Voting at the polling station in my precinct was done via touch screens. For governor, I touched my finger to Republican, but it highlighted the Democrat below. Whew, that was close! The computer saved me from voting for a greedy, racist, bigoted, homophobic Neanderthal.

For v2.0, they should have a full-blown Clippy Voting Assistant.

One of the country's leading hospitals is throwing aborted babies into the same incinerator used for rubbish to save only £18.50 each time, it has emerged.

Or should I say "fake-scream media"?

These videos have been making the rounds, no doubt clogging the tubes of the Internets. If yours is too slow, I can email my Internet to you. :)

You're traveling through another dimension, a dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind; a journey into a wondrous land whose boundaries are that of the imagination. Next stop: france.

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At the news conference held in Beirut, French Foreign Minister Phillippe Douste-Blazy praised Iran as a "stabilizing force in the Middle East."

Global Warming or Just Hot Air? A Dozen Different Views

In related news, Scientists Clueless over Sun's Effect on Earth

So, what has set me off this time?

Rating restricted for good (Christian) content ... while ratings increasingly relaxed for evil content

Is this the beginning of a pole reversal?

Home schooling may violate international law.

You may have to get government approval for the material that you want to teach your children, in accordance with international guidelines.

One of the most fundamental, timeless elements of civilization is that parents pass on their family's values and traditions to their children. Now, in the name of "children's rights"(???), this is under fire.

Olmert's Preemptive Surrender vs. Bush's Terrorist-Assisted Suicide

Media:

If you read some of the comments posted to "Science [sic]: Missing Link Fossil Discovered," it may have seemed to be an awfully one-sided discussion. Here's a hint: read it at -1. I was astonished to see that most of the posts that challenged evolution were relegated to the bottom of the barrel. There is little vigorous debate (on the fundamental issue) until the seventh page of comments. It seems as th