70,000 Iraqi Insurgents on US Payroll

NPR is reporting that the US Military is paying former insurgents $10 a day to keep the peace. There are currently 70,000 takers. Many believe that this has much to do with the relative success of The Surge.

Senator Wants To Ban Headphones While Crossing Street

"The modern condition of "iPod oblivion", which reduces people with little white headphones stuffed into their ears to a zombie-like state, could become an offence in New York.

Withdrawal from Iraq now will be less painful than years from now.

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Author of badastronomy.com lets loose about issue of political appointees within NASA attempting to alter language used to describe science.

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