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• First thoughts: Obama's populist pitch

  Mon Sep 19, 2011
  • You know what's hilarious? If the GOP had actually accepted the 4 trillion dollar package of NOTHING BUT SPENDING CUTS AND LOOPHOLE CLOSURES back during the deficit negotiations, we wouldn't even be here.

• What are you doing to protect your investments?

  Mon Aug 8, 2011
  • I'm 20 and a junior in college. So, yeah. I have no money. Surely things will improve once I get into law school, right?...Right?

• Bachmann gives Romney a run for it in Iowa Poll

  Sat Jun 25, 2011
  • Okay, if you're going to just lob them over the plate like that... 7. "Thou shalt not commit adultery" - Newt messed that one up, now didn't he? 8. "Thou shalt not steal" - I'm just going to look in the direction of Wall Street and shake my head in disapproval.

• Bachmann gives Romney a run for it in Iowa Poll

  Sat Jun 25, 2011
  • "Like Huckabee, Bachmann draws support from evangelical pastors and Christian home-school advocates." Ah yes! America's intellectual vanguard! How could I forget?

• How did Obama do?

  Wed Apr 13, 2011
  • Tax cuts for the rich. Make it about that and only that. Just pleasepleasepleasepleaseplease don't budge from that position

• Ivory Coast's Gbagbo reportedly surrenders

  Tue Apr 5, 2011
  • The problem here (as is the case within most of Africa) is that when the European powers withdrew from the continent and turned over control to the native populace, they did not sufficiently develop the notion of democracy amongst the resident citizenry.

• Virginity's making a comeback, report says

  Thu Mar 3, 2011
  • Virginity's making a comeback... ...and Internet porn viewership is at an all-time high.

• Should I buy my kid a smart phone?

  Tue Feb 1, 2011
  • Trust me, Ivy League students don't do anything constructive with their smartphones; I don't know how you could expect a prepubescent girl to be any kind of responsible or mature about a smartphone.

• Student's Cold War shooting game angers Germans

  Mon Oct 4, 2010
  • Has anyone here played Dante's Inferno? I'm not sure that this (1378 km) is the game to get riled up about.

• Do you find it surprising that atheists know more about religion than Protestants and Catholics do?

  Tue Sep 28, 2010
  • Atheists, Jews, and agnostics are a far more educated lot (on average) than Protestants and Catholics. They also tend to be more liberal...