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• CIA foiled al-Qaida plot to destroy US-bound airliner

  Mon May 7, 2012
  • Officials said the plot involved a bomb with a design that upgraded the underwear bomb taken aboard a jetliner over Detroit on Christmas 2009. That explosive device failed to detonate.

• Leaked: a plan to teach climate change skepticism in schools

  Wed Feb 15, 2012
  • Oh no, the paradigm! We must protect the paradigm! Think of the children!

• US licenses first nuclear reactors since 1978

  Thu Feb 9, 2012
  • New nuclear reactors are inherently safer than the reactors that suffered the "numerous nuclear accidents" the author cites (what, in this country? Only TMI and Enrico Fermi I, and no radiation was released from either...I suppose that counts as 'numerous' examples of 'no room for error') because …

• Oops! FBI uses chain saw on wrong door

  Wed Feb 1, 2012
  • If "they" (whoever) come at your house with a chainsaw, just keep a sledgehammer in easy reach. You can bend the bar, and then the chainsaw will be inoperable and won't be able to be retrieved through the same hole (because the chain will snag in the cut).

• Ahead of State of the Union, rating Obama's past promises

  Tue Jan 24, 2012
  • There’s no objective way to measure whether Obama has “beat back the politics of fear and doubt and cynicism” or ended “pretty grievances” and “recriminations.”

• How to get a cosmos from nothing

  Mon Jan 9, 2012
  • So if something (a particle) has a net energy of 0, it is no longer a thing and may be referred to as 'nothing'? This seems like an inherent contradiction. Oh no, it's not easy! Have a heart for the poor physicists!

• How to get a cosmos from nothing

  Mon Jan 9, 2012
  • What a quack this guy is. First of all, the article admits that "Scientists haven't figured out how to test" multiverse theory, so it cannot be 'scientific fact' - the best it can aspire to is some degree of plausibility in order for naturalistic scientists to put their faith in it a priori.

• 7 signs we're living in the post-privacy era

  Tue Jan 3, 2012
  • Sorry Prokhor (mind if I just call you 'Prok'?) but while that was true in the day when Orwell's 1984 was written, today you no longer need a person to watch every other person (or a group of 50 people part-time) looking for 'thought-crime' (formerly known as sedition).

• Live Vote: Predict the winner

  Tue Jan 3, 2012
  • So wait, now the media is "right-wing"? Which is it? Left or right? I think we can all agree they are corrupt, though.

• Where's MF clients' money? Follow the emails

  Wed Dec 21, 2011
  • Zinger: It looks like the financial system and the government have a blank-check relationship that Al Capone could hardly have dreamed of.