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A charlatan bilking honest, Gawd-fearing Americans/Candians (select one) out of their hard-earned money. Same definition as a "petroleum geologist" whose predictions turn out wrong.

Works for me.

Well, I for one refuse to panic until we hit two digits.

Never check a privilege, Princeton writer Tal Fortgang! Are you mad? By Alexandra Petri May 8 Lately it has come to my attention (read: my manservant read it to me off a tablet) that a Princeton student has been making waves by denouncing the concept of privilege. “A Princetonian...

This West Virginia 17-year old just beat an incumbent state delegate By Reid Wilson May 14 Saira Blair will graduate from a West Virginia high school later this month. She posts photos of her smoothie habit on Instagram, volunteers at the Martinsburg VA hospital and helps raise money for the...

No, not Paul Hogan. 17 million-year-old giant sperm discovered Tom Warren, The Verge yesterday Scientists have unearthed the world’s oldest sperm at a fossil site in Australia. The 17 million-year-old sperm belongs to an ancient species of tiny shrimp that lived in the Australian...

Common Core critics offer too little, too late Because it's communist. And Kenyan. And black.

Because true believers hang their hats on whatever appears to support their true belief. The sounder the source, the better, but if all they got is babbling imbeciles, they'll go with that. And of course, as you've seen, they'll do their best to shout down the opposition, or cherry-pick the...

Being on a list is natural. Can't think of an unnatural way to die. I imagine you'll come up with some, though.

Now that's just preposterous! The notion the French could go the next year and four months without surrendering is beyond credibility.

Nonsense. Many of us will die before then.

Donald Sterling blames woman for his own racial comments: ‘I was baited’ By Terrence McCoy , May 12 For two weeks, Donald Sterling’s voice has been everywhere. Since April 25, when TMZ released a recording of Sterling making racist, disparaging comments about Magic Johnson, the clip has...

Faithless Execution: Building the Political Case for Obama’s Impeachment by National Review writer Andrew McCarthy. Oh, please please pleasepleasepleasepleasepleaseplease!

Of course a photon has no time. That's why it's hurrying so much.

Who knew the North Koreans were Tea Party? The DPRK government's comments about Obama, as reported in the Washington Post: “clown” “dirty fellow” "wicked black monkey" “does not even have the basic appearances of a human being.” “He is a crossbreed with unclear blood.” Obama “still has the...

Inside Britain’s big, dumb halal pizza scandal Hmmm. . . if Westerners are as tolerant as some folk hereabouts like to claim, why are they organising boycotts of chains that use halal meat? A body might think "tolerant" would be "I won't eat there, but they can do as they please." "That...

Here is an amazingly cogent, incisive analysis of Scandals!, as opposed to scandals. Worth a read. I would note that the analysis of Republiklans here can also be levelled against Dumbocrats, though lately it's all Republiklan all the time.

I think you should ask Cauchy. I'm sure he/she/it/whatever would have a valuable perspective.

US teachers nowhere as diverse as their students By Associated Press, Updated: Monday, May 5 WASHINGTON — U.S. teachers are nowhere near as diverse as their students. Almost half the students attending public schools are minorities, yet fewer than 1 in 5 of their...

By Robert Barnes, Updated: Monday, May 5 A divided Supreme Court ruled Monday that legislative bodies such as city councils can begin their meetings with prayer, even if it plainly favors the religion of the speaker. The court ruled 5 to 4 that Christian prayers...