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'Flash Crashes' are here to stay; get used to them
Mon May 6, 2013
- I worked in the OTC stock market for years for a principal broker. The stock market is the largest legal gambling operation in the world. Which is OK. Life is full of gambles. Risk. It would be awfully dull otherwise. That said, the volatility of the market is due to emotion-based risk assessment. I …
Parents: Police removed our child after we sought second medical opinion
Wed May 1, 2013
- In reply to: Andy Blackwood #15 Well, thank you, Andy, for your death wish for me and my friends and for a lot of very good people who hate the Cal. state bureaucracy as much as you do. We shall all do our best to die as soon as possible so we can make your day. And, in return, I wish you and all o …
The latest plan to 'fix' Social Security has plenty of critics
Tue Apr 30, 2013
- How does one fix a Ponzi scheme? This has been predictable since Day One and not confronted since Day Two.
Wal-Mart's staffing levels criticized over not-so-fresh groceries
Fri Apr 5, 2013
- "The company is throwing its supply-chain and inventory management expertise..." Say what? Many is the time I have gone in for a common item only to find an empty space on the shelf. WalMart executives' feelings of supply-chain and inventory expertise are quite delusional. "Just in time" supply line …
Duggars reveal gender of their next grandchild, discuss adoption
Mon Apr 1, 2013
- In reply to: Ga.mom #9 You wrote, "instead of having your nose is someone else's business that clearly has nothing to do with you." It clearly DOES have something to do with all of us who have to live on an overpopulated planet. Their inappropriate procreation is stressing OUR planet and using OUR …
Internet's spammy, scammy 'bad neighborhoods' mapped by study
Fri Mar 15, 2013
- "Perhaps, they suggest, if we take action against the whole neighborhood, the neighborhood will try to improve its own standing." What a great idea! Let's punish people because they live in the wrong neighborhood. Then maybe they will pick up the torches and pitchforks and be vigilantes! Let's …
Grieving husband blasts 'medieval' cancer treatment
Wed Mar 13, 2013
- The USA is just as restrictive about finding treatment outside of the slash/burn/poison of "modern" medicine. Modern medicine is absolutely amazing at handling trauma. Gotta give 'em full credit for this. However, when it comes to anything long term like cancer, heart disease, diabetes ....... well, …
Oops: Kia car name stirs controversy in Northern Ireland
Wed Mar 6, 2013
- It's a product name, not a political statement. There is a car model out there called "Armada;" although this behemoth is as big as an aircraft carrier, it still is ridiculous to call it "Navy" in Spanish. Nothing beats Chevy naming a car marketed all over, including Latin America, the Nova, w …
Get a closer look at the Middle East's plague of locusts
Tue Mar 5, 2013
- Protein. An all-you-can-eat buffet. People have eaten locusts for many thousands of years. Bon appetit.
Man sues parents for not loving him enough
Sat Feb 23, 2013
- The character of a man is evident in the way he plays the hand he was dealt, not in the cards themselves. Sometimes I go about in pity for myself, and all the while a great wind carries me across the sky.

Questions & Answers

Teens banned from shopping alone on Black Friday at Mall of America
It's reasonable
Dad says watching childbirth put him off sex for a year; women play world's tiniest violin for him
Yes, and he got right in there: That's a dad's first job, man up and grab a leg!
Is 12 too old to trick or treat?
11-13
'Mom gene' discovered in mice: Do you have it?
No, I was never really interested in children -- until I had my own!
Three-year medical mystery explained: Lego up the nose
No
SC mom busted at kid's graduation: 'I cheered for my baby and I got the cuffs'
No.
Teen suspended for controversial anti-bullying video returning to school
No. The school overstepped its authority.
Should kids go vegan?
Not for me or my family, but it seems fine.
Family removed from plane due to unruly toddler wanted a 'little bit of humanity'
No -- the carrier should have more compassion for the stress and difficulty of flying with young children.
Pregnancy bias is alive and well in America
Yes
- Boss looked at me like I was a ticking bomb. He was terrified I was going to pop right then and there! (It was a law firm, too. Go figure.)

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