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• How a typo led to a marriage

  Thu Jan 26, 2012
  • I think you mean serendipity.

• Gingrich rages against the GOP machine

  Thu Jan 26, 2012
  • Ants and elephants are both annoying in this context.

• Gingrich rages against the GOP machine

  Thu Jan 26, 2012
  • "Let's vote out the Wall St. right, and vote in the nazi reich."

• Letters from solitary confinement reveal DWI man's despair

  Thu Jan 26, 2012
  • They talk about reprimanding and terminations of jail house employees. This is a larger issue. People need to be charged criminally, and that jail house shut down. It's embarrassing how these types of cases get written off as "oh he just fell through the cracks:".

• NBC/WSJ poll: Majority would vote out every member of Congress

  Thu Jan 26, 2012
  • Don't fool yourself on term limits. All that leads to is cronies being elected one after another. When a congressman's term limit is up, their assistant or "deputy" runs on a platform acting like an extension or continuation of their predecessor's policies.

• NBC/WSJ poll: Majority would vote out every member of Congress

  Thu Jan 26, 2012
  • The problem is that starting at the local level, political parties don't run primaries against their incumbent candidate, so you're stuck with that candidate. In the end, the people would rather vote for their favored party again, rather than the other party.

• Apple accused of ignoring labor abuses that can kill

  Thu Jan 26, 2012
  • MManor, don't be naive. Just about any smartphone worth its salt is made in similar Chinese sweatshots like Apple.

• Apple accused of ignoring labor abuses that can kill

  Thu Jan 26, 2012
  • I think most commentors sell Americans short in saying they dont care about what happens to others in foreign countries or the poor, in general. Any reasonable, morally sane person cares.

• Australia's Gillard dragged away from Aboriginal rights protest

  Thu Jan 26, 2012
  • Is Abbott a transplanted Republican? His attitude and statements are on par with clueless right in America. "Those good ole brownies have down really good for themselves. Now we've had enough of their uppitiness, and it's time they get back to their expected social status."

• 3 years after US accident, boat washes up in Spain

  Wed Jan 25, 2012
  • Most pieces of "plastic" that big will float for years in the ocean. This is only news because it's a larger piece, while there are literally tons and tons and tons of junk floating in the ocean. Don't be amazed at the life of something made to NOT biodegrade.