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http://news.yahoo.com/vatican-stunned-irish-embassy-closure-131052801.html If this is only about money and scandals, then I have to wonder why it took so long. Could this have anything to do with the election of an atheist president? Will other countries likely close their embassies in VC as...

Just when we thought Mississippi was the new craziest state, it seems that Michigan is determined to outpace it in the race to the Bronze Age. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/03/gretchen-whitmer-michigan-senator-bullying-bill_n_1073928.html Senator Whitmer's speech: zDK-ja8PLgg...

The good state of Mississippi is about to take a brave leap into the 19th century. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/26/us/politics/personhood-amendments-would-ban-nearly-all-abortions.html?_r=1 Aaaaand it's reasons like this that I continue harping on religion: it has no business influencing...

Kind of hard to "RIP" a guy who had billions and didn't like giving to charity. Just saying.

http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/58IWe7/www.rawstory.com/rawreplay/2011/05/san-francisco-man-becomes-first-in-history-to-be-cured-of-aids/ So, where do we go now, sweet children of mine? Does the future of stem cell research look bright in light of this possible breakthrough or will it be more...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/8154490/Chinese-villagers-descended-from-Roman-soldiers.html So historians, biologists, anthropologists, and everyone here in between: is there something to this or not? Are they Romans? Huns? Lizard people?

I am considering pursuing a PhD in Medieval Studies and part of my interest is in Arab history, science and literature in the centuries of and following the Muslim conquests. Trouble is, I am a complete noob in this field, though what little I know has intrigued me. Can anyone prescribe some...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_theticket/20101115/pl_yblog_theticket/almost-5-million-people-watched-sarah-palins-alaska I suppose this is linguistically kosher from a technical standpoint, but it really skirts the borders of legitimate vernacular. What's next, adding the word "nucular?" And...

For negligence, apparently: This is from NY Times. I wonder what the point of suing a 4-year-old is if they can't actually pay the settlement. Why not just sue the parents? I don't know much about law, so some one fill me in on why this may not be profoundly stupid.

Have to admit, this is surprising coming from Juan Williams. IIRC, Osama bin Laden's own instructions to terrorist sleeper cells is to not appear Muslim and try to blend in with secular Americans so as to avoid this sort of suspicion, so why are people afraid of the obvious Muslims like this...

http://www.nydailynews.com/gossip/2010/09/30/2010-09-30_snooki_the_author_talk_about_a_reach.html?r=news I thought Twilight and Justin Bieber's memoirs would be the lowest that the publishing world could sink, but I was wrong. One of the Jersey Shore girls is going to take up the pen now...

http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/09/30/new.jersey.student.suicide/index.html?hpt=T2 It's happened again. Another young person is dead over something so trivial as sexuality. Well, most people don't see it as trivial, but they should. In this case, it's because successful troll is successful...

I just installed CIV on my laptop, and the game runs quite slowly despite that most of my computer's specs are way above minimum, except for the video card which is exactly the minimum. I just think it's odd that having a 64 MB video card would cause the game to be so irritatingly slow. I...

Monarch has been a little too easy for quite a while now. My current style of playing: 1) Random Civ/leader on shuffle 2) Expand until there's no more room or worthwhile land. Chariot or axe rush if boxed in early. 3) Classical war on juiciest target with swordsmen and catapults...

I really don't understand how this thing works. I know how it's supposed to work, but for some reason it doesn't work that way for me. Last game as Justinian, I built the AP under Buddhism and spread it to one city of each civ in the game. I kept getting voted as resident but a victory vote...

After seeing the screenshots for this scenario, I was pretty stoked about it. That stokey feeling slowly turned to disappointment as I played though. Well, I should say it quickly turned to disappointment since I couldn't even bring myself to finish the first level. Now, I like the whole...