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• Wild elephant tramples teen to death

  Mon Nov 8, 2010
  • People who are more familiar with outdoor living than I have said that there are ways humans can co-exist with large wildllife, including grizzlies, Bengal tigers, urban pumas, and elephants. Soem common sense is just required.

• Pocahontas' wedding site found

  Wed Oct 27, 2010
  • Oh yes, of course, because everyone knows it would be impossible for a true maid of the First Nations to ever marry a white man voluntarily. Sorry, I don't spend 12 minutes every morning contemplating my navel and chanting "everything I came from was wrong, wrong, wrong."

• A museum dedicated to China's cruelest cut

  Wed Oct 27, 2010
  • Infibulation is a regional practice, and doen by the local "pagan" tribes as well as by Muslims. It is not characteristic of all Muslim nations.

• Ship ablaze hundreds of miles from shore

  Wed Oct 27, 2010
  • I self-censored that because I didn't want to plug a rival service here on MSNBC. Personally, I enjoy my self-righteousness.

• Ship ablaze hundreds of miles from shore

  Wed Oct 27, 2010
  • Vivian: "europe" doesn't have any submarines, some of the coutnries in it do. The sub which ran aground was British, not Danish.

• Ship ablaze hundreds of miles from shore

  Wed Oct 27, 2010
  • Yeldar: The Faroe Islands are a Danish territory and have nothing to do with the Pharoahs of egypt. And it said the *entire* crew was Chinese, Russian, Peruvian, and from the Scandinavian countries.

• 'Hiccup Girl' charged with first-degree murder

  Mon Oct 25, 2010
  • Phoenix-Flame: Overthinking is *fun*. I for one *enjoy* my self-righteousness and I'm sure other people enjoy their own.

• Cash payments from Iran 'normal,' Karzai says

  Mon Oct 25, 2010
  • I think we fear Iran too much, at least that's how it looks from this room of the ultra-right wing. This is a logical sphere of influence for them. They are heading for their own version of a Color Revolution and once that happens we'll be glad of their influence.

• Hungary has toxic sludge, U.S. has red dust

  Fri Oct 22, 2010
  • Plus under how many Democratic Administrations, Federal and state, did these accumulate? Quite a few, I'm sure. How old are these plants anyway?

• A false rape conviction, 22 years in prison — and now an $18.5 million award

  Wed Oct 20, 2010
  • I read about these exoneration projects all the time, prisoners of every race and I think they're stupid. Regardless of legal innocence, who wnats someone walking on the street afetr 20-plus years inside.