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• Green substance oozes from ground

  Mon Mar 6, 2006
  • Reads like a ghostbusters promo! - PrBl

• British Bars Selling Sex Toys in Machines

  Mon Mar 6, 2006
  • I thought this was a story about Britain passing a law against sex toy machines. English: not easy to parse, eh? - PrBl

• Bill would require legislation to be posted on the Internet 72 hours before coming up for Congressional debate

  Mon Feb 27, 2006
  • Let's have NO exceptions. NO SECRET LAWS. Put everything on the web. Also, revisions should have to be posted for 72 hours, no last minute changes. - PrBl

• False score gives Vince Young wrong kind of buzz - Actually scored a 16

  Mon Feb 27, 2006
  • Nothing like trying to be precise ... in my above quote, please read the restated test as: Assume the first three statements are true: The boy plays football. Anyone who plays football is a football player. All football players ALWAYS wear helmets. The boy wears a helmet.

• False score gives Vince Young wrong kind of buzz - Actually scored a 16

  Mon Feb 27, 2006
  • There's a problem with the sample Wunderlic test. Their preferred answer for problem #2 is not correct: 2. Assume the first two statements are true. The boy plays football. All football players wear helmets. The boy wears a helmet. Is the final statement: True?

• Taiwan Terminates China Unification Body

  Mon Feb 27, 2006
  • This controversy catches the US in a bad situation. Are we going to defend Taiwan? Stomp Taiwan? The only way for us to look good was if the two places quietly agreed on ANY resolution. - PrBl

• ABC News: Is There a Monster in Lake Champlain?

  Sat Feb 25, 2006
  • Is that the best CANADA can do? Lake Champlain's in New York. -PrBl

• TWiT's Laporte gets Gizzy Wizzy

  Tue Feb 21, 2006
  • Leo has developed a large audience. His rather pleasant voice surely helps. But his level of tech knowledge, I think, is very important. He's not terribly knowledgeable, and willing to show his ignorance. That keeps the shows from getting too technical and appealing to a small, skilled audience.

• Holocaust Denier Gets Three Years in Jail

  Mon Feb 20, 2006
  • Irving doesn't "state opinions." He misquotes primary sources rather spectacularly to "prove" his points, while trying to appear as a logical scholar.