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Sugar is delicious. It makes a bad day a little brighter; it makes food taste a little better; it makes cupcakes and pies. Sure, it may not be good for us, but why would we ever want to get rid of it? Well, we wouldn't want to, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't. At least that's what a new commentary published in the most recent issue of Nature argues. It may not be a bad idea, but you can bet there will be a whole nation of sweet-toothed people clutching their candy necklaces and screaming, "Do not fucking touch my dessert!" More »
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Well, so much for our neighbors to the north being a paragon of politeness and acceptance. There's been a disturbing change made to Canadian airport security screening rules which means that now transgender people are not allowed to board airplanes in the country. That is obviously hugely problematic and insane for any number of reasons. Let's look at how things ended up in this sorry state. More »
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Today, Virginia's Board of Health is voting on a bill that would essentially put the vast majority of the state's first-trimester abortion clinics out of business by regulating them like hospitals. More »
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In the wake of a controversial decision to pull sexually themed applications from the iTunes store, Apple is toying with adding a new "explicit" category to its current offerings. While my inner feminist cheers, my inner technophile is concerned. More »
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Last night's first-of-two part interview of Sarah Palin by Katie Couric — not exactly known for her hard-boiled interview technique — proved a couple of things to me. First, the terrible interview she did with Charlie Gibson was not a fluke. Second, there really is only one reason that McCain camp wants to "reschedule" the Vice Presidential debate that they already insisted be re-formatted to accommodate Palin's shortcomings: That reason is that she sucks at speaking extemporaneously — Sarah, if you're reading this, that means "without a teleprompter" — and she was obviously as poorly vetted as the McCainiadenied she was at the time she was nominated. More »
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The Swiss Animal Protection Agency has released a harrowing report that chronicles the Chinese fur trade, which produces approximately 85 percent of the world's fur products and whose animal treatment is almost completely unregulated. Although the practices employed — beating animals with a metal or wooden stick or swinging the animal until it slams to the ground, then skinning it alive — are horrifying, SAPA spokesman Mark Rissi said that fur producers had no qualms about opening their farms to the organization: "As animals are considered objects in China, there is little or no awareness for the suffering of these sentient beings," he said, essentially describing a stark cultural divide, and adding that "the cruelty found was beyond our expectations, and it was hard to document without interfering. It caused nightmares to the team." (Warning: the descriptions and videos are very graphic. Possibly NSFW - certainly upsetting.) [World Net Daily] More »
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