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the lieutenant governor of south carolina has compared schoolchildren who eat free lunches, to stray animals. don't believe me? watch...

"the question put to a succession of arms industry executives last may was always the same: would you pay bribes to get a piece of a $1...

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in our completely unscientific poll of a random sampling of 6 americans, 66.6 percent said enough hot air already", and 33.3 percent sa...

AOL to Lay Off Up to 1, 200 --NYTimes.com/AP, January 11 SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- The struggling Internet company  AOL   was laying off up t...

here's a before and after shot of the national palace in port-au-prince, haiti, showing the damage wrought by the quake. it boggles the ...

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thanks to kottke.org , kizmodo , and the green room for these perspectives on the new burj khalifa  (a.k.a. burj dubai ) in dubai

sarah palin made her debut on fox news last night on the o'reilly factor . is it just me, or does she look like a deer in the headl...

sarah palin is going to contribute to fox news . so who's going to be her ghostwriter ?

Uniquely Painted Homes on the Cyberhomes Blog

talk about your going out in a blaze of. . . well, it was more like blowing out a birthday candle NBC Ending Leno's Nightly Prime-Tim...

my niece was kind enough to give my girls a copy of the movie UP (disney/pixar) for christmas. they'd already seen it, carrie and i had ...

it finally snowed today. took me two-and-a-half hours to drive home. . .usually takes 20 minutes in the evening. for you mathematicians, tha...

this is what you see . . . this is what they are really thinking . . .

another example of someone with too much time on his hands

too funny. may be 2 years old, but gets funnier every time.

a week ago, our family went out on a very cold day. . .30 degrees and windy, but thankfully, no snow or rain. we found this tree farm near o...