] Former Republican Sen. J. Strom Thurmond of South
] Carolina, the longest-serving member of the upper house
] of Congress, died Thursday night. He was 100.

For real, or did CNN just accidentally post his obit prematurely again?

Strom Thurmond dead at 100

] It's not the beak... It's the Motion!

My boyfriend is working on a project for which he needs a motor that runs underwater... he came across this while looking on e-bay. Or at least that's what his e-mail claimed.

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] NEWTON, New Jersey (AP) -- County Democratic officials
] want a state Senate candidate to quit the race over a
] nude photo contest he entered, but Jim Morrison says he's
] in to stay.
]
] "If people want to know about it, they should know I won
] the contest," the 32-year-old attorney said.

YEAH NEW JERSEY!

Senate candidate's nude photos cause debate

] LONDON (AP) -- Eminem stunned tens of thousands of people
] attending a concert in England by giving a necklace
] estimated at $450,000 to one of his fans.

And my love for Eminem grows and grows..

Eminem Gives Fan $450K Gift

Elonka wrote:
] ] It's difficult to say exactly how many of the 113
] ] million married Americans are too exhausted or too grumpy
] ] to get it on, but some psychologists estimate that 15 to
] ] 20 percent of couples have sex no more than 10 times a
] ] year, which is how the experts define sexless marriage.
] ] And even couples who don't meet that definition
] ] still feel like they're not having sex as often as
] ] they used to.
]
] Now the question is, are the numbers reflective of a change in
] sexuality from how things were a hundred years ago? Or are we
] just getting better statistics to prove something that already
] existed?

I think it's a little of both, actually..mostly a change in sexuality but also a little change in statistics. I will tell you that from personal experience, things change when you're married (or in my case, living together) and dual-income.. I come home from work absolutely exhausted, so does he.. and when we come home there are still things that need to be done... bills need to be paid, laundry needs to be done, errands need running.. it's all the little mundane things. I can tell you right now that I will be having sex on Saturday morning, that's "our time for sex". Before we were living together, and even after we were living together but before I started working too, it was at least 5 or 6 times a week. Now imagine being married and with children. We'll get down to once a month, maybe 6 times a year. Who knows, but I mean if I'm this exhausted now at 26 and without kids, imagine what it'll be like 5, 10 years from now? I think a lot of it has to do with a change in sexuality of how things were 100 years ago.

Then again, 100 years ago, sex was a taboo subject, you couldn't talk about this! Even 50 years ago, sex was considered a "wifely duty" but as the article mentioned, women became unashamed and in control of their sexuality! Go women!!!! But along with women being in control came women being in control of their careers, women were working, they realized that they were not put on this earth merely to bear and raise children and that that was okay. Along with that came the exhaustion of working full-time.

I think also our statistics are better, as people become more willing to talk about a previously taboo subject, they are more willing to answer such questions honestly. So it's possible that this problem has always existed.. not to this degree, of course... 50 years ago I'm sure women were too exhausted for sex but they were less likely to say "no" than they are today.

RE: Newsweek: Are Married Couples Having Less Sex?

] LONDON, England (AP) -- The real Slim Shady stood up and
] made fun of Michael Jackson by dangling a baby doll over
] a hotel balcony.

That's awesome!! I like Eminem even more now.

Eminem mocks Jackson, dangles doll

] Many of the more than 3,600 death row inmates nationwide,
] as well as defendants and offenders at other points in
] the capital punishment system, have not received the
] quality of legal representation that the severity and the
] finality of a death sentence demand.

Old news, but interesting... The ABA wants a moratorium on the death penalty, essentially because convictions in our legal system are more often a function of wealth rather then guilt.

American Bar Association on the Death Penalty

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As remarkable as the cat-drawing lesson was, it was just a hint of Snyder's work and its implications for the study of cognition. He has used TMS dozens of times on university students, measuring its effect on their ability to draw, to proofread and to perform difficult mathematical functions like identifying prime numbers by sight. Hooked up to the machine, 40 percent of test subjects exhibited extraordinary, and newfound, mental skills. That Snyder was able to induce these remarkable feats in a controlled, repeatable experiment is more than just a great party trick; it's a breakthrough that may lead to a revolution in the way we understand the limits of our own intelligence -- and the functioning of the human brain in general.

Savant for a Day

] NEW YORK (Reuters) -- A New York teenager alleged on
] Thursday that teachers violated her civil rights when
] they suspended her from school for wearing a "Barbie is a
] Lesbian" T-shirt.

Nobody would bat an eye if she was wearing a "Ken is a fag" t-shirt because everyone knows that's true anyway.

Teen sues over 'lesbian Barbie' shirt ban