June 2010
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two interesting Democratic candidates for Senate
In South Carolina - Alvin Greene – an unemployed Army veteran with a felony obscentiy charge against him. He did no campaigning and won 59% of the votes.
In Texas - Kesha Rogers – a woman who won 53% of the votes on an “Impeach Obama” campaign.
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Marriage Shmarriage →
Newsweek recently had a feature called Marriage Reconsidered. It’s fascinating and made me think. One article, entitled I Don’t is a case against marriage and cites some pretty staggering numbers. The authors, both women, state a distrust for, a disinterest in, and plainly a lack of need for the “broken” institution itself. Pavblog, who sent me the article, outlines some of...
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Behavior
Human behavior is pretty fascinating, isn’t it? My favorite subject in school growing up was the neuroscience part of biology, and, per a recent journal I found while strumming around my parents house this past week, I guess intended to be a cognitive science major in college. Instead, I pursued business. But lately I’ve been pretty interested in learning more about personality -...
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"Who cares, it's done, end of story, will probably...
That’s an email sent by Brett Cocales, a BP official on April 16, regarding an insufficient number of centralizers that would be used during the cementing process of drilling.
It appears that BP officials performed a series of cost-benefit analyses and basically got them all wrong. We’ve seen a number of reports of the egregious shortcuts that led to the disaster. And now Congress has released...
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come on y'all it's time to get iced
Should the brand managers at Smirnoff be “holding their faces in their palms” or rejoicing over the amazing hand they’ve been dealt?
By now we all know about Bros Icing Bros, right? If not, learn about it here and here. (That was mainly for my mom.) It has turned the too sweet, too repulsive, and too wimpy beverage into an all too beautiful irony. And it’s more than the...
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What's all that noise?
That buzzing, that drone, the sound of an ”elephant in distress” during the World Cup matches. It’s the vuvuzela, of course.
The vuvuzela is a plastic blowing horn, developed in the 1990s by soccer fan Neil van Schalkwyk. In South Africa, sports fans used to bring homemade tin blowing horns into the games until van Schalkwyk, with a grant from South African brewer SAB Miller,...
Iron Chef offers to cook meals for LeBron once a... →
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$13,050,826,460,886.97 →
That’s a lot of debt. (total debt outstanding, via crazynutjob)