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Some members of the Tea Party say what's in your kid's textbook may be giving them a negative opinion about our nation's founding history. ...
Notably, they're hoping to make changes in how slavery and encroachment on Native Americans are portrayed to students. "Slavery is of course portrayed in the textbooks nowadays I'm sure as a totally negative thing. Had there not been slavery in the South, the economy would've fallen," Rieck said.
[THIS is why we can't have nice things. -L]
If you’ve never heard of the website CashCats.biz, you’re really missing out.
It features the latest images of cats rolling around in piles of money.
The Internet will never be the same for you, will it?
Sophia is taking a class on terrorism, and purchased the $30 textbook from Amazon... She was thumbing through the book when something unexpected fell out of it...
Since she was reading up on people sending bombs in the mail in her textbook at the time, the idea of anthrax in the mail came to mind, so Sophia took the package to the police. Turns out the powder was a different kind of danger to society.
Since the bill was introduced late last week by State Sen. Ralph Shortey, a Republican from Oklahoma City, corners of the Internet have been buzzing with the news, as people try to figure out two things: 1) is this real; and 2) is there any reason the bill might be needed?
[What. the fucking. fuck. -L]
Mandatory ethics training this year for the 138 members of the Kentucky legislature features a lecture by Jack Abramoff, a convicted felon at the center of Washington’s biggest lobbying corruption scandal.
"This is not what I meant when I told my client to get network attached storage," writes Tyler.
This man looks far too proud of himself for a guy wearing a bunch of babies.
An Ohio landlord accused of discriminating against an African-American girl with a "white only" sign at her swimming pool told ABCNews.com that the sign was an antique and a decoration.
"I'm not a bad person," said Jamie Hein of Cincinnati. "I don't have any problem with race at all. It's a historical sign."
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Meanwhile, in the world that does not exist inside of an Excel spreadsheet, thirty domestic violence cases have been turned back in Shawnee County since they stopped prosecuting this sort of crime almost a month ago. ...
Attention all you hedge fund readers: if these people can arbitrage and convexify their guinea pig market, you’d better not bet against their currency peg.
having the quality of a literary work that has been translated or changed from one form to another, as prose into verse.
The Leaf++ project was conceived by an artist interested in identifying leaves in the field and to add geo-tagged information about them for other people. A person takes a photo of a leaf with a phone and has it match the pattern to leaves in its database. If has been previously indentified, information about the leaf is presented. If not, the user can add information, including location, about the leaf. This information will be available to the next person who uses the app to identify the leaf.
[Do it for science! -L]
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