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Californians Use Less Electricity Than Everyone Else — Here’s Why
Given the fact that we enjoy the best weather known to mankind, I won’t gloat too heavily that the average Californian uses roughly 33 percent less electricity at home than the average American as a...
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James “Whitey” Bulger Found Guilty, Obviously
BREAKING: Boston gangster 'Whitey' Bulger found guilty of gangland crimes, including 11 slayings. -MM— The Associated Press (@AP) August 12, 2013 James “Whitey” Bulger — immortalized by Scorsese and...
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Photo Of The Day: “Not All Violence Is Physical”
Copyranter explains the brutal ad against domestic violence, from Lebanon: Not all violence is physical. The scars are shaped like the sound waves of the violent words — pretty shocking and effective.
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Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders) Forced To Leave Somalia
Médecins Sans Frontières, a French secular humanitarian-aid non-governmental organization, has been forced to close all of its operations in war-torn Somalia after 22 years, citing the increase of...
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The End Of The Art Gallery?
Loney Abrams sees the art gallery as quickly becoming a thing of the past, as online viewers have — for better or worse — become the primary audience of an exhibition: Far more people see art on...
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Study Finds That The More Sex You Have, The More Money You Make
According to a new study from the Institute for the Study of Labor at the University of Bonn, if you’re getting laid, you’re probably getting paid too: We estimate that there is a monotonic...
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Read The Depraved Anonymous Letter Left For An Autistic Boy’s Parents
An anonymous Canadian “mother” became the scorn of the Internet today by typing out and delivering some truly heinous thoughts about an autistic neighbor to the teenager’s parents. In the letter, meant...
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Stop Using Tanning Beds You Damn Fools!
Whenever I go to the gym (hey, I do sometimes), I notice that a fair amount of people, usually young girls, make their way to a little corner shop dedicated to altering the color of one’s skin. I’ve...
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Fox News Blames Too Much Facebook And Abortion For Murder Of Aussie Baseball...
You know the horrific story: three teenagers in some place in Oklahoma gunned down an Australian student on a baseball scholarship “for the fun of it”. Yesterday, prosecutors charged two of the teens...
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Here Are The Seven Worst Tweets About Bradley Manning Coming Out As Chelsea
In what was the most unsurprising announcement of the year, Bradley Manning’s lawyer revealed Thursday on NBC’s “Today Show” that his client would now like to live as a woman, and be referred to as...
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How About Partial Student Loan Forgiveness For Living In Distressed Communities?
Garance Franke-Ruta comes up with a way to simultaneously decrease our burgeoning student-loan debt crisis, and help distressed American communities stave off pervasive cases of brain-drain: Cities...
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Starbucks Is Better Than Your Local Coffee Shop. Deal With It.
When three anthropologists from West Virginia University set out to see how effectively three Starbucks locations in and around Boston matched up against three independently-operated coffee shops, in...
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Republicans Were Invited To Attend And Speak At MLK Ceremony. They Didn’t...
Before Bill O’Reilly took to the airwaves to argue that “no Republicans and no conservatives were invited” to the 50th Anniversary of MLK’s I Have a Dream speech, I was really struck that out of all...
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Good News Of The Day: Men Are Just As Depressed As Women
The LA Times has the welcome report: Depression can look very different in men and women. And many of its hallmarks — rage, risk-taking, substance abuse and even workaholism — can hide in plain sight....
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What The Rest Of The World Thinks Of US
Paul Waldman provides timely perspective on how the rest of the world feels about U.S. military action since 1963: Some of these operations worked out very well, others didn’t. And just to be clear,...
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You Have To Write Cold
“Don’t you drink? I notice you speak slightingly of the bottle. I have drunk since I was fifteen and few things have given me more pleasure. When you work hard all day with your head and know you must...
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Forget The Pill, Meet The Pullout Generation
Over at the Cut, Ann Friedman has a really great piece introducing us to something she calls the “pullout generation”, where large numbers of women — usually in their 30′s — are using the old school...
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Judgement Day
By Cato Step 1: Turn on speakers Step 2: Open this video in a different window. Step 3: Read this news story while the previous link plays in the background.
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Theatre For The Absurd, By The Absurd
A Tea-Party rally posing as a veteran-rally, led by Senator Ted Cruz, Sarah Palin and Senator Mike Lee of Utah, pushed through the [admittedly nonsensical] barricades at the World War II memorial in...
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Legalizing Pot Is Pretty Much The Most Popular Thing In America, Besides Freedom
Yesterday, Gallup reported that for the first time ever, a solid majority of Americans (58%) are in favor of legalizing marijuana. For some perspective, consider that Gallup has been asking respondents...
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