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Monthly Archives June 2008

Wednesday, June 11, 2008 
You are probably richer than you think  
12:13 pm | Comments

Making $30,000 per year puts you in the top 7% of the world. $40,000 is top 3%, and %50,000 is top 1%.

Money/Greed
 
Recent problems with food force the Bush Administration to finally increase funding for the FDA  
12:10 pm | Comments

Politics/Gov't.
Tuesday, June 10, 2008 
McCain campaign is staffed by telecom immunity lobbyists, and he recently flip-flopped on the issue  
2:23 pm | Comments

Politics/Gov't.
 
Heirs of CEOs are set to get hundreds of millions of dollars in golden coffin benefits  
2:19 pm | Comments

Money/Greed
 
"It may well turn out to be the largest war profiteering in history"  
2:17 pm | Comments

Politics/Gov't.
Monday, June 9, 2008 
Pubs in Yorkshire, UK have been ordered to ban people from wearing hats so troublemakers can be more easily recognized by surveillance cameras.  
5:38 pm | Comments

Culture/Society
Sunday, June 8, 2008 
Conservatism can be explained psychologically as a set of neuroses rooted in "fear and aggression, dogmatism and the intolerance of ambiguity"  
9:23 pm | Comments

Culture/Society
 
South Carolina is offering drivers license plates with a Christian cross and the words "I Believe"  
9:20 pm | Comments

Religion
 
John McCain: The Constitution Established America as a Christian Nation  
8:40 am | Comments

Politics/Gov't.
Friday, June 6, 2008 
Man is hit by a car, and people continue to walk and drive by as though he wasn't even there  
10:08 am | Comments

Culture/Society
Thursday, June 5, 2008 
Website lets you send post-rapture e-mails to friends 'left behind'  
12:37 pm | Comments (4)

Dear Heathens: All of the religious tight-wads are gone. Let’s party!

Religion
 
The secret plan to keep Iraq under US control  
12:35 pm | Comments

Bush wants 50 military bases, control of Iraqi airspace and legal immunity for all American soldiers and contractors

Politics/Gov't.
 
Photographers are not a threat to security  
12:34 pm | Comments

Culture/Society
Wednesday, June 4, 2008 
Friendship based more on proximity than on shared values and interests  
2:11 pm | Comments

Culture/Society
 
McCain: I'd Spy on Americans Secretly, Too  
2:10 pm | Comments

Politics/Gov't.
 
Bottling up your emotions is OK, and might even be better in some cases  
2:09 pm | Comments

Culture/Society
Tuesday, June 3, 2008 
American taxpayers would save more than $46 billion if drug addicts now in prison were instead treated.  
1:22 pm | Comments

Culture/Society
 
How long before the Pentagon's Active Denial System is used to torture detainees?  
1:21 pm | Comments

Politics/Gov't.
Monday, June 2, 2008 
Green, healthful, and effective microfiber has been practically shut out of the U.S. market  
10:12 pm | Comments

Business
 
Official report: NASA was censored on global warming  
10:09 pm | Comments

Politics/Gov't.
 
Kmart is selling "True Love Waits" abstinence clothes for juniors  
3:55 pm | Comments

Culture/Society
 
Hillary Clinton is too much like George W. Bush  
10:41 am | Comments

She is simply unable or unwilling to accept the facts in the face of over-whelming evidence. Sound familiar?

Politics/Gov't.
 
700 year old Shroud of Turin hoax cloth to be displayed by the Vatican in 2010  
10:29 am | Comments

Religion
 
Man told he can't fly on British Airways because his t-shirt showed a cartoon drawing of Optimus Prime holding a gun  
10:09 am | Comments

Politics/Gov't.
Sunday, June 1, 2008 
America's massive military budget is irrational, costly and dangerous.  
7:52 pm | Comments

Culture/Society