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Washington State's New Cell Phone Law Makes Honking Your Horn Fashionable Again

Not long ago, Washington state passed a hands-free/no texting cell phone law for drivers. The first week, you saw almost nobody on the phone while driving.

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Last Words Spoken Before Plane Crashes

'Ma, I love you...' 'We're finished!' It's a creepy website that documents the transcripts and allows you to listen to the cockpit voice recordings from plane crashes throughout the decades. Much is sad, the remainder is tragic.

Satire: You're NOT Paranoid - Everything Really IS a Conspiracy

In the dark, smoky rooms behind closed doors on the 13th floor of super-secret complexes you really thought were Dead Letter Mail offices, are the people who create The Conspiracies. They huddle together and forge ingenious plans to fool society and the world at large.

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The Strange World of the Wall Street Doomsday Investors

In the last few years, something strange has happened.

The Earth and The Lion

The old merchant ship cruised into the bay, slicing through cold blue water as smooth as glass. Sharp peaks of black stone towered above the harbor like the walls of a prison. Tiny icebergs bobbed up and down, reflecting their rainbow colors in every spectrum.

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Back At You, Suckerfish! Practical Joke at Yankees Game Uses the Jumbotron and a Fake Wedding Proposal

Good old Streeter and Amir, both employees of College Humor, have had a War of the Roses going for over a year pulling off hard core pranks on each other.

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Fox News Finishes Number 1 for 100th Straight Month - But MSNBC and Others Making Inroads

Fox News is still on top, but other news shows are finally making gains on them, including Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow. Glenn Beck, in particular, has lost ground at Fox.

The Complete McChrystal Article from Rolling Stone Magazine

'The Runaway General' starts out like this: 'Stanley McChrystal, Obama's top commander in Afghanistan, has seized control of the war by never taking his eye off the real enemy: The wimps in the White House...'

Top Ten Dumbest Things the Tea Party Supports

Because the nature of the Tea Party movement is fragmented, that is, there are more factions claiming Tea Party affilliation than the number of biker gangs on the West Coast, this writer drew a majority of the Tea Party platform points from their recent Maine 2010 GOP platform.

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'Captain Picard' of Star Trek Gets a Promotion - Patrick Stewart Knighted by the Queen of England

Patrick Stewart, former cast member of 'Star Trek - The Next Generation' and star of the Shakespearean stage, was knighted by the Queen in a ceremony earlier this month at Buckingham Palace.

100-Year-Old Ralph Martinson Finally Gets Degree from OSU After 80 Years

Martinson entered Oregon State University a couple of months before the Stock Market Crash of 1929. He dropped out in 1933 to buy into a grocery store, just a short time before graduation.

Distress Signal from Southern California Girl on Around-the-World Voyage Prompts Rescue Efforts

LOS ANGELES — A 16-year-old Southern California girl attempting a solo sail around the world was feared in trouble Thursday thousands of miles from land in the frigid, heaving southern Indian Ocean after her emergency beacons on her sailboat 'Wild Eyes' began signaling and sate …

Video - Dog Braves Freeway Traffic to Drag Another Injured Dog to Safety

Surveillance cameras from a freeway overpass in Chile show a stray dog being struck by a passing car - and then another dog crossing all the lanes in heavy traffic to drag the injured dog to safety. Amazing video.

Do Aliens REALLY Exist? Cartoons and Commentary

*Except for a slight change in the headline, this is an article I originally did two years ago at Newsvine. But since the recent discoveries on Titan pointed out by JoulesBeef, I figured it was worth a second look.*

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Frank 'Squirrel' Sinatra Sings 'Come Fly With Me'

Hmm. It's an animation and I'm fairly certain you haven't seen anything like it. Frank Sinatra's head mounted on a squirrel and singing in Cartoonland with a bunch of other weird characters. Strange, funny, and forgetful - all at the same time.

Evolution of a Family - The Amazing Thirty Year Photo Montage

For thirty-one years, Diego and Susy Goldberg have staged the same pose of their family members. This is the result. They made it a public domain image available at Pixdaus.

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Satire - Robert's Radical Idea to Stop the Gulf Leak - NUKE IT!

News sources report that B.P's 'top kill' plan to seal the oil pouring into the Gulf has failed. This means their process of dumping mud, rubber debris, and whatever else they have lying around was a complete dud. Maybe it's time to NUKE IT!

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A Memorial Day Tribute to My Friend 'Hutch' - A Better Man Than I

Well, I was in the Regular Army back in the Seventies, but I didn't see any action. In fact, I joined up the month after Saigon fell and never got past Missouri. So, my service was pretty minimal.

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Gary Coleman Dead

Former child star Gary Coleman died this morning. More at the link.

Obama Heckles His Heckler at Fundraiser for Barbara Boxer

Making a second fundraising appearance for Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Cali) on Tuesday evening, President Barack Obama got heckled by a protester demanding quicker action on Don't Ask Don't Tell. And then he heckled the heckler.

Space Shuttles For Sale - Less Than 130 Million Miles and New Paint

So you're in the market for a new vehicle. Any chance you'd consider one with more than 100 million miles on the odometer, a neat white paint job and a sticker price of $28.8 million? Probably not.

Alabama Teen Transforms Gas Pickup to Electric-Only With Great Results

NEW MARKET, AL - Sixteen year old Joel Tinker, a student at Covenant Christian Academy recently returned from the International Science and Engineering Fair held in San Jose, California with an honorable mention award.

Efforts by Republicans to Block Wall Street Reforms Will Be Remembered by Voters in November

Filibusters and games, anything to stop what the President proposes, joining in lockstep with their Republican colleagues, and here we go on the Crazy Train again.

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Don't Believe the Hype - Immigration Enforcement is Working, But Here's What Isn't

Forget the hyperventilated furor over the new Arizona immigration law and consider this overlooked fact: The number of illegal immigrants getting into the country has slowed to a relative trickle.

Just Another Brick - A Twisted Tale of Immigration Control

The latest effort to control illegal immigration into the United States is the barrier nearly 2,000 miles long between the U.S. and Mexico. It's very construction (and maintenance) is nothing but an exercise in folly, and a waste of taxpayer dollars.

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