is convinced God can help you lose weight. Rubin, author of The Maker’s Diet, is fresh from [...]

This humdinger of a hate rant by Zell Miller strips conservatives of the facade of compassion and lays bare the real motives behind elitist opposition to abortion:
“How could this great land of plenty produce too few people in the last 30 years?” Miller asked. “Here is the brutal truth that no one dares to mention: [...]

Sometimes, it pays to slap a padlock on the gates of the ol’ nuclear facility. Otherwise, ornery plant aficionados might decide to fertilize their tulips with your goodies:
A GERMAN man obtained enriched uranium and buried it in his garden, raising concerns about the security of Germany’s nuclear reactors.
Oh, the understatement. And how [...]

About.com has never been my go-to source for anything, but only because it’s kind of bland and usually not terribly helpful. The flipside of that, though, is that it’s never struck me as too terribly hurtful, either. And if it wasn’t chockfull o’ detail, at least the authors managed to convey the idea [...]