Last night was an amazing night. Despite my lack of love for McCain, I must say that he gave a gracious concession speech and did a good job at attempting to calm his disgusting and ungracious crowd of supporters. However, I believe that America made the right choice. President (elect) Obama's acceptance speech, if nothing else, reminded us that ( Read more... )

I know none of you are going to vote to get this insane bitch into office, but just in case you hadn't heard:

The horrors of Palin

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Humanity just sucks sometimes.

Indian villagers 'killed witch'

This is the story... and here are a couple particularly scary quotes:

"Villagers are reported as saying that the trouble started after a woman in a trance during a religious ceremony stated that Ms Kunwar was a witch ( Read more... )

This is a short article, so I'll just post the whole thing here. The last paragraph is the most important. If we want to keep jobs in America, I guess we should continue to educate ourselves properly enough to deserve them, huh?

AT&T 'bemoans lack of US skills'AT&T has said it is struggling to find enough skilled staff to fill the 5,000 customer ( Read more... )

Americans are so worried about what's going on in our own economy (and rightly so) that we often forget that things could be A LOT worse and ARE happening to other people around the world. Not only are the issues in Tibet disturbing, but this is going on as well...

Zimbabweans hungry for changeWe should all (myself included) take the time to ( Read more... )

I was just getting down on myself this morning for gaining so much weight since I've been off our diet and made the resolution to stick to salads, pretty much until the scale started going down again. And now I have the opportunity for a free lunch from Pick Up Stix (YUM!) and there aren't any in Vt! Arrg! Why is my willpower being tested, like

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Gee, more reasons for me to be afraid of deep water. Sheesh!

Leaping stingray kills US woman

It's a pretty short article, so I'm just going to post it all without a cut.

One in four teenage girls in the United States has a sexually-transmitted disease, a study has indicated.

The study, by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), found an even higher prevalence of STDs among black girls ( Read more... )