According to the Costs of War project, which continues to assess the cost of the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts in the wake of the 9-11 attacks, the death toll attributable to direct violence from these wars currently stands at 300,000. The death toll from the 9-11 attacks was approximately 3000. This would put the “revenge […]
We are not going to destroy the Earth, but we are going to destroy our way of life. This is how the end begins. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIZTMVNBjc4]
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I’m catching up on Freakonomics podcasts, and was just listening to the first of two parts on the plague of phoney college degrees, with the chilling statistic that in the U.S. alone about 13,000 fake degrees are purchased each year, many which appear to be from legitimate institutions. There’s a simple solution – serial numbers:
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A picture on display at the Canadian Film Centre gets some treatment from…er…an anonymous employee. Norman Jewison coaches Clint Eastwood on the purpose of furniture. Clint is happy he got it all figured out.
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