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Not to be a jerk or anything, but it kind of seems like a stupid question: should we find new ways to feed and maintain our addiction to oil, or decrease our reliance on the fossil fuels that are empoverishing our people and altering our fragile climate? These folks think they have the answer: I [...]

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When politicians throw a party, their organizers work long and hard in the shadows to make sure people come. Usually this is easier said than done, and a good speech’s impact can be quickly deflated by a TV cameraman’s pan shot of a skimpy, scattered, ragtag-looking crowd. So for organizers, there are a few rules [...]

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Someone has dug up a very trippy poem by a 20-year-old Barack Obama, penned back in 1981: Under water grottos, caverns Filled with apes That eat figs Stepping on the figs That the apes Eat, they crunch The apes howl, bare Their fangs, dance, Tumble in the Rushing water Musty, wet pelts Glistening in the [...]

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In a shocking revelation, CNN says an “unspoken demographic” (racist white people) may not vote for Obama because he’s black: As both Sens. Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton race to make history, some political observers believe Obama might have a unique problem because he’s African-American. They claim voters often say they’ll go one way, then [...]

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UPDATE: NPR says this speech has supplanted the usual drunken cats and Star Wars fanvids as Youtube’s most viewed video today. As a Canadian, I really don’t have a vested interest in how the U.S. election turns out — at least, not any more than the other six billion or so people whose lives are [...]

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