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Must have been a slow news day. Good for you TV 8; nothing like bringing more shame and negative press to the area.
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This article from the O’Reilly Network is a nice, short read why Ralph Nadar’s run for President is more important than a Democrat winning the election.
I find it both amazing and unsurprising that the number one response to Nader’s entry is not about his ideas and whether they’re any good. It’s about how his [...]

The importance of cynicism is not just that it’s true. It’s that recognising human selfishness gives us a chance to do something about it.
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I knew about the caste system in India, but I had no idea it was so depraved. And still in action. A Christian Science Monitor story details the Balmikis, or scavengers, who subsist by carrying away, by hand, the body waste of higher castes.
From the story:
“It is one of the astounding contradictions of modern [...]

Does anyone else find this sad? Not in a nostalgic way, but the fact that as a society we’re so lazy/uneducated/litigious that NYC found it necessary to remove all worded instructions from intersections?
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Who was the poor soul that proposed this project; build a tunnel underneath Stonehenge. Coming soon, the Grand Canyon overpass.
Bonus points for anyone who gets the reference in the title.
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“It’s a marvelous demonstration by liberals, if you will, of censorship. Now mind you, running for political office is every American’s right. Running for political office means free-speech exercise; it means exercising the right of petition, the right of assembly. … To say `Do not run’ to anybody is to say, `Do not speak. Do [...]