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• 'Whoosh' sound of wind turbines too loud for some

  Tue Oct 5, 2010
  • Degrading the sonic environment without compensating homeowners is theft, pure and simple.

• Solar sail test could prove space-time theory

  Mon Jul 26, 2010
  • The claim that frame-dragging has never been experimentally tested is incorrect. That test was one of two key objectives of Gravity Probe B.

• Scientists find giant oil plumes under Gulf

  Sat May 15, 2010
  • 1.7 cubic miles. 1,876,900,000,000 gallons. Exxon Valdez was ~11,000,000 gallons. Largest spill in history according to wikipedia was 462,000,000 gallons. So if these numbers are correct, Deepwater Horizon is now the largest oil spill in history *by a factor of more than 4,000*.

• Is Erykah Badu's new video art or just obscenity?

  Mon Mar 29, 2010
  • She's fat.

• Child’s church picture of stirs Lenteen passions

  Sun Mar 21, 2010
  • Censors always say they're not censors, it's just that <fill in excuse>.The ridiculous thing about this is how well the kid understood what the Romans did to Jesus. It's in the Bible. They could look it up.

• Where does Peyton Manning rank among NFL QBs?

  Wed Feb 3, 2010
  • Guys, guys--so far he's been to the post-season nine times and won one measley Superbowl. *Troy Aikman* has more Superbowl rings than this post-season choker. To consider him the 'greatest ever" dishoners real quarterbacks.

• Would you get debarking surgery for your dog if you faced eviction?

  Wed Feb 3, 2010
  • Pet owners are inconsiderate about the noise their idiotic animals make. They seem to think the sound is cute. It's not. It's loud, repetitive, annoying, and generally illegal. Debark the dog, or give it away, or put it to sleep, but one way or another stop being such a pest.

• Favre, Manning have nothing to prove? Wrong

  Fri Jan 22, 2010
  • You've got to be kidding! MVP awards and all the honors in the world don't mean a thing compared to actual post-season wins. This elevation to greatness of quarterbacks who can't win big games is a disgrace. When did we start rewarding mediocre outcomes?

• Should President Obama decline the invitation to give this year's commencement address at Notre Dame?

  Thu Apr 9, 2009
  • Good grief, you people need to get over yourselves. A college is a place for *learning*, not for following dogma. The idea of a Catholic university is pretty much a contradiction in terms, but at least some students manage to graduate without having become complete morons.

• Alderman: Residents should arm themselves

  Tue Dec 2, 2008
  • There are a number of studies showing that guns have stopped crimes--millions of them--and that crime rates go down when citizens are armed.