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That's the result of the switch from whale oil to petroleum. Can't really do good scrimshaw on refinery waste.

Whittle a lot. Once, in a fit of native pride, I chipped out a stone knife and whittled with that. Gave me a real appreciation of steel. Now I whittle with. . . a stone knife (well, technically zirconium oxide).

Death toll in Yemen rises as Saudi-led military attacks continue By Ali al-Mujahed and Brian Murphy April 1 at 6:53 AM SANAA, Yemen — An airstrike from a Saudi-led military force destroyed a dairy plant along Yemen’s Red Sea coast, killing more than two dozen people Wednesday in another...

Indiana woman jailed for “feticide.” It’s never happened before By Sarah KaplanApril 1 When Purvi Patel showed up in the St. Joseph Regional Medical Center’s maternity ward, bleeding and showing a protruding umbilical cord, Dr. Kelly McGuire immediately knew something was wrong. “There...

Ind. to ‘clarify’ new law decried as anti-gay By Sandhya Somashekhar and Mark Berman March 30 at 8:32 PM Republican lawmakers in Indiana promised Monday to amend a religious liberties bill that critics have labeled as anti-gay, bowing to protests that have rapidly spread to...

Funny. He claims derailing threads is BAD, except when he does it. Come to think, he fits right in here.

You'd be perma-banned in about five seconds.

Precisely. The rest of it you're WRITING, not reading.

And believe me, we truly appreciate your endless whining. Makes us appreciate how nice it is to be mentally and emotionally healthy.

It's the only sensible way of dealing with a whiny, bitchy True Believer.

All-Canadian basketball player can now use his ‘F-word’ last name By Terrence McCoy March 25 at 6:13 AM Coach Craig Price’s phone won’t stop ringing. Everyone from reporters to award committee announcers want to know if it’s true what they say about his star basketball player. No one’s...

America is needed on Iraq’s front lines By Gary Anderson March 24 at 8:07 PM Gary Anderson, a retired Marine Corps colonel, was the chief of staff of the Marine Corps Warfighting Lab from 1998 to 2000. This month, the Iraqi government launched an offensive against Islamic State fighters...

Angelina Jolie Pitt: Diary of a Surgery By ANGELINA JOLIE PITTMARCH 24, 2015 LOS ANGELES — TWO years ago I wrote about my choice to have a preventive double mastectomy. A simple blood test had revealed that I carried a mutation in the BRCA1 gene. It gave me an estimated 87 percent risk of...

Of the hopefuls, I favour Marco Rubio or Martin O'Malley. Ain't gonna happen, though. The money already picked Clinton and Bush.

This time, the New Jersey Supremes got it right. New Jersey’s Sensitive Victim Bias Crime Unconstitutional A basic tenet of due process requires that a law give a defendant notice of what conduct is criminal. Without such notice, there would be no way to know that it shouldn’t be...

One of the Baltimore Ravens Just Published an Insanely Complex Study in a Math Journal by Natalie Kitroeff John Urschel, an offensive lineman for the Baltimore Ravens, recently co-authored a paper in the Journal of Computational Mathematics. It is titled "A Cascadic Multigrid Algorithm for...

Cardinal steps down over sexual impropriety allegations, a first since 1927 By Michelle Boorstein March 20 The Vatican announced Friday that a Scottish cardinal accused of sexual misconduct will lose all the rights and privileges of that high office following his resignation — the first...

This is a doubleplusgood action by the Florida Ministry of Truth.

Report says Iraq forces turned on nearby villages after military victory By Missy Ryan March 18 Shiite militias and Iraqi government forces burned and looted dozens of villages, abducting at least 11 local residents, in the wake of a U.S.-supported operation against the Islamic State last...