I can’t believe this is happening. In Manassas, Virginia, they just passed a law which limits the number of non-related people living in single family homes. They also redefined what a relative is (an uncle/aunt or niece/nephew is NOT considered a relative).
Since when did the government have the right to say who could and couldn’t [...]

From the Washington Post:
“Teams of undercover air marshals and uniformed law enforcement officers will fan out to bus and train stations, ferries, and mass transit facilities across the country this week in a new test program to conduct surveillance and “counter potential criminal terrorist activity in all modes of transportation,” according to internal federal [...]

Ok, so Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is officially crazy. Yesterday, he publicly stated that the Holocaust is a myth.
However, check out what he says later on in the same speech:
“If you committed this big crime, then why should the oppressed Palestinian nation pay the price? This is our proposal: if you committed the [...]

Scientists have created mice in labs with human stem cells injected into their brains. It almost sounds like a Kafka story; I keep thinking of The Metamorphosis, instead this time with the character waking up as a rat instead of an insect. I’m sure people will bring up ethical issues regarding mixing human and animal [...]

I know it’s been a few weeks since he passed away and many people are probably thinking, “Who? Oh yeah, Mr. Miyagi from Karate Kid.” But there was a really great op-ed in the NY Times:
Goodbye to Pat Morita, Best Supporting Asian
By LAWRENCE DOWNES
Pat Morita, the Japanese-American actor, died on Thanksgiving Day in Las Vegas. [...]

That’s right, you read correctly. A psycho 18- year-old woman hired a hit man to kill three people for what she thought was cocaine. Unfortunately, the white mass ended up being a block of queso fresco cheese. Ha. Brings new meaning to the term cracked out.

I’m telling you, Lenin and Castro are back in style — well, their HATS are anyway.
Look around and you see folks sporting hats very similar to those worn for decades by Fidel and those worn by Lenin in the early 20s.
But what does it mean?
The hats have little to do with idealogical revolution or political [...]

From the Washington Post:
“The U.S. military command in Baghdad acknowledged for the first time yesterday that it has paid Iraqi newspapers to carry positive news about U.S. efforts in Iraq, but officials characterized the payments as part of a legitimate campaign to counter insurgents’ misinformation.”
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Um, yeah, but it’s still paying [...]