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Discussed today at the office: Moonshine found in truck stopped for weaving
Why exactly is this noteworthy? From the article:
Guffey told authorities he parked his truck with nearly $3,000 inside it in Flag Pond, took a walk and came back to find it full of moonshine.
He said he has been buying whiskey like that in [...]

Government must deal with greenhouse gases: US Supreme Court

“The harms associated with climate change are serious and well recognized,” said judge John Paul Stevens as the ruling was carried by five votes in favor to four against.

Reeeeally. A recent documentary “The Great Global Warming Swindle” (Google Video, YouTube, Wikipedia info) offers some of the [...]

Forwarded to me, with the note “In case you needed to get your heartrate up…”.
He wasn’t kidding: http://littledemocrats.net/
Be sure to see the sample pages — my “favorite” is the illustration used to show mommy keeping her children safe: preventing them from being trampled by an elephant. What a quaint and clever jab [...]

Stumbled across this tonight. Replace the 8 “N”s in the following link with a largish 8-digit number (numbers starting with 4021 were working reasonably well) to find random peoples photo albums on PhotoWorks:
http://www.photoworks.com/util/slideShowLarge2.jsp?stackID=NNNNNNNN
A lot of numbers don’t work …but some do.
It’s a not un-weird experience. I can’t say that I recommend [...]

Neal tipped me off to this article at IndustryWeek.com: Tax Cheats Snub Spend-Crazy Feds. The article (obviously) focuses on people who cheat on their returns, but the groundwork numbers the author lays at the beginning are staggering:

2005 total compensation earned: $8.2 trillion
2005 federal income taxes: $932 billion ($6,650 per employee)
2005 other federal taxes (mostly [...]