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The Debate is over. The chicken came first.
Utah’s List: So someone in the Utah government releases a list of names of alleged illegal immigrants and sends it all around. Can someone explain to me again how Obama is the Nazi?
NSA Whistleblower: Thomas Drake was concerned about your privacy. The NSA wasn’t. Now he’s facing 35 years in jail.
Gay Marriage Legalized in Argentina: It passes Senate and Argentine President will sign. This is what standing up for the rights of others looks like.
BPs Oil Disaster: As the world learns BP lobbied for a terrorist’s release, it waits for a “crucial test” of a new cap on its oil geyser. Don’t be hopeful.
British Open: Tiger Woods and John Daly are first-round stars. No one harmed.
ESPYs: Wait, they still hold the ESPYs? Why?
He that is wounded in the stones, or hath his privy member cut off, shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD. (Deuteronomy 23:1)
Huffington Post: If it’s a pseudoscientific story that involves Big Pharma, Huffington will run it, and readers will agree with it.
The Daily Beast: Sarah Palin will run in 2012. Looks that way to me, too.
Genghis: I Am Israel, Hear Me Kvetch!
Rising Hegemon: Obviously, bloggers have no ethics whatsoever.

I swear to Allah this monkey would behead you if it could.
Taliban Training Jihadist Monkeys: And not just jihadist monkeys – BLACK PANTHER Jihadist Monkeys!
–WKW
Crossposted at William K. Wolfrum Chronicles
By Carl Zimmer, New York Times/Science, May 16/17, 2013
An article that summarizes the recent work of Ya-Ping Zhang, a geneticist at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, who has led an international network of scientists who have compared pieces of DNA from different canines which is pointing to the theory that dogs domesticated themselves.
But the article's message is not just what it first appears to be. When you get to the concluding paragraphs there are some real though provokers:
[....] SLC6A4 may have played a crucial part in this change, because serotonin influences aggression.
To test these ideas,...
By Neha Paliwal, Passport @ ForeignPolicy.com, May 17, 2013
On Friday, chaotic clashes broke out in Georgia as an angry mob -- comprised mainly of young men but also including robed priests and some women -- descended on a gay rights rally commemorating International Day Against Homophobia. A day earlier, the head of the Georgian Orthodox Church had demanded that authorities stop the rally, calling it a "violation of the majority's right."
According to EurasiaNet, the mob, which numbered...
By Miriam Elder in Moscow, The Guardian, May 17, 2013
Federal Security Service spokesman breaches protocol as he accuses US agency of crossing 'red line' in its recruitment efforts
By Nasser Chararah for Al-Monitor Lebanon Pulse, May 17, 2013
The silent conflict raging between Qatar and Saudi Arabia currently revolves around two main axes. The first is their respective positions vis-à-vis the Muslim Brotherhood, and their disagreement as to whether to back or reject its ascent to power in Syria. The second concerns Saudi Arabia’s objection to the disproportionate — relative to its size...
As jobless claims "surprisingly" go up by 32,000 this month (uh, did everyone forget the sequester?), an Atlantic reporter notes the abandonment of workers by both GOP & Democrats.
While he pushes 3 theories how workers ended up under the bus, I'll push a 4th - "social media whatever".
It used to be most of us were consumers of news and marketing, while a few made their money that way. Now we're all "engaged" (sad co-opting of that word) - selling our goods on Craigslist & eBay, friending & liking pages up the rec list, putting our portals & blogs on-line, passing on videos if not doing mash-ups of our own...
We've become a hive of little businessmen, little Eichmanns as someone once put it - with the...
Father Wolfrum;
I got wounded in the stones once playing hockey. This one stone swole up to the size of a, well, a, a fist-sized rock.
Can I still go to Church? Cause... hockey, right?
- Sidney
Playing hockey has its own verse. I believe it's in Leviticus.