Today's temperatures at the North Pole are scaring scientists around the world.

"One piece of good news, though: The 230-mile-per-hour jet stream that the storm caused in the North Atlantic actually shortened flights from New York to London to a little over five hours. (It usually takes six or seven.)"
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Amazon’s best-selling camera item this holiday was…film

Huh!
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British Gov’t Responds to Petition to Ban Trump: ‘Coming to the UK Is a Privilege…’

I have not seen Trump's birth certificate. Have you? Why does he not make it public? Maybe we can bar him from the USA!
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An Open Letter to My Friends who Support Donald Trump

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Microsoft patents a slider, earning EFF’s “Stupid Patent of the Month” award

The patent system is broken.
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I lost 60 pounds and realized two important things about eating with Google Docs

Exactly my technique, except that I used the IOS app and stopped losing after I reached my weight of 50 years ago - 25 lbs down.
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Why It's Hard to Poop on Vacation

Sometimes I ... Etc
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Fox News Is Literally Dying Of Old Age As Younger Viewers Refuse To Watch Fox

"Fox News isn’t a television network. It is a retirement home/echo chamber for old white conservatives."
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Jon Stewart Blasts Fox News' Hypocrisy

For Fox News addicts... I miss this guy.
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The Republican Fear of Facts on Guns

Next they will defund weather forecasting because, you know, liberal conspiracy.
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Scott Adams Blog

Scott Adams continues to be scarily plausible.
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The Existential Satisfaction of Things Fitting Perfectly Into Other Things

"...humans have an innate desire to put things in order..." But what about my desk?
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A Life-Saving Checklist

Worth a read...
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Comparing the iPhone to everything else

Yikes.
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New spending bill prevents agencies from regulating dark money

In simple English: The Republican rider is aimed at keeping bribery secret.
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How Many of Your Memories Are Fake?

I have often thought about this.
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The Ivy League, Mental Illness, and the Meaning of Life

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Rwanda's Tour de Farce

Meanwhile, in other news ... The 99.99% of news that does not get any attention.
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Anxiety Significantly Raises Risk for Dementia

News you can use. Calm down. Relax. Be happy!
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Australian boy knocked unconscious riding hoverboard on Christmas Day

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Improving Your Reputation At Work

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The Right Way to Meet Your Protein Needs

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The U.S. Military Will Spend $1.5 Trillion on a Plane That Barely Works

"A man who worked for decades overseeing Pentagon contracts told me this past summer, “The system is based on lies and self-interest, purely toward the end of keeping money moving.” What kept the system running, he said, was that “the services get their budgets, the contractors get their deals, the congressmen get jobs in their districts, and no one who’s not part of the deal bothers to find out what is going on.”"
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The most misleading charts of 2015, fixed

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WATCH: Trump Tells Fox 'News' That Fact Checker Is 'Totally Left-Wing'

Facts have an odd way of being left wing.
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Florida woman arrested after attacking husband for farting

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Researchers studied kindergarteners' behavior and followed up 19 years later. Here are the findings.

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10 Reasons Donald Trump Should Be Our Next President

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The Great Republican Revolt

It is unclear how a party realignment could emerge given how deeply the Republicans and Democrats how embedded their parties into the electoral process.
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American Management Explained. This Guy Nails It.

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xkcd: Watson Medical Algorithm

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joesaward.files.wordpress.com

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One in four Americans would bomb the fictional kingdom in ‘Aladdin’

We are doomed.
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Running long distances can cause your brain to shrink, study finds

I am safe!
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Our obsession with elite colleges is making our kids feel worthless

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This Is How Fox News Brainwashes Its Viewers: Our In-Depth Investigation of the Propaganda Cycle...

In case you were wondering...
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Ted Cruz is more dangerous than Donald Trump

My thoughts exactly.
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'Star Wars: The Force Awakens' Was Shot on Film, and Kodak May Be Profitable in 2016

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Holding public office can seriously curtail the lifespan

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Today's dumbest chart, presented in chart form

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Reverb Press

...and all the Conservative whimps whine about the "Liberal Media"
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There’s A Very Specific Reason Why the 2016 Election Has Turned Into Such a Spectacular Shitshow

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Use Countable to tell your Representative in 30 Seconds: "End the Ban on Gun Violence Research!"

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What Your F-Bomb Habit Says About Your Intelligence

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The truth about Christmas

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Scott Adams Blog

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If you are nearing death and want to live longer, don’t go to the Emergency Room

News I hope you don't need to use for a long time.
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On the 3rd Anniversary of Sandy Hook, One Blunt Tweet Still Says It All

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NASA just began accepting online applications for astronauts

I would make it - but they forgot to ask how old I would be at launch date. GMAFB.
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I'm 13 Years Old and Israel's Chief Rabbi Is Wrong About My School

😢 He is so wrong!
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Avoid a Mold Problem With Bleach, Not Insurance

In general insurance is a bad idea unless the risk you are insuring against can bankrupt you, or you know something about your increased risk level that your insurer does not.
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Getting to Si, Ja, Oui, Hai, and Da

Been there, screwed that up.
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Insomniacs Sleep More Efficiently

Indeed.
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xkcd: Lunch

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Her.ie

😋
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Scott Adams Blog

Dilbert's creator rules!
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SCOTUS Map: November and December 2015

Fascinating look at how the Supreme Court justices look at justice. I have not looked at every reference, but the the Kagan / Scalia segments are interesting. One can disagree with their conclusions -- but the principled logic is hard to object to - sometimes.
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In Israel, Arab chefs carve out a distinct cuisine

Anyone up for a foodie tour of Israel?
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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Criticizes The Media's Handling Of Donald Trump

Unfortunately it takes a basketball celebrity to explain to the media what their responsibility is. Balanced reporting does not mean giving both sides of an issue equal time to lie. Balanced reporting requires that both sides are called out for their lying.
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Inside Deep Dreams: How Google Made Its Computers Go Crazy — Backchannel

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'Good' Guy With Gun: 'I Will Never Help Anybody Again.'

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Why You Should Avoid Ice for a Sprained Ankle

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Everything You Know About Latkes Is Wrong

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The Sex-Obsessed Poet Who Invented Fascism

Life imitates art. Not a good idea?
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Banksy reminds the world that Steve Jobs was a son of a Syrian migrant

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Goose-Steppers in the G.O.P.

"Well, he’s got the Hitler vote. The neo-Nazi website, Daily Stormer, was out and proud earlier this week: “Heil Donald Trump — the Ultimate Savior.” After endorsing the Republican presidential front-runner earlier this year for his call to deport 11 million Mexican immigrants, the fomenters of American fascism have now added an apt twist to his slogan, one not far from the truth of the campaign: “Make America White Again.”"
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Obama again gets the last laugh against Putin

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American Muslims trump hate with love, raising $173k for San Bernardino victims in 6 days.

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All Politicians Lie. Some Lie More Than Others.

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Facebook Now Lets You Find And Delete Friends Who Support Donald Trump

I am happy and a little surprised that my search turned up nothing! Maybe the search does not work :-(
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Fear not: More Americans support Bernie Sanders than Donald Trump — no matter what TV says

So much for Liberal media bias - "Sanders, the democratic socialist, has earned more voter support than Trump — the fascist fabulist."
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Teens Killed in Car Wreck Linked to Attack on Elderly Man | Patch

Following up on the Saturday night accident...
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Aussie police rush to scene of killing, find dead spider | eNCA

We will have a fun time in February!
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Jon Stewart Returns To The Daily Show And DESTROYS The GOP- #WorstResponders

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These Color Photos of Paris Were Shot 100 Years Ago

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Every goddamn day: 12/10/15: Henry Ford and Donald Trump

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Our Favorite Hanukkah Toy Was Actually a Non-Jewish Irish Gambling Game - Culture

Who knew?
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Andy Borowitz

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Happiness Doesn’t Bring Good Health, Study Finds

😠
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The New York Times

Oops.
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5 Outrageously Expensive and Useless Defense Projects That You and I Are Paying for

And the B52 still lives...
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Adam Sandler Plays a New, Very Funny, Very Jewish Version of ‘The Hanukkah Song’

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Join the Coffee Party Movement

He would be a front runner in the parade of clowns.
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People will think you're a jerk if you end texts with a period, scientific study finds

That would be me - some of the time. I will stop. But not full stop
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Chomsky Was Right, We Do Have A 'Grammar' In Our Head?

"This is a controversial conclusion, outside the science consensus, because the notion of abstract, hierarchical, grammar-based structure building has no evidence basis." So maybe it does now have an evidence basis?
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Forget shopping. Soon you'll download your new clothes

The next big disruptive technology. Goodbye Macy's. Hello Amazon - again?
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Great Lakes still ice-free; Midwest Nov 1-Dec temps running 10 to 16-deg warmer than same time last year; onshore Gales set drench Pacific NW and whiten the mounts while pounding the coast with waves up to 36 ft: Welcome to El Nino 2015!

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Jews Are Still the Biggest Target of Religious Hate Crimes - News – Forward.com

Not a surprise.
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Is Donald Trump ever going to go 'too far'?

The only explanation I can come up with is that he entered the race as a lark and never expected to get anywhere. As he started polling well, he started to come up with crazy positions that would allow him to exit by saying "I was right, but nobody listened." Because he has rejected PAC money, a full fledged run would bankrupt him. As he gets more support, he gets crazier just to avoid having to run. I suspect a future move will be to endorse Clinton hoping that he would loose all his support.
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Ynetnews

News you can use...
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FBI admits it uses stingrays, zero-day exploits

Good for them!
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Trump says “closing that Internet” is a good way to fight terrorism

So now the Trumpeter wants Bill Gates to close the internet! Stupid is as stupid does. Listen to Internet-related comments beginning at 22:53 He may be the least informed presidential candidate ever - and that is saying something!
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Dave Brubeck, Jazz Musician, Dies at 91

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2015-12 - Jacob's 18th Birthday - Clive Moss

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Hanukkah in Santa Monica (Tom Lehrer)

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This Gene Is Why You Love to Travel - Practical Travel Gear

It's not my fault. It's my genes.
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After 60 Years, B-52s Still Dominate U.S. Fleet

They don't build them like this anymore.
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Brisket-Stuffed Papas Rellenas Recipe

This I must try!
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Animated Skyline Shows Fun Facts About Chicago's Famous Buildings

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The Top 5 Things the Next President Needs to Know About Foreign Policy

Good thoughts which will be ignored on the whole.
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5 Signs That Benjamin Netanyahu's Split With Israel Security Chiefs Is a Crisis - Israel

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Famous Artists Asked to Draw a Map of the US from Memory

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'No drill' dentistry shows fillings aren't needed in many cases

No they tell me. I spent 90 minutes this morning getting drilled.
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Supreme Court Won’t Hear Challenge to Assault Weapons Ban in Chicago Suburb

Go Highland Park, one of my many home towns!
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Donald Trump Calls for Barring Muslims From Entering U.S.

"Donald J. Trump called on Monday for the United States to bar all Muslims from entering the country until the nation’s leaders can “figure out what is going on,” " In the Trumpeter's case that may be never. Did nobody tell him that Saudi Arabia and Indonesia are Muslim countries? First he came for the Mexicans Then he came for the Muslims Then will come for ... Then he came for ... YOU!
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xkcd: The Three Laws of Robotics

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Is All the Stuff at Art Fairs the Same-ish?

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City of Highland Park, Illinois

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VEHICLE CRASH WITH EJECTION, SERIOUS INJURIES AT 1601 OAKWOOD AVE HIGHLAND PARK

So this happened last night outside our window -- with fatalities
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This Snowflake Photo Took 2,500 Hours to Create

Huh!
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There Is No Evidence Concealed Guns Are A Real-Life Solution To Mass Shootings

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Man Tries To Get On Wife’s Nerves. But How He Did It Is Priceless

Heartwarming tales from the front lines...
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Republican Paul Ryan Protects Rapists’ Rights in New Fetus Bill

Given the look on his face, what do you think he just swallowed?
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How Demographics Will Shape The 2016 Election

Interesting analysis
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Human Crossed The Road

Too true
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xkcd: Colds

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AN OPEN LETTER TO MY PARENTS — The Daily Show

:-)
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Half Day Road and the Origins of a Semantic Slip-up

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What to Do in an Active Shooter Situation | The Art of Manliness

News you should never have to use.
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Robert Reich

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Apple pays out after Genius bar worker wipes honeymooner’s iPhone

Check your back-ups NOW!
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Physicians Demand End To 20-Year-Old Ban On Gun Violence Research

“On public health matters, it’s critical we listen to doctors — not politicians.”
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Six things Americans should know about mass shootings

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Quick Tips: How to Quickly Chill a Bottle of Wine in Only 30 Minutes

News that you should use.
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994 mass shootings in 1,004 days: this is what America's gun crisis looks like

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Guide to washing machine symbols explained

Laundry Symbols explained.
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SunsetWx

This is for all photographers who want to know when and where to go out looking for good weather conditions for landscape sunrise/sunset photographs.
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The first Murdoch-controlled National Geographic issue looks like a cheap History Channel doc

How have the mighty fallen.
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4 Mistakes To Avoid When Talking About Radical Islam - Opinion

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Ted Cruz For President? This Democrat Vows To Give Him The Birther Treatment (VIDEO)

"“It’s interesting to me that the people who had a problem with Obama’s birth certificate don’t have a problem with Ted Cruz, who literally was born in another country and renounced his Canadian Citizenry.” "
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Chicagoans Actually DO Protest Violence In Their Communities All The Time

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The Conversation US

Very wierd!
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The Rachel Maddow Show

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api.ning.com

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Ant time-lapse shows movement patterns

Fascinating!
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Explainer: how scientists know climate change is happening

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The truth about the white working class: Why it’s really allergic to voting for Democrats

Interesting.
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Birthright questions quiz

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Grouchy's Grumbles

More terrorist incitement goes unpunished.
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The New York Times

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The Maps That Prove the Daylight Saving Cycle Is Ruining Our Lives

Indeed.
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6 Acts of Actual Terrorism That Happened While People Were Freaking Out About Refugees

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Kyle Cease

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Marco Rubio Says to Ignore SCOTUS Decision and First Amendment

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Republicans Fired The Leading Expert On Right-Wing Terrorism When Obama Took Office

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Here Are All The People Applauding The Planned Parenthood Shooter

In case you think that only ISIS promotes terrorism in the USA, consider these responses.
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Saudi Arabia Attempting to Behead a Man for Writing Love Poems

Our allies.
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Traveling Teaches Students in a Way Schools Can't

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Wendell Pierce Tweet Exposes Hypocrisy of American Gun Control Laws | Urban Intellectuals

Indeed.
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Burger King manager told grand jury of gap in Laquan McDonald video of police shooting

Why have all the officers involved in this been charged? The whole affair from the cover-up to the ill-timed release of the video smacks of poor management from the mayor down at best, and most likely criminal malfeasance.
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I lost 60 pounds and realized two important things about eating with Google Docs

Exactly my method that allowed me to loose 25 lbs
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Biggest, most powerful engine in the world: 109,000 HP

This beats the crap out of a whimpy Intel Processor.
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Saudi woman Gang-raped, Court Gives Her 200 Lashes And Jail Term

“It is scandalous that the UN chose a country that has beheaded more people this year than ISIS to be head of a key human rights panel. Petro-dollars and politics have trumped human rights. Saudi Arabia has arguably the worst record in the world when it comes to religious freedom and women’s rights, and continues to imprison the innocent blogger Raif Badawi” via Tina Manley
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Architectural Photography Workshop

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Open House Chicago - 2015 - Courtesy of Google

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Photo by Clive Moss

Ava
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Photos by Clive Moss

Three years ago, courtesy of Google.
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Photos by Clive Moss

Google photos does interesting things when you dump all your photos into it. It picked up this bunch from 5 years ago all by itself with no curation or editing on my part!
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Photo by Clive Moss

Jacob Bokor
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BDS Fail Of The Day: SJP Needs To Boycott Its Own Website

"If you're gonna build a website telling people to boycott Israel, don't build your website on Wix! They are an Israeli company. Idiots." Thanks to Hillary Lynne Glaser
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Thanksgiving flight patterns

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The tardigrade genome has been sequenced, and it has the most foreign DNA of any animal

The bug from space?
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I would exercise more but I usually forget that I need to.
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Why do American cops kill so many compared to European cops?

Good question
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Clive

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Jacob on Drums - November 2015

This video is about Jacob on Drums - November 2015
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What the pro-schmooze pundits fail to understand

Pathetic Party Politics.
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Video: Turkey shoots down Russian airplane | PBS NewsHour

Sarajevo?
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Chicago Tribune

INdeed.
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MoveOn.org

Nailed it.
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ScienceAlert

Heh. I thought it was just cleaning problem.
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BREAKING: Police just released footage of the Laquan McDonald shooting

Who needs terrorists when we have the Chicago police?
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Lil Jon

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Facts about the Syrian Refugees

Facts can be useful, except for politicians.
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Saudi Arabia Sentences Poet to Death

Saudi Arabia - our allies?
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Kennedy Expressway tops list for congestion in U.S., study finds

My Google Maps or Waze almost always routes me away from this and down Lake Shore Drive
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Police: Several Shot at New Orleans Playground During Music Video Shoot

Who needs terrorists? We do pretty well without them.
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A very simple explanation of why it's wrong to demand that Muslims condemn terrorism

"Condoning the killing of civilians is, to me, about the most monstrous thing you can to do. And to be suspected of doing something so monstrous, simply because of your faith, seems very unfair. Now when you look at the majority of terrorist attacks in the United States, according to the FBI, the majority of domestic terror attacks are actually committed by white, male Christians. Now that's just the facts. When those things occur, we don't suspect other people who share their faith and ethnicity of condoning them. We assume that these things outrage them just as much as they do anyone else. And we have to afford this same assumption of innocence to Muslims."
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33.media.tumblr.com

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Russian bombers wipe out Syrian city of Nawa, just 15 km from Golan

?
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What It Is Like To Be A Robot With No Soul

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Watch: The science of genetic inheritance is weirder than we thought

Lisa and Karen - beware!
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Willy Foo - Photographer, Marketer, Technopreneur

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More pics of ballsy topless Lebanese girls burning #ISIS flags...

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Against NRA Opposition Sen. Feinstein Pushes To End Gun Sales To Suspected Terrorists

So now we know where the NRA's loyalty lies. Given this, would it not be appropriate to classify it as a terrorist organization?
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Indonesia is burning. So why is the world looking away? | George Monbiot

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The Cold Realism of the Post-Paris War on Terror

"Syria merely confirms the lesson the West should have learned from Iraq: that the freedom agenda in the Muslim world is dead."
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StandWithUs

This, together with the comment stream, illustrates the core of the problem in Israel.
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Gene Amdahl dies at 92; chief architect of IBM's mainframe computers

This obituary passed almost unnoticed.
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The Threat Is Already Inside

"The cheapest and easiest way to reduce the benefits of terrorism is to stop overreacting. That 129 people were killed in the Paris attacks is a terrible tragedy and a vicious crime, but 16,000 people in the United States are murdered each year in “ordinary” homicides, 30,000 die in accidental falls, 34,000 die in car crashes, and 39,000 die of accidental poisoning. We should mourn each and every death, and we should take all reasonable steps to prevent more deaths from occurring and punish those responsible for intentionally inflicting harm. But we need to stop viewing terrorism as unique and aberrational. The more we panic and posture and overreact, the more terrorism we’ll get."
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Mike Bloomberg has 6 harsh pieces of advice for people who want success

Very Good (:-)) advice
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Century-old November Chicago storm snowfall record poised to fall

It's been real...
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10 Years ago - November 19, 2005 Jacob and Julia

Taking advantage of the snow day to catch up on the 10 years ago series.
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Which Wine For the Bird—and Why? | The Feed

News you can use...
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Comic: Fluffy Action at a Distance

:-) but true
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Asok Meets Dick

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Winter Storm continues today – additional snow accumulations of 3 to 7-inches before ending from west to east later this Saturday afternoon

We are in the pink...
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New Nerve Drugs May Finally Prevent Migraine Headaches

That would be nice - but "a single dose of a CGRP drug decreased headache days by more than 60 percent (63 percent in one study and 66 percent in the other)" does not indicate that the root cause has been addressed.
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Tea Party Idiot Ted Cruz Pleads For Repeal Of Federal Law That Doesn't Exist

Typical Tea Party.
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Updated Winter Storm Warning for heavy snow across the Chicago area

We are in the pink - to coin a phrase
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Muslim woman puts NBC's Chuck Todd in his place with this calm response (VIDEO)

Why don't we expect or demand that American Christian leaders speak out against Christain gun violence? Good question.
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Definitely snow☃
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Exact Location of Vermeer’s “The Little Street” Discovered

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The 'reality gap' poses real political challenges

For all of the Fox watchers...
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media.giphy.com

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Boston Museum Opens Time Capsule Left by Paul Revere

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Waterlogged snow accumulations to produce “heart attack” snow–be careful shoveling; could end up Chicago’s biggest Nov snow in 37 years

Hunkering down for the weekend. No shovelling for me :-)
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Counter-Suicide-Terrorism: Evidence from House Demolitions

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Toddlers Shot More People In US Than Islamic Terrorists In 2015: 20 Senators Want To Know Why

We have to start checking toddler immigrants immediately!
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A Hyperlapse of the South African Safari

Very cool!
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Meet The 88 Democrats Who Just Voted To Enable Racial Discrimination In Car Buying

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Saudi Arabia, an ISIS That Has Made It

"Daesh has a mother: the invasion of Iraq. But it also has a father: Saudi Arabia and its religious-industrial complex. Until that point is understood, battles may be won, but the war will be lost"
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Dumb Hicks Are America's Greatest Threat

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Don't Close America's Doors to Refugees

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H.R. 4038: American SAFE Act of 2015 -- House Vote #643 -- Nov 19, 2015

Keep America Safe. Stop selling guns.
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Winter storm Watch for potential heavy snow west and north of Chicago Friday night – Saturday morning

Here we go again
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32 killed, 80 injured in Nigeria market blast – Red Cross

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WikiLeaks cables portray Saudi Arabia as a cash machine for terrorists

Sanity at last.
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Powerful Images Showing Where Young Syrian Refugees Sleep

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DSW Shoe Lovers Care

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Gun purchases legal for those on US terror watchlists

Well, they are often members of a "well regulated militia" so they are protected by the Constitution.
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The real risk is in barring Syrian refugees

Not to mention that tourist visas are much easier to obtain.
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Doctors want ban on prescription drug, device advertisements

Sounds like a good idea to me.
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The Generic Graph

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Obama lashed out at governors & fearmongering GOP candidates on Syrian refugee crisis (VIDEO)

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Envisioning How Global Powers Can Smash ISIS

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To Weld, Perchance, to Dream

"Philosophers don’t know the answers, but we do know the questions and the fact that we keep on asking them is evidence to the fact that human beings are still perplexed by the major issues of truth, reality, God, justice and even happiness."
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The Truth About Cast Iron Pans: 7 Myths That Need To Go Away

Truly useful truths.
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America's Test Kitchen Founder Chris Kimball Leaves Show

Trouble in the Kitchen! Oy!
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Here's The List Of Governors Who Will NOT Take Refugees Into Their States | The Sean Hannity Show

Stupid is as stupid does. It is far easier to enter the US with tourist visa than as a refugee. Maybe these "Governors" will refuse tourists as well? GMAFB!
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Here Are The Muslim Leaders Who Condemned Terrorism That Sean Hannity Ignored

It seems that the reason that Fox News and their blogging cohorts are whining that mainstream Muslims do not condemn terrorism is that Fox et al do not carry the condemnations - and if Fox does not carry it - it never happened. To be fair - most other news channels do not carry the condemnations - because ratings?
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Anonymous Declares War on ISIS, First Salvo is Suspended Twitter Accounts - The Mac Observer

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Scientists now think that being overweight can protect your health

Dang. I just lost about 2 stone.
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Mike Huckabee Can’t Think Of Anyone Except Muslims Targeting Innocent Civilians

Food for thought for the thoughtful.
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Infographic: What does the colour of your snot say about your health?

Don't read this while you're having breakfast.
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What Americans thought of Jewish refugees on the eve of World War II

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What a Conservative Alternative to Obama's Climate Plan Looks Like

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Because of Paris, people are sharing news about a seven-month old attack in Kenya for the first time

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It’s Not Just Paris: From Nigeria to Egypt, 10 of 2015’s Worst Terrorist Attacks

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Three Boys Boarding - Wilmette, IL | DogVacay

In case you need it...
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The Greatest Jazz Artists …According to The BBC - uDiscover

Pretty good list.
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If you manage your time terribly, you’ll get more done

Yep!
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Boko Haram destroyed more than 1,000 schools this year, UN says

It's only Africa so it does not matter?
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Space station suffers short circuit, power system degraded

...and I thought that replacing the remote control for the fan in my bedroom was a hassle!
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FBI picks up Chicago City Council inspector general computers

Politics as usual in Chicago…
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City of Chicago :: Ward 2

Our ward in the City of Chicago is possibly the most gerrymandered unit in the USA!
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Anonymous Declares War On ISIS After Paris Attacks

Time to get the CIA doing the same thing - and physically taking down their internet access.
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DSW Shoe Lovers Care

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DSW Shoe Lovers Care

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Why John Kerry and the French President are calling ISIS "Daesh"

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To the Republicans Blaming President Obama for the Attack in Paris: Just Stop

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20 Problems Only Book Lovers Understand

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To really combat terror, end support for Saudi Arabia | Owen Jones

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Ten French warplanes drop 20 bombs on ISIS Syrian HQ

Surely it cannot be hard for the US and its allies to bomb every admin center and camp in ISIS territory! Why is it not being done? An underground bunch of terrorist cannot be bombed, A state such as ISIS is trying to establish can have its infrastructure totally destroyed, Even its access to the Internet must go through physical routers which can be hit. It may mean roughing up "allies" in Saudi Arabia and the Gulf states - but so what?
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Anonymous vs. the Islamic State

Anonymous could be our most effective weapon!
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Dutch Pranksters Punk Museumgoers with IKEA Art

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Paris Attacks Highlight Western Vulnerability, And Our Selective Grief And Outrage - New Matilda

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Conservatives Immediately Criticize Obama After He Condemned Paris Attacks

If a tree falls in the forest and no one hears it, is it still Obama's fault?
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The problem with moderate Muslims

"In my childhood I was told that every day that passes on the Islamic nation without a caliphate is a sin. That the failures and miseries of the Muslim world started the moment we gave up conquests and wars against the infidels. That our prosperity depends on conquering new lands, converting new believers, looting new resources and enslaving more women. I was taught that a Jew is essentially a demon in flesh and that it is our destiny as good Muslims to kill them all. I was regularly fueled by battle stories and stories of lethal feuds of seventh century Arabia. It was not just me, a small child in Cairo, who was raised with these great apocalyptic prophecies, it was also so many people from all around the globe."
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‘The Attacks Will Be Spectacular’

On the direct path to the Bataclan...
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Le Bataclan, une cible régulièrement visée

In case you were wondering why the Bataclan...
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FactChecking GOP Economic Debate

So, are politicians uninformed, dishonest, or both?
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Dying of Fear

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Upworthy

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Mapping 10 Years of Fatal Traffic Accidents

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3dfirstaid visual architecture

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xkcd: Isolation

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The 26 happiest, richest, healthiest, and most crime-free countries in the world

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The scientific evidence against spanking, timeouts, and sleep training

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Obama's New Appointee to Head the FDA Is a Big Pharma Mega-Lobbyist

Singing ... When will they ever learn ...
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A man’s jail term turns on a comma

Why syntax really matters. Watch your punctuation, especially if you are drafting a law that will be voted on by politicians who don’t read it!
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Study Theology, Even If You Don't Believe in God

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The overwhelming evidence against spanking

The comments are mind blowing, especially when taken in conjunction with a society that favors "open carry" and "concealed carry"
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Sugar industry threatens to scupper WHO

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Correcting statistical biases in "Rising morbidity and mortality in midlife among white...

Be wary of statistics, especially when the analysis is performed by non-statisticians.
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Why Amazon isn’t a Fucking Idiot and Runs a Deficit

Economics 201
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Shaadow Sefiroth

Grace under pressure!
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Israel Beyond

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May the Floss be with you? « Science-Based Medicine

News you can use.
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Religious upbringing associated with less altruism, study finds

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Over 2 years & 7,530 images later, South African photographer creates dynamic time-lapse of Cape...

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Does Defensive Medicine Even Work?

"in six out of seven specialties, higher-spending physicians faced fewer malpractice claims, accounting for differences in patient case-mix across physicians." Now, wait for the malpractice lawyers to find a reason to sue for over-treating - perhaps a class action suit for the class of people who did not see a doctor but paid for insurance!
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BenchWarmers

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Rupert Murdoch Takes Over National Geographic, Then Lays Off Award-Winning Staff

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Looking into the eyes of Iraqi detainees

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Why you might want to stop eating fish

At last - an ethical basis for my dislike of fish (pickled herring and lox excluded)
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How much daylight does daylight saving time save?

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Every goddamn day: 11/02/15: Economic fear makes governments do bad things

My kind of of guy...
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From The Archives: 1965 US Army Training Film: Basic Photography

A blast from the past!
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Toddlers Killed By Guns Each Year Vs. Cops Shot In Line Of Duty...This Will Shock You! -

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Bill Gates: The private sector is completely inept

"“Since World War II, U.S.-government R&D has defined the state of the art in almost every area,” Gates told the Atlantic. “When I first got into this I thought, ‘How well does the Department of Energy spend its R&D budget?’ And I was worried: ‘Gosh, if I’m going to be saying it should double its budget, if it turns out it’s not very well spent, how am I going to feel about that? But as I’ve really dug into it, the DARPA money is very well spent, and the basic-science money is very well spent. The government has these ‘Centers of Excellence.’ They should have twice as many of those things, and those things should get about four times as much money as they do.”" And Congressmen will respond "I am not a scientist but yada yada yada. We must cut spending so our donors can get their payback"
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Photographers are different, but I bet you didn’t know just HOW different…

I would love to see this repeated with more than one sample per group, and include artists in the sample.
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The U.S. Date Format: Going Rogue - Adams on Contract Drafting

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20 of the First Photographs of Things, from People to Hoaxes to the Moon

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Trump and Biden-Two Magazines, Two Approaches.... « Joe McNally's Blog

Interesting look back...
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Super Sharp review: simple physics make this game fun and challenging | TheApplePips.com

Addicting
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33.media.tumblr.com

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Obama plans to send special operations forces to N. Syria

Singing...It's beginning to feel a lot like Vietnam...
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American colleges ranked by alumni earnings above expectation

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How to stay calm when you know you'll be stressed

Really interesting, especially the "number needed to treat" statistic.
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Performance Parts Ltd

And this was done in the last decade, before modern technology was available! (And it's not Triumph's. It's Triumphs).
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If elected, Bernie Sanders wouldn’t be America’s first socialist president

Food for thought. Let's do it.
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Wife Cites Husband's Obsession with Photography in Divorce Filing

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Greater than the sum of its parts

Evolution in action…
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Alex Ross: The Rest Is Noise: A Zemlinsky moment

Zemlinsky - new to me - but based on this snippet worth exploring.
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38.media.tumblr.com

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Tesla Autopilot w/driver assistance prevents a 45mph head-on collision [video] | Electrek

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IBM puts the clouds in cloud computing, acquires the Weather Company

This could be interesting
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Treif or treat: Why is Halloween candy kosher?

Huh
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What You're Really Asking When You Ask 'Where Are You From?'

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GOP Presidential Candidate John Kasich goes ballistic: 'What has happened to our Party' (VIDEO)

Good question!
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Deerfield Rated Among America's Best Suburbs by Business Insider | Patch

So in 1979 I made a good decision after a week in Chicagoland
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How the Middle East Conflict Is Warping Judaism - Opinion

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The Hilarious and Justice-Driven 2016 Sanders-David Ticket

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15 hilarious parenting comics that are almost too real.

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South Africa’s Student Revolt

"Because even in South Africa, even now, unruly white bodies aren’t threatening but unruly black bodies are." So sad.
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Dilbert Comic Strip on 2015-10-25 | Dilbert by Scott Adams

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WAKE UP, Democratic Party: You're In Serious Trouble

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BUSTED: Republican Trey Gowdy Caught Using Private Email Server

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Auto Mechanics Hilariously Recreate Renaissance Paintings

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Daily Cartoon: Thursday, October 22nd - The New Yorker

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Language Log » More Flesch-Kincaid grade-level nonsense

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The Numbers Are In: After $15 Minimum Wage, Seattle's Restaurants Are BOOMING

The Right Wingers will surely claim that it is unfair to use to use numbers to oppose their doctrines.
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Why Middle Managers Are So Stressed Out

Yep!
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Benghazi Hearing: What’s New?

"Obama administration officials in the days after the attack publicly cited the anti-Muslim video as a possible reason for the attack, even though the State Department had evidence at the time that it may have been a planned terrorist attack." All this incredible effort to parse out "possible" and "may have been". What a waste of time and money.
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Why Self-Driving Cars Must Be Programmed to Kill | MIT Technology Review

Azimov’s Laws of Robotics meet today’s world!
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Fox: New Evidence Hillary Killed Lincoln - The New Yorker

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Three Years Of The Benghazi Hoax In Five Minutes

If you still think Fox is a news source, the word "news" has changed its meaning. You know who you are :-)
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The Louder the Monkey, the Smaller Its Balls, Study Finds

Why does this remind me of the Congressional Benghazi Committee?
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The US just lifted a crushing burden on prison inmates and their families

The new Democracy - when you have them by the balls their hearts, minds, and Dollars will follow.
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The loudest monkeys have the smallest balls

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A billionaire explains why the GOP donor class fears Trump

In other news this week, experimental evidence once again supports the quantum physics prediction of "spooky action at a distance", which is analogous to the effect of dark money on Congress. Dark money is also akin to dark matter. Its effects can be seen, but it can't be found. Physics gives credence to the "science" of "Political Science"
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Hypocrite Paul Ryan: Family Time For Me But Not For You

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Choosing Empathy | Edge.org

Mutual lack of empathy is at the root of conflict - from the partisan BS in the USA to the Middle East mess and everything in between.
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Describing events

What baseball commentary sounds like to me.
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Mass shootings aren't the problem

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“Have you tried turning it off and on again?” Only 5% of Mac users ever need to hear this

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cdn.theatlantic.com

Fascinating.
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A Year-Long U.S. Road Trip for People Who Want 70-Degree Weather Every Day

I could live with this.
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Fox Host Attacked Bill Clinton For Striking Bin Laden, Now Blames Clinton For 9/11

We must stop defaming bulls. Foxshit is the appropriate term.
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The Day We Burned Our Neighbors Alive

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Jim Webb and the culture gap

"Webb . . . doesn't care much for campaigning and he really hates asking people for money." ... which indicates that he is a good guy, but that he is divorced from reality - as are most good guys! Unfortunately, as the article quotes "nothing in the middle of the road but yellow stripes and dead armadillos." Was Webb the most middling Republican candidate this cycle?
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"Stand with Israel Act of 2015" - Senate Bill - Countable

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Leica SL (Typ 601) Mirrorless Digital Camera 10850 B&H Photo

Tempting, but I will wait for the Panasonic branded version for $745.00
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Elmer Fudd Was Originally a Wildlife Photographer

News you definitely can't use.
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The new kind of notification that you never want to see on your Facebook

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Calling out the Chicago Sun-Times and USA Today Newspapers

Fortunately I do not regularly read these "newspapers." It is hard to find a well curated source of news (or rational opinion.) OTOH, in the good old days, all we had were the local dailies and a few newsweeklies.
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Democrats are in denial. Their party is actually in deep trouble.

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Fox News gets suckered: 11 outrageous lies by their “terror analyst” who was was actually a con man

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An Architectural Photography Workshop - Clive Moss

http://ift.tt/1OFn7uQ
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CIA: Trey Gowdy Altered Documents To Frame Hillary Clinton

THE DA in Chicago routinely sends people to prison for lying - when will Gowdy be indicted - or are the rules in Congress different?
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33.media.tumblr.com

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Comic for October 19, 2015

Imagine indeed😟
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SNL Beautifully Mocks The Absurdity Of America’s Love Affair With Guns (VIDEO)

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The Roots of the Latest Palestinian Uprising

"There will not be peace between Israelis and Palestinians so long as parties on both sides of the conflict continue to deny the national and religious rights of the other." True - and unfortunately unlikely.
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The Artist Statements of the Old Masters

What he actually said (translated): "I have been working on that damn mouth for weeks and I can't get it quite right. Gotta move on to the next one"
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Donald Trump tells an inconvenient truth about 9/11 that upsets Jeb Bush (VIDEO)

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A Toddler Has Shot Someone Every Week In 2015, Washington Post Reports - CrimeFeed

We need to find that toddler and stop him!
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RNC chair: 'We're cooked as a party' with 2016 loss

And the problem is....?
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Yale University Releases 170,000 Incredible Photos Of The Great Depression

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Fox News Blames Jews for Dying During the Holocaust: What is Happening to America? -

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IBM employees with Macs call for tech support significantly less than PC users

Gee. What a surprise. I am shocked, shocked!
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Noah’s Original Identity: The First Winemaker - TheTorah.com

Noah’s Original Identity: The First Winemaker. What’s not to like?
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Johannesburg bridge collapse: Two dead in South Africa - BBC News

Oy!
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A photographer edits out our smartphones to show our strange and lonely new world

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Court Says Cops Wrong To Seize Car Over $20 Of Weed, But Not For Reason You'd Think

Who needs the mob when we have the cops?
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Democrats’ dream ticket just stood side by side on the debate stage

Not a bad idea.
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Turkish Prime Minister: “There Is a 360 Degree Difference Between Turkish Islam and ISIS”

I guess math is not his strong point.
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Another Republican admits: Benghazi panel is political

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In Defense of Laziness

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The smartest, most effective way to win any political argument

Not a bad idea
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The Conan O'Brien Show Takes a Poke at Michael Dell - SiliconHills

😁
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Comic for October 14, 2015

😊
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Center-right pundit: GOP guilty of ' jaw-dropping incompetence'

Indeed.
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Turkey's 10-Sided War With Itself

Our political system in the USA is heading in this direction. Not close now, but history takes time. Democracy works well when there is agreement on ends and disagreement on means. It fails when there is disagreement on ends.
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AT&T customer politely e-mails CEO, gets terse reply from AT&T lawyer | Ars Technica

AT&T moves listening to customers to a new level!
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Supreme Court Justices Get More Liberal As They Get Older

With age comes wisdom
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Dying vet’s ‘fuck you’ letter to George Bush & Dick Cheney needs to be read by every American |...

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Saudi Arabia’s last best chance may be an alliance with Israel

Your enemy's enemy is also your enemy. Welcome to the Middle East.
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Language Log » Denying that the earth is not flat

"...this example illustrates how hard — even unnatural — it is to process phrases with multiple negations, because in fact the example is semantically correct."
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Saudi king Salman hospitalized. Palace coup suspected

More Middle East trouble brewing?
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Narcissistic Accuser Syndrome

🈵😬
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The Hitler gun control lie

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Canada’s History of Violence

Interesting.
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William Kentridge Gives Major Collection to George Eastman Museum

I have seen his work at the MCA in Chicago. Very interesting - sometimes disturbing - images.
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xkcd: Hardware Reductionism

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It’s Time for the United States to Start Worrying About a Saudi Collapse

More trouble in the 'hood.
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Congress: Stop Blue Cross from terminating insurance coverage in Illinois. - Sign the Petition!

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This Document Reveals Why The House Of Representatives Is In Complete Chaos

Be afraid. Be very afraid. These 40 "Tea Party" conservatives (anarchist radicals, actually) want to become a junta that will run the country. Do what we want or do nothing is their motto.
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Kevin McCarthy Suggests House Republicans Are Ungovernable, May Need To ‘Hit Rock Bottom’

They can't even govern themselves - how can we expect them to govern the country. It seems to me that the two party system - created by the parties to protect themselves, not by the constitution - is becoming a serious impediment to a viable political process.
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5 Indefensible Tweets From The NRA Since The Oregon Gun Massacre

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Scott Adams Blog

"...we can make predictions based on both filters and see which one does the best job of explaining our reality. Just for fun. Don’t get your opinions on world politics from cartoonists."
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New Analysis Ranks Presidential Candidates By Their Supporters’ Grammar

I love numbers
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Rabbi Sharon Brous – Holding On: A Plea to Stay in the Conversation; Yom Kippur 5776 | IKAR LA

Yes, it's another sermon -- but well worth a listen if you are about to go to college, or if you know someone about to go to college, or if fall into neither of these groups.
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Chiropractors Lobby for Acceptance by the VA and TRICARE « Science-Based Medicine

So despite the protestations by members of Congress that "I am not a scientist, but...", here they go attempting to legislate science. American law - the best that money can buy.
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Photogrammar

Thinks, BD. Wonderful collection of a sad period. It is almost a curated Flickr of the 30s.
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Michael Savage Suggests UCC Shooting Was An Obama Conspiracy To Distract From Syrian Civil War

It is the stock in trade of the oddly right to turn every issue into a discussion of what our president says, does not say, thinks, does not think, or does, does not do. If something does wrong he is responsible - either by action or inaction. If something goes right it is because of external forces that he cannot control. Tiresome in the extreme.
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Fox Host Says Background Checks Will Force Poor, Minorities To Choose Between Guns And Food

Yay Fox - Guns are more important than food! Because, with a gun, you can shoot something in the inner city and eat it?
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Scott Adams Blog

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Trump: Middle East would be more stable if Saddam, Gaddafi still in power

This may be the only thing Trump is right about.
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People Keep Stealing His Ideas

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me irl

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A US airstrike hit a charity-run hospital in Afghanistan—killing doctors and patients

Bombing has always been a failed strategy unless its objective is total conquest of the adversary. Without total submission the result of the "collateral damage" (military speak for "total fuck up") is more hatred of the bombers (us) by the general population that we purport to be helping.
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The Three Similarities in Conversations Around the World

This is why Internet postings and comments degenerate into squabbles- no opportunity to clarify miscommunications.
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Australia confiscated 650,000 guns. Murders and suicides plummeted.

I wonder if there is any connection.
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Meet Google Drive – One place for all your files

Fall at Rosewood Beach - lots of wave action.
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Stormy Lake Michigan at Rosewood Beach

I walked down to the Beach with my 2nd try - iPhone to see what a few windy days did to the Lake.
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Stormy Lake Michigan at Rosewood Beach

I walked down to the Beach with my iPhone to see what a few windy days did to the Lake.
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Voigtlander Rangefinder Cameras Are No More

I still have one.
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More than one mass shooting happens per day in the U.S., data shows

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America's Test Kitchen | Netflix

Most important news of the month...
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Joe Biden in 1974: I’m About as Liberal as Your Grandmother

From the archives before my time in the USA
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Every Moon Photo Shot by Apollo Astronauts is Now on Flickr

Cool.
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Jeb Bush on Oregon mass murder: "Stuff happens"

Can you imagine this insightful analysis during his thankfully unlikely State of the Union address.
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London Underground Rent Map

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Do brain interventions to treat disease change the essence of who we are?

Wow. Watch the embedded video.
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Laughing until it hurts and you can not breathe

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GOP leader tries to undo damage after Benghazi concession

Politicians of all ilks will take this as a lesson that telling the truth will get them into trouble.
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Voter ID and driver's license office closures black-out Alabama's Black Belt

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Many in Nation Tired of Explaining Things to Idiots - The New Yorker

Once again - guns don't kill people?
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‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens

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A Chief Justice Without a Friend

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Planned Parenthood’s Activities Are Completely Legal, And Republicans Are Proving It

The problem for the theocratic right is that PP activities are indeed legal - but they do not want them to be legal.
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Why Little Kids in Japan Are So Independent

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Interesting number paradox - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

All numbers are interesting. It's been proven.
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How the Tesla Killed Automotive Glamour

I thought Ferraris also had about a 200 mile range between service events.
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The Nine Circles of Hell at Expo Milano, the 2015 World’s Fair

Who knew that world fairs were still a thing?
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Do you love coffee? You should probably be drinking even more

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Every 10 seconds...

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No, You Don’t Need to Post a Facebook Copyright Status

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Study: Red Meat Takes Years Off Of Cow's Life

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The Failed 'Reaganomics Experiment' In Kansas Keeps Getting Worse

As if reality ever moved a voter...
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What Does Probability Mean in Your Profession? | Math with Bad Drawings

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Texas ‘good guy with a gun’ shoots carjacking victim in head — then runs away

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A “Natural Cure” for Eczema Leaves a Young Child in Agony…..

Conclusion: Harmful nonsense is harmful
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New Alzheimer’s treatment fully restores memory function

I am dubious. In any case, we need something for the rest of us.
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We Lost Our Daughter to a Mass Shooter and Now Owe $203,000 to His Ammo Dealer

Disgusting. The gun industry and lobby needs to controlled. A constitutional amendment is needed.
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Austria Sends Jewish Historian to Jail After He Exposes Holocaust Crimes

And so it goes...
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Mecca belongs to all Muslims, and Saudi Arabia shouldn’t be allowed to run it

When the fight for Saudi Arabia begins all hell will break loose.
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Dewey, Cheatem & Howe

"Ronald Reagan insisted that government is always the problem, never the solution, and this has become dogma on the right." And, as usual, he was wrong.
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xkcd: Picture a Grassy Field

Reality is in your mind - not out there someplace.
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Scott Adams Blog

Dilbert for Speaker of the House!
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Actual Exchanges Between Pilots And Control Towers.

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Amazon Prime annual membership gets cut to just $67 for Sept. 25 only

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What Happened to South African Democracy

Democracy, the African way.
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The Mass Incarceration of America: How Did We Let This Happen? (Part 1)

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How the NFL Fleeces Taxpayers

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Saudi Arabia is preparing to behead and crucify a 21-year-old activist

And these guys are our allies!
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Ben Carson Shattering Stereotype About Brain Surgeons Being Smart

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Big Price Increase for TB Drug Is Rescinded

Seems like the FDA needs to rethink something.
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Hedge Fund Manager Buys Rights To Critical Drug, Hikes Price By 5000%

Yeah. Let's deregulate everything, because, you know, companies are people that can be trusted.
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What Millennials’ Use of Email Tells Us About How We Need to Change

Interesting.
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DNA Science Now So Sophisticated, It Can Be Used To Recover "Lost Bits" Of History, Researchers...

"The researchers say it's now "clear that migration and admixture have been the norm, rather than the exception, throughout human history." This will upset some presidential candidates :-)
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What are your 3 strengths and your 1 weakness?

Based only on my name?
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Sommelier tastes box wine - Dr Vino's wine blog

Hmmm - mat be worth a try...
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Every goddamn day: 09/20/15: Ben Carson shits on the American flag

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PNHP: This is why we need single-payer – Medicare for all

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12 Odd South African Expressions That Drive The World Crazy

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Jackson Pollock Quote

I must be a tree!
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Ted Cruz Says He is Honored to Receive Endorsement of White Supremacist, Gun Fanatic Group

He should be honored. No one else will support him.
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Born In The USA: How America Created Iran's Nuclear Program

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Bentley SUV offers optional $170,000 clock

Inconspicuous consumption...
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Scott Adams Blog

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The Black Family in the Age of Mass Incarceration

"From the Democratic Socialist Bernie Sanders (“To my mind, it makes eminently more sense to invest in jobs and education, rather than jails and incarceration”) to mainstream progressives like Hillary Clinton (“Without the mass incarceration that we currently practice, millions fewer people would be living in poverty”) to right-wing Tea Party candidates like Ted Cruz (“Harsh mandatory minimum sentences for nonviolent drug crimes have contributed to prison overpopulation and are both unfair and ineffective”), there is now broad agreement that the sprawling carceral state must be dismantled. " Now let's see if anyone will actually do anything about it.
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How Volkswagen Cheated on Emissions Testing

Corporations are people too. But how do you incarcerate one?
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הצינור

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The Oldest Known Footage Of The City Of Chicago

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Very cool map of London's Underground accurately drawn. Lisa Moss
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"Jaywalking" Video Shows 9 Police Officers Tackling 16-Year-Old Boy

These guys protect us? With police like this, we don't need criminals.
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Why South Africans can't do cinema - BRAVEHEART

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U.S. to Begin Military Talks With Russia on Syria

The Middle East of the 21st Century is beginning to look scarily like the Balkans of the 20th Century leading up to WWI and WWII (for the younger generation, the Cliff Notes - Actually Spark Notes, but close enough - are here http://ift.tt/1QncUAh ). Change the names of a few of the players, replace "Liberalism" with "Democracy" and here we go again.
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Jeremy Taylor: "Ag Pleez Deddy"

For those of us of a certain age from a certain country...
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Conservative Forbes Admits Obamacare Is Adding Jobs And Helping The Economy

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How Do We Speak To Each Other? (RH 2015)

If you have the fortitude to listen to another sermon, this is worth a listen.
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Ahmed’s Clock Wasn’t a Bomb. And The Texas School Knew it.

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Wizard Attacks Wizard - The Trump Persuasion Series

I love this guy's analysis.
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A Failure to Launch Gives NASA Spotty Access to the Space Station

Another privatization disaster. Relying on Russia for space station access could become a problem.
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What We Mean When We Say Hello

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Limbaugh: Watching GOP Debate Was Like "Watching 11 Rush Limbaughs"

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South Africa's new human ancestor sparks racial row

Weird
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Ann Coulter Used GOP Debate To Launch Derogatory Attack On Jews

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Jeb Bush defends his brother: 'He kept us safe'

Except for 9/11, of course. Talk about being in denial!
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Air Force chief rebuts F-35 haters, calls for more modernization | Ars Technica

Welsh noted that the Air Force is in its "24th year of continual combat—no air force has done that before." Not something to be proud of. Hope he is right about the F-35 - but it seems dubious.
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FactChecking the CNN Republican Debate

I found it fascinating that with rare exceptions the consensus opinion was that the USA should cut taxes, increase spending on the military and border control, and balance the budget! Seems like arithmetic is not a strong point in this crowd.
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Millions Watch American Democracy’s Final Episode - The New Yorker

Indeed.
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Here’s the victim-blaming letter Ahmed Mohammed’s school sent to justify his arrest

Only in Texas! The state should be expelled from the Union.
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The world's longest continental volcanic chain has been discovered in Australia

So that'e what they mean when they say a boom is coming to Australia
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Justice Dept. Says Hillary Clinton Had Authority to Delete Certain Emails

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How The Florida Governor's Office Manipulated Media Coverage Of Planned Parenthood Investigation

"The Florida agency tasked with investigating Planned Parenthood clinics in that state found no evidence that they were mishandling fetal remains, but Gov. Rick Scott's office altered the agency's statements to remove language that exonerated Planned Parenthood, and added new language that made the organization look guilty of wrongdoing. Several media outlets unwittingly quoted the statements before the misleading edits were discovered."
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Artists and Their Big Secret

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What Language Experts Find So Strange About Donald Trump

Interesting - discomforting.
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Video Captures Last Year's Epic Collision Between Fully Laden Containerships in the Suez

Talk about "O Shit" moments.
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Who Earned a Higher Salary Than You

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Accurate - almost. The new mess includes external drives for backup, wifi extender, charging cables and bricks for phones and pads and cameras, scanners, shredders, mice, Wacom tablets, printers. Speakers, and a mess of cables that we keep just in case we need them.
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Life as a Nonviolent Psychopath

I have reading his book. Very interesting.
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Tea Party Rally Lists Alternatives to Iran Deal: "Let the Good Out, Nuke Them, Hold Super Bowl...

Very scary people. Trump/Cruz for President? It could happen.
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It's Still Not the End of History

"A new Cold War has broken out. China’s “Marxist capitalism” suggests you can have wealth without freedom. And the advance of ISIS may herald a new, state-oriented Islamic fundamentalism."
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America's Never-Ending Stadium Boondoggle

"The overwhelming conclusion of decades of economic research on the subject is that using public funds to subsidize wealthy sports franchises makes zero economic sense and is a giant waste of taxpayer money."
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The Hell of Living Without Dental Care

I have often wondered why tooth problems are not medical problems covered by medical insurance.
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