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Why is it that when someone, like Nancy Pelosi, criticizes the President, she's seen as criticizing the troops?

The President and his men need to stop using American soldiers as a political shield.

Move over, Nascar dads.

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It looks positively scary outside. I wonder if we are expecting any tornadoes this afternoon.

Wow, green sky which turned to black, bent trees, dime-sized hail, the works. The power flickered several times, but never went completely out.

For a while, the hail was coming down, but not down. Rather sideways.

That's quite the picture.

Where Did They Put Their Ticket Stubs?

Over 80 British students threw caution and their clothes to the wind Friday to set a world record for the number of nudes riding on a rollercoaster.

Here's my kind of story.

What Is She Thinking About During Sex?

Women watching erotic films are stimulated in a part of the brain associated with planning and emotion, research from scientists in Germany said Friday.

When scientists from Essen University put volunteers in a brain scanning tube and showed them pornography they found both men and women showed activity in the temporal lobes linked to memory and perception, but only women used their frontal lobes.

Unfortunately the researchers were not able to determine if their findings meant that while men lost themselves in the moment the busy modern professional woman was also planning her wardrobe, scheduling the vacation and juggling her tax receipts.

"We don't know why these differences between men and women exist. They just do," said institute director Michael Forsting.


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I'd like to say that paragraph 3 is a wee bit sexist. Damned Reuters writers.

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Here's a couple of images of the storm.

There was a tornado warning stretching from Des Moines to Chicago a couple of hours ago. That line of storms was headed our way. I keep hearing emergency noises issuing from my mom's TV.

I love rough weather.