God created Chick-fil-A, not Dick-fil-A

Rand Paul Supporter Stomps Head Of Female MoveOn Member Outside KY Debate

Three Minute Fiction more inside

Arnold Schwarzenegger is gay ... more inside

This Is Alabama; We Speak English The Republican gubernatorial candidate [Tim James] is running a provocative ad arguing that Alabama's driver's license exam should be given only in English. more inside

Don't worry , "this feature was only used for the narrow purpose of locating a lost, stolen or missing laptop." Except, "the assistant principal told him the camera had caught him doing something inappropriate at home."

Reconstructing 1549 The NTSB released the public docket for Flight 1549 on June 9, 2009 containing a wealth of information that can be utilized in a full 3D reconstruction of the accident. more inside

Overseas and Overwhelmed 25 Stories of Culture Shock

Court rules against crucifixes The European Court of Human Rights ruled Tuesday that the display of crucifixes in Italian public schools violates religious and education freedoms more inside

Home Depot Employee Fired Over God Button "I've worn it for well over a year and I support my country and God," Trevor Keezor said Tuesday. "I was just doing what I think every American should do, just love my country." more inside

Hotel Owner Orders Hispanic Workers To Anglicize Names more inside

Interracial couple denied marriage license in La. more inside

Social Security number code "cracked" For people born after 1988 — when the government began issuing numbers at birth — the researchers were able to identify, in a single attempt, the first five Social Security digits for 44 percent of individuals. And they got all nine digits for 8.5 percent of those people in fewer than 1,000 attempts. more inside

My daddy said the movie made his soul sick and he wants his money back. 7 year old's review of Transformers 2.

Jury rules against Minn. woman in download case - $1.92 million/24 songs: Exorbitant fine or just desert?

Coffee or ... (SLYT) more inside

Curious George: Air Force One photo-flop? Normally, I just roll my eyes at this kind of media/public reaction to non-events, but in this case, I tend to agree with the "what the hell were they thinking" crowd. Comments?

A small bat that was spotted blasting off with the space shuttle Sunday and clinging to the back side of Discovery's external fuel tank apparently held on throughout the launch. more inside

Urban Sketchers is a network of artists around the world who draw the cities where they live and travel to. [They] have this blog, which is by invitation, a Flickr group, where anyone can share their location drawings, and a Google group to stay connected and foster discussion.

Young Quanzhi Ye's dream. In 1996, a 7-year-old boy in China bent over the eyepiece of a small telescope and saw something that would change his life--a comet of flamboyant beauty, bright and puffy with an active tail. At first he thought he himself had discovered it, but no, he learned, two men named "Hale" and "Bopp" had beat him to it. Mastering his disappointment, young Quanzhi Ye resolved to find his own comet one day. And one day, he did. more inside