If you spend any time on twitter, this will make you both chuckle and wince.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/tomphillips/the-29-stages-of-a-twitterstorm

I wish I could get my sister to read this...she's of the "I'll catch a pastry at the train station vending machine" ilk.

http://www.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnhum.2013.00631/full#

And the investigative units that would investigate it for details are furloughed.

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/10/shutdown-salmonella/

I'm amused by the more detailed commentary remarking that the (presumed Mexican) weed was of inferior quality to the usual Santa Cruz fare (one presumes locally-grown ( Read more... )

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Expect to be busy until October or so.

Governments really need to do something to rein-in bankers, worldwide. They're acting like toddlers holding their breaths until they turn blue.http://www.dailymail.co.uk/money/news/article-2384003/Consulates-Vatican-chaos-

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It's hard to believe the same species that built a spacecraft capable of returning such images and data also created Jersey Shore.

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Weather being what it's been in the southeast this week, I suggest Detriot revamp their economy by starting to make these again, for sale to the southeastern US in the evolving climate:


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