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Guess which side is winning this particular war?
You aren't supposed to talk about this, but the U.S. is seriously mired in Class Warfare, and has been for a long, long time. And the upper class is just plain kicking the crap out of the lower classes. Perhaps it's time to stop ignoring the raging war around us.
Poverty: Where poverty is rising.  [Read more]
No touching!!!
Boy Scouts: Firing of Gay troop leader continues a fine history of discrimination [Read more]
Sorry about that. [Read more]
These guys are truly All About Beards. [Read more]
If you're going to be small, be the smallest.
Afghanistan: More death to come. [Read more]
Shortly after pulling this stunt, George W. Bush was elected President of America.
Chilean Miners: Free at last. [Read more]

Always a woman to me.
Part of having a recurring blog called “William K. Wolfrum’s Morning” means that some mornings William K. Wolfrum will be busier than normal. This is one of those mornings, as I’ll be taking in my 7-year-old Australian Shepherd, Duchess will be undergoing a mastectomy today as a preventative measure against breast cancer. [Read more]

Sure, Star Wars Yoga sounds fun, but it’s a one-way ticket to Hell.
Yoga Kills: A Southern Baptist pastor makes it clear – stretching and breathing calmly will not be tolerated in God’s kingdom.
Hungary: The toxic sludge is slowing, but the damage isn’t. [Read more]

Lady Gaga is more powerful than Nancy Pelosi, says Forbes.
BP Oil Disaster: Business-hating President Barack Obama really went out of his way to shield British Petroleum. [Read more]

Flipping the Bird: Maurizio Cattelan let’s the Milan Stock Market know how we feel.
Taliban: Blowing stuff up.
Sludge: Would people in Hungary notice if their country was slathered in toxic goo? Answer: Yes! [Read more]

Love his music? Love her politics? Then Sarah Bieber may be just for you.
Rogue French: A rogue trader – called in some circles a thief – pays the price with a whopping three years in jail for stealing billions and nearly killing the French economy.
Times Square Bombed: Faisal Shahzad to learn the price he will pay today in court. Regardless, it’s Obama’s fault. [Read more]

I feel a little Kinky.
Travel Alert for Europe!: Screw it, I’m going anyway.
Pakistan: Death.
America’s Elite Media: Broder and Woodward Still on Lecture Circuit. [Read more]

God. Just chill.
Marijuana in Calif.: Arnold Schwarzeneggger decriminalizes an ounce or less.
Al Qaeda leader may be desperate as he makes latest video wearing a meat suit.
Afghanistan: Death.
Pakistan: Violence. [Read more]
Funny Guy.
We Have Always Been at War with Pakistan: One day, you’ll wake up and the term “War on Pakistan” will just appear in the vernacular. [Read more]
It’s Wolfrum Wednesday. What should I wear? [Read more]
Stephen Colbert takes on Congress about immigration and more. [Read more]
Embrace the Hoff this weekend.
Legislative Fear: Democrats decide dealing with the Bush Tax Boondoggle would just upset people. [Read more]
Dan Savage and husband Terry: Remember, it gets better. Very inspirational words from the loving couple. [Read more]

This has to be David Bowie's proudest moment, pending the manned Mars expedition.
By Aamer Madhani, USA Today, May 19, 2013
President Obama on Sunday told the graduating class at Morehouse College, the country's pre-eminent historically black college, there is "no time for excuses" for this generation of African-American men and that it was time for their generation to step up professionally and in their personal lives.
[....] The president connected his own path to the White House to the work of King and other African-American leaders of that generation. But Obama also conceded that at times as a young man he wrongly blamed his own failings "as just another example of the world trying to keep a black man down."
"We've got no time for excuses — not because the bitter legacies...
Prompted by Peggy Noonan's claim in The Wall Street Journal that "we are in the midst of the worst Washington scandal since Watergate," Andrew Sullivan steps forward to defend Pres. Obama's honor. "Can she actually believe this?," he asks incredulously.
By Julian Pecquet, The Hill, May 18, 2013
Congress is ramping up a new round of sanctions against Iran, ignoring the Obama administration's request to let diplomacy run its course.
In back-to-back hearings this week, lawmakers on key House and Senate panels put the State and Treasury departments on notice that their patience is wearing thin after the latest round of talks last month failed to produce a deal. Both chambers have legislative efforts in the works – the House foreign affairs panel will vote next week – but the administration is warning against any moves that could undermine international support for the existing sanctions against Iran's alleged nuclear weapons program [....]
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,...