Doctors Group Endorses Weed for Medical Uses

A leading U.S. doctors group has endorsed using marijuana for medical purposes, urging the government to roll back a prohibition on using it to treat patients and supporting studies into its medical applications.

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Dumb and Dumber: Are Americans Hostile to Knowledge?

Something is happening in the U.S: Anti-intellectualism (the attitude that “too much learning can be a dangerous thing”) and anti-rationalism (“the idea that there is no such things as evidence or fact, just opinion”) have fused in a particularly insidious way. Citizens are ignorant about essential knowledge and they don't care.

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Jehovah's Witnesses the Fastest Growing Faith in the US

Time to disconnect the doorbell.

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Atheist Sees Image of Big Bang in Piece of Toast

Excitement is growing in the Northern England town of Huddlesfield following the news that a local man saw an image of the Big-Bang in a piece of toast. Atheist Donald Chapman, 36, told local newspaper, "The Huddlesfield Express" that he was sitting down to eat breakfast when an unusual toast pattern caught his eye.

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Holy shit, I can't believe this still happens in America

If you thought race was an uncomfortable issue in the Democratic presidential primary, wait 'til you get a load of what's going on in the Democratic primary in the Memphis area's 9th District of Tennessee, where a shockingly worded flier paints Jewish Rep. Steve Cohen (D-Tenn.) as a Jesus hater.

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"Imagine No Religion" Billboards Spark National Controversy

The national campaign is an effort to let Americans know that there is room for reason and clarity of thought, free from the dogma that organized religion uses to keep its flock in line; as well as donating.

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Cloverfield review

I'm going to have to make this brief, my beloved ibook died last night and I have to sneak this in before heading to work. I finally got around to seeing Cloverfield. I loved it! I don't know what people are talking about. I give it three and a half antlers up.

More later.

Emoose out

The Bible as Graphic Manga Novel, With a Samurai Stranger Called Christ

Ajinbayo Akinsiku wants the world to know Jesus Christ, just not the gentle, blue-eyed Christ of old Hollywood movies and illustrated Bibles. Mr. Akinsiku says his Son of God is “a samurai stranger who’s come to town, in silhouette,” here to shake things up in a new version of the Bible rooted in manga, the Japanese form of graphic novels.

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Ridiculous Christian Comic on Homosexuality

Crazy ass Christian comic explaining how gay people are evil and want to take over the world. The best part has to be the claim that gay people want to put Christians in prison. The demons are pretty cute though.

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GOP sources: Romney to suspend campaign

Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney will suspend his bid for the Republican presidential nomination, GOP sources tell CNN.

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Mississippi Law: "No fat people allowed in restaurants"

A politician was busy drafting legislation that would ban obese people from restaurants. It wasn't taken well by the public and he's been under fire for (in his words) "trying to shed light on the issue." If publicity for the issue is what he wanted, then publicity is what he'll get.

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American businesswoman jailed in Saudi - going to STARBUCKS!

The joys of the Muslim Sharia Law. An American businesswoman jailed in Saudi - for going to STARBUCKS!!!!

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More movie reviews

Let me use this opportunity to catch up on my reviews: 

30 Days of Night

I had high hopes for this one. It's an adaption of a graphic novel of the same name. I thought they did a great job of translating the claustrophobic and panic inducing  fear that the comic had. the movie had a few flaws, but they were minor. Josh Hartnett as the stoic sheriff was a bit wooden at times. The nasty vampires were...well nasty. There are some genuine scary moments and they kept the stomach churning gore so popular these days to a minimum.  

I give this movie: 3 antlers (out of 4)

Meet the Spartans

This is another case of all the funny bits being in the trailer. Don't waste your time. I wished I had waited for it to be available on Netflix.

I give this movie: 1 1/2 antlers (out of 4)

See you at the Multiplex

Emoose out

Galaxy without dark matter puzzles astronomers

What do you call an absence of darkness? Dark matter is supposed to be spread throughout the universe, but a new study reports a spiral galaxy that seems to be empty of the stuff, and astrophysicists cannot easily explain why.

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DNA Found to Have "Impossible" Telepathic Properties

DNA has been found to have a bizarre ability to put itself together, even at a distance, when according to known science it shouldn't be able to. Explanation: None, at least not yet.

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Online petition ask Wikipedia to remove pictures of Muhammad

An article about the Prophet Muhammad in the English-language Wikipedia has become the subject of an online protest in the last few weeks because of its representations of Muhammad, taken from medieval manuscripts.

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Mini cigarettes give tobacco goodness in half the time

People on break get nicotine fix and still get back to work on time!

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Poll: Quarter of Brits think Churchill, Gandhi were myth

Britons are losing their grip on reality, according to a poll out Monday which showed that nearly a quarter think Winston Churchill was a myth while the majority reckon Sherlock Holmes was real.

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Anonymous Victory - Katie Holmes leaving Tom Cruise?

The actress is said to be inconsolable after a string of leaked Scientology videos, featuring her husband saluting a portrait of Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard, declaring war on psychiatry and claiming that members of his religion are “the only ones who can really help” accident victims, have flooded the Internet and divided Hollywood.

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Heard the one about the muslim medical student

... who refused to scrub up? Well, its true.Muslim medical students are refusing to obey hygiene rules brought in to stop the spread of deadly superbugs, because they say it is against their religion.

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