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America: dragging Afghans into the 15th century whether they like it or not! It ain't easy and a new poll of U.S. soldiers shows Vietghanistan is taking its toll.

Marketing to children is fraught with evils, yet it remains a problem well under the radar. Joe Camel pushing cigarettes, Ronald McDonald pimping cheeseburgers, and the Trix rabbit (now more recognized than Bugs Bunny) hawking junk cereal are all cut from the same cloth: they prey upon a...

http://www.borowitzreport.com/2011/04/24/trump-dogged-by-rumors-his-hair-is-not-from-us/ :P

As if nearly 50 years of JFK assassination conspiracies aren't enough, his brother's killer now claims that a mysterious woman in a polka-dot dress (the same one who was on that grassy knoll in Dallas, no doubt) brainwashed him into killing Bobby Kennedy. Despite Sirhan's hand-written notes of...

If posts appear on LoR exulting various aspects of the Might Makes Right Doctrine, at least we'll know the source. http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/mar/17/us-spy-operation-social-networks

All the Jews slaughtered over the centuries because of Roman Catholic intolerance and propaganda should be happy to know this. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rev-james-martin-sj/why-the-popes-words-on-th_b_830790.html

Genetically modified organisms? Y'gotta love 'em when they can repackage mosquitoes to fight malaria instead of spread it. http://www.npr.org/2011/02/25/134031191/fungus-knocks-out-malaria-in-mosquitoes

This video shows how the ISS has come together since 1998 and provides links to additional information about each module. http://i.usatoday.net/tech/graphics/iss_timeline/flash.htm

Ok, ok with The King's Speech and Bale, who was great in The Fighter, but didn't best John Hawkes' towering creep in Winter's Bone. And Portman? WTF? Damn Oscar-suckin' chick flicks! Annette Benning was better in The Kids Are Alright and Jennifer Lawrence was even better in Winter's Bone...

The two big Muslim sects have much in common: Allah, Muhammad, Koran, Mecca, Haj, Ramadan, stoning, misogyny, ...quite a lot actually. Following are the differences that have kept them at each other's throats since the late 600s. Talk about grudges! #1: Sunni's break their Ramadan fast at...

There are threads on Tunisia and Egypt, but democracy is breaking out all over North Africa and the Middle East. Perhaps these threads should be combined or be re-staged under "Politics and Law," as the admins might consider. Looking at the bigger picture, Yemenis were as quick as Egyptians to...

Still waiting for someone to slap the cuffs on Pope Rat? America couldn't handle it. Can the Irish, who have written evidence of the Pope's pedophilia cover-up? http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/18/vatican-irish-bishops_n_810535.html Here's a piece on sovereign immunity, the legal...

If they can make a saint out of Pope Ratz's Polish predecessor who was just as homophobic, misogynistic, and pederast-friendly, then there's hope for all sinners. If that guy can make sainthood, how difficult can it be...

Uri Geller, Mars' effect on athletic performance, water having a memory, vaccines as a cause of autism: Publication of "research" in respected journals has been a major, if intellectually disappointing, factor in fixing these pseudosciences in the public's mind. Now The Journal of Personality...

The most grating aspect of the U.S.A.'s War on Terror is its focus on everybody's terrorists but our own. U.S. Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, a conservative Arizona Democrat, clings to life after being shot in the head by a 22-year-old terrorist who killed a judge, a nine-year-old girl and...

Salman Taseer, Governor of the Pakistani Punjab, was not a blasphemer, but he was an outspoken moderate who opposed his country's anti-blasphemy capital punishment laws. So his bodyguard, Malik Mumtaz Qadri, who had been officially disqualified from such duty in 2005, shot him. 26 times. In...

This video begins with a bang by exposing the western media's hissy-fits about Iran and establishing Israel as the major obstacle to peace in the Middle East. After this somewhat substantiated and reasonable information it devolves into an unsubstantiated 911 conspiracy rant. The video's style...

String theory, the idea that the universe consists of vibrating energies akin to near-one-dimensional points in X-Y-Z-spacetime with multiple dimensions "wrapped" into them, is a beautiful mathematical construct whose critics complain isn't science because strings are too small to ever be...