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Did the Supreme Court get it right and affirmative action is not needed? Nevada rancher Bundy (“slavery is good”) & LAClipper owner Sterling (“don’t be with blacks!”) show there may still be a need. Texas Tech said NO to spending $1 million, including a quarter of a million dollars in salary for the coach, so…

Former President Jimmy Carter won’t email because he doesn’t want the NSA reading what he writes. Hmmm. Ya think we’ve got a problem, if even a former President has these concerns? Your friends said you were cheating when you made up your own Monopoly rules. Now, Hasbro is vindicating you!  They’re letting you vote on…

There is absolutely no truth to the rumor that the Denver Broncos, playing Sunday’s Super Bowl in New Jersey, have hired Governor Chris Christie as a linesman to block incoming traffic from getting to Peyton Manning.

The Marlboro man has died of lung disease. Eric Lawson, an actor, has joined the long list of Marlboro men who died smoking-related deaths. Men growing more facial hair are cutting into Proctor & Gamble’s profits(Gillette). Could say P&G profits have been shaved, ’cause we’re not. JPMorgan Chase paid over $20 billion to settle fraud…

He knows when you are sleeping, he knows if you’re awake, he can tell if you’ve been bad or good…. Sounds kinda creepy when it’s not Santa, but Macy’s. Retailers now can track your activity through your smart phone.  Yup, they know when you’re in the store, how often you go to the store, where…

Illegal hugging? Madison, Wisconsin’s Snuggle House offers cuddling for $60/hr.  The city, however,  is not feeling the love, believing that touching leads to….well, more than touching.  So they’re trying to close ‘em down. Cuddling has evidently been a cottage industry for years.  Rochester, NY’s Snuggery offers overnight cuddling.  San Francisco and Boulder, Colorado have thriving…

Highlights of some of the new Maryland laws went into effect last month: If you’re driving while using a hand-held cell phone, you can now be stopped by the police just for that.  Before, they had to stop you for something else, and then could ticket you for the cell phone violation. All of your…

Sunday Brian Harris, a Catholic charities worker, went outside to enjoy the warm day.  Shots were fired and he was hit in the stomach, but got up and walked away.  The bullet had hit his wallet, went through credit cards and cash, then stopped, millimeters from his body. Who says money can’t buy happiness?

As if use of sarin gas in Syria weren’t bad enough, the Center for Disease Control has issued a report warning that almost two dozen antibiotic-resistant microbes are infecting over two million people a year, causing over 23,000 deaths. CDC Director Thomas Frieden says “Without urgent action now, more patients will be thrust back to…

Conspiracy theorists were right.  Area 51, long denied by the government to even exist, has been officially admitted to be real.  Although the feds still say no aliens are housed there (see Independence Day, Super 8, and a slew of other sci-fi movies), the area, near Groom Lake in Nevada, was home to testing for…