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Diane Feinstein advises us to lower global warming by "running only a full dishwasher".
Well, our dishwasher is always full when she does the dishes, but I don't see why that has anything to do with global warming.

What happens to a congressman who stuffs $40 000 of bribe money into a freezer? He gets a seat on the Homeland security committee in Congress.

If we believe MSNBC, no Evangelical Christian, Catholic, or Muslim could own a basketball team...LINK
Update: Don't blame Allah/Jehovah/G-D...this Chinese article notes:"In terms of the Chinese traditional ethics and customs and habits, homosexuality is an act violating public morality and therefore not recognized by the society."...
Hmmm...if religious and common law morality are how societies encode the pragmatic lessons of the past, is the past trying to tell us something?

Does Rozaglitazone cause increased fractures? The glitizones are powerful Diabetic medicines. Before they arrived, often our patients ran 300 plus blood sugars from "insulin resistance"...So is the risk of a fracture worth not having a heart attack? LINK (reg req).

Pirates hijack food aid going to Somalia...

Reports of Teenaged suicides after receiving Tamiflu...the headline is misleading. The suicides are not from "bird flu vaccine" but in teenagers suffering from regular influenza who got this medicine...but since influenza can cause depression, and the rate of suicide is the same with the flu whether or not you take the medicine, it's not clear if it's the medicine or the flu causing suicides.

And This article explains why so many scientific articles turn out to be wrong...and repeating the study won't help if researchers use the same biases to frame their experiment....