Ignorance is a fork in the road, with divergent paths leading to wisdom and stupidity.

The whistles go WHOO WHOO!

This video clip from a local Oakland news station describes a recent trend in after-market automobile modification. The latest fad is to insert a piece of metal into a vehicle's exhaust muffler, turning it into a whistle that can be heard as much as a mile away.

How is America going to end?

Slate's "Choose Your Own Apocalypse" lets you map out the death of the United States

What if Obama really was born in Kenya. What would happen then?

Despite a congressional resolution affirming President Obama's U.S.

Big Bonuses Back as Banks make Billions

The Barclays figures came amid reports some executives have amassed £250,000 bonuses for six months work. That amounts to almost £1,500 a day. The payouts could spark further outrage from staff already angry at the closure of the bank's final salary pension scheme to around 1 …

Dad Who Prayed for Sick Girl Found Guilty in Her Death

A Wisconsin jury has found a father guilty of killing his daughter by praying instead of getting her medical care.

Crooked cops caught on camera

The four police officers -- three of them longtime veterans of the force -- were caught on one of the cop's dash cameras plotting to place the blame for a February traffic accident on a woman one of them had hit with their patrol car.

The Big Takeover

The global economic crisis isn't about money - it's about power. How Wall Street insiders are using the bailout to stage a revolution

The Great American Bubble Machine

The first thing you need to know about Goldman Sachs is that it's everywhere. The world's most powerful investment bank is a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money.

Amid hard times, an influx in real superheroes

Mr. Ravenblade, Mr. Xtreme, Dark Guardian and hundreds of others. Some with elaborate costumes, others with haphazardly stitched outfits, they are appearing on city streets worldwide watching over the populace like Superman watched over Metropolis and Batman over Gotham City.

Health insurers want you to keep smoking, Harvard doctors say

"It's the combined taxidermist and veterinarian approach: either way you get your dog back," says David Himmelstein, an internist at the Harvard Medical School and co-author of a letter published in this week's issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.

O'Reilly's campaign against murdered doctor

When his show airs tomorrow, Bill O'Reilly will most certainly decry the death of Kansas doctor George Tiller, who was killed Sunday while attending church services with his wife.

Thats my Mom wandering around Facebook.

Between feeling sick and generally antisocial, I've spared the Internet my presence for most of the last week.  I know, I know...you're welcome.

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Military over-rules Supreme Court, says National Guard can oust married Gays

The Iowa National Guard is prevented from implementing the Iowa Supreme Court's ruling for its personnel because it is a federally recognized military organization, said Lt. Col. Gregory Hapgood Jr., the Iowa National Guard's public affairs officer.

Facebook: Thanks Stupids!

So, I just had an epiphany. Probably one experienced by many of you, yet of such an obvious nature that only I would bother writing about it. There is too much planning involved in writing up those deep thoughts I ponder, for me to ever get much beyond starting such ventures.

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Lost Cat, Dog On Journey Die Immediately

JACKSON, WY—After their owners inadvertently left them behind in Yellowstone National Park, Louie, a 4-year-old golden retriever, and Nipsy, a 3-year-old longhair cat, were killed within minutes of beginning their heartwarming journey home, sources reported Monday.

America is not a Christian nation

Religious conservatives argue the Founding Fathers intended the United States to be a Judeo-Christian country. But President Obama is right when he says it isn't.Is America a Christian nation, as many conservatives claim it is? One American doesn't think so.

5 Public Health Campaigns That Made Things Worse

Can you imagine how unhealthy we'd be if we didn't have large organizations spending millions on public health campaigns? If we didn't have them to herd us around with their slogans and posters, our lives would be a nightmare of illicit drugs and bad choices.

Funny Anti-Gay-Marriage Ad Sparks YouTube Revolt

"There's a storm gathering." A minute-long TV spot by a group called the National Organization for Marriage is already spawning YouTube parodies of its grave, Terminator-esque warning about gay marriage destroying the American Way of Life.

Darwin cover feature pulled at the last minute by science magazine

TURKEY is the Islamic world's leading secular democracy. It spends a large proportion of its income on scientific research and aims to match that of the European Union by 2013.

A message war the Republicans won

April 6, 2009 | WASHINGTON -- As soon as copies of President Obama's budget proposal arrived on Capitol Hill in February, some members of Congress began to squirm.

Omegle; Your parents warned you not to do it.

Many of the enduring websites on the Net came into being without great fanfare preceding them.  They just established their presence, and did...whatever it is they do.

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Fighting Demons, Raising the Dead, Taking Over the World

Is this still Christianity? Bruce Wilson offers a primer on what has been called "Third Wave Christianity," a global movement now almost 300 million-strong whose adherents believe they can abolish evil from the world by hunting witches, chasing demons from city limits, and ge …

Campus newspaper trashed by police after publishing mugshot of officer arrested for drug dealing - The Boston Globe

Two MIT police officers, apparently unhappy with the student newspaper's coverage of a fellow officer's recent arrest for drug trafficking, did the only thing they could think of to block the bad news: They trashed it.

"It's going to be bad, very bad"

In an interview, the Nobel Prize-winner and former chief economist at the World Bank talks about the Great Depression, Obama's stimulus package and today's financial crisis.

Death establishes all time high

.Death announced earlier today it has already brought to an end enough of Life's games to establish a new record for overall opponents snuffed.

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