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Definitely not your average case of juvenile delinquency. This put a huge smirk on my face.

Again, Jon Stewart is doing the job "proper" news should be doing. This episode is the first where The Daily Show had a heckler. Please share this video with as many people as possible. You don't hear about it from mainstream media.

HT: houseofroberts, thanks a lot for the tip!

Is there anything more fascinating and beautiful than to see Nature at work?

This is why I love all kinds of scientific stuff it helps keeping our own importance in perspective.

As per our friend Houseofrobert's request, here's the Daily Show appearance of Billy Crudup

We are promised that this was the last interview. I sure hope not. The next one interviewing George W. Bush should be a judge.

I am choking back tears of utter glee...

We have to stop sending $ 700 billion overseas to countries that don't like us very much. Really?

It would be unnatural if the War in the Caucasus didn't dominate all the news in Europe. We are, after all, a lot closer to there, than the US. Moreover, the imperialistic tendencies of Putin's Russia are alarming many of us, anyway.

A short summary of the situation, as I read it up and/or recall it: Georgia is one of the few democratic states of the former Soviet Union countries. Far from perfect, Sakashvili's rule is less authoritarian than Putin's or his successor/handpuppet Medvedew's. Russia doesn't l

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When the Olympic games were in Moscow in 1980, half the world boycotted them, because of the Afghanistan war. The constraints and dependencies of today’s globalized economy forbid such a stance. President Bush will attend the opening ceremonies and McDonald’s is busily sponsoring the event.

Never mind Human Rights!