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"When the doctrine of allegiance to party can utterly up-end a man's moral constitution and make a temporary fool of him besides, what excuse are you going to offer for preaching it, teaching it, extending it, perpetuating it?
Shall you say, the best good of the country demands allegiance to party? Shall you also say it demands that a man kick his truth and his conscience into the gutter, and become a mouthing lunatic, besides?"
~ Samuel Clemens
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Pedophiles on your coaching staff, steroid abuse and paying/bribing players in your recruitment efforts are controversial. Sorry. But I prefer the bowl game format and this never was a real controversy, IMHO. Probably more about selling tickets and maybe a bit of a "Squirrel!" to keep your mind off of the real problems in higher education, like privatization and the corrupted and money sucking sports programs:
Football playoff unveiled
Boston.com
WASHINGTON - After 14 years of controversy and barroom debate, big-time college football will finally get a postseason playoff in the 2014 season.
Wanna buy the equivalent of some swampland in Florida? Because these stocks probably won't be worth the paper they are printed on or for:
News Corp. Considers Split in 2, Stock Jumps
ABC News
Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. is preparing to spin off its newspaper business into a separate company, an acknowledgement that the printed page that gave rise to a media empire will never again be central to its future.
Who would have thought bullets weren't safe for wildlife? In more ways than one?
Lead poisoning is ravaging bird population in California: Study
The Bunsen Burner
The California condor's return from near extinction is threatened by persistent exposure to lead-based bullets, despite intensive efforts to treat and care for poisoned birds each year, scientists say.
Considering MicroSoft had a tablet before the iPad existed and Star Trek had tablets before MS... And also considering I have never seen anyone actually using a Galaxy Tablet? This just seems like a waste of the court's time.
Apple wins US Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 sales ban
SlashGear
Apple has won a preliminary sales injunction against Samsung's Galaxy Tab 10.1 in the US, the biggest blow so far in the two company's ongoing patent war.
I bet this will look like the Galaxy knockoff of the Apple knockoff of the MS knockoff of Star Trek's original tablet too:
Google 'to launch Android tablet at I/O'
Telegraph.co.uk
Google is widely expected to announce its first tablet computer when it begins its annual developer conference in California tomorrow.
And you thought standing in line with your weekends worth of condoms or some tampons for your wife was embarrassing? Seems to me that Planned Parenthood or even your local doctor would be a more discreet choice for this:
CDC program aims to make HIV testing the norm
San Francisco Chronicle
Would you go to a pharmacy to get tested for the AIDS virus?
Like most Americans, I am confident that I have less money to spend on frivolous things like food and housing than last year:
Consumer confidence continues to decline
Detroit Free Press
Americans can't seem to shake their uneasy feeling about the economy.
Consumer confidence fell in June for the fourth-straight month as worries about jobs and the overall economy outweighed relief at the gas pump and an improvement in the housing market, according to a private research group.
The decline was modest; the Conference Board said Tuesday that its Consumer Confidence Index fell from 64.4 in May to 62 in June. But the four-month slide from 71.6 in February is significant and corresponds with a slowdown in hiring by U.S. companies over the same period.
Blog Posts of Note:
LaEscapee does 100% of the funny math for you:
2+2 = Sense
I'll leave you with more CSN and another quote that very funny author...
"Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please."
~ Samuel Clemens