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Your Passion is Blue

You are a total dream in the bedroom. Sex is a fine art for you - and you're a total Picasso in your pleasure making. You like to build things up slowly, savoring each moment. And you'd never think of skipping foreplay or afterplay... they're part of the package.

What Color Is Your Passion?

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Finally, finally, the mainstream media is paying attention to the Gannon/Guckert situation and properly calling it a scandal. (That is, many mainstream outlets except Fox News. They declined to cover the story when it first broke, and now if they did, they might be embarrassed to be Johnny-come-lately.)

( All Gannon, all the time. )

Oh, and someone is finally asking why Robert Novak isn't heading to jail with the other journalists involved in the Plame leak.

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Brightest galactic flash ever detected hits Earth

A huge explosion halfway across the galaxy packed so much power it briefly altered Earth's upper atmosphere in December, astronomers said Friday.

The blast originated about 50,000 light-years away and was detected Dec. 27. A light-year is the distance light travels in a year, about 6 trillion miles (10 trillion kilometers).

The commotion was caused by a special variety of neutron star known as a magnetar. These fast-spinning, compact stellar corpses -- no larger than a big city -- create intense magnetic fields that trigger explosions. The blast was 100 times more powerful than any other similar eruption witnessed, said David Palmer of Los Alamos National Laboratory, one of several researchers around the world who monitored the event with various telescopes.

"Had this happened within 10 light-years of us, it would have severely damaged our atmosphere and possibly have triggered a mass extinction," said Bryan Gaensler of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA).

[...] "This is a once-in-a-lifetime event," said Rob Fender of Southampton University in the UK. "We have observed an object only 20 kilometers across [12 miles], on the other side of our galaxy, releasing more energy in a tenth of a second than the sun emits in 100,000 years."

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Rethinking surgery on 'intersex' babies