Monifa, a gorilla at the San Francisco Zoo, isn’t properly caring for her newborn.  Then the article goes overboard.

Dogs have an intuitive understanding of fair play and become resentful if they feel that another dog is getting a better deal, a new study has found. The study, in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, looked at how dogs react when a buddy is rewarded for the same trick in an unequal way. Friederike Range, a researcher at the University of Vienna in Austria, and her colleagues

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Is it a chronic case of teh gay?  I hope you’re better, soon. Some same-sex marriage supporters are urging people to “call in gay” Wednesday to show how much the country relies on gays and lesbians, but others question whether it’s wise to encourage skipping work given the nation’s economic distress. Organizers of “Day Without a Gay” — scheduled to coincide with International Human Rights Day and modeled after similar

David Thompson provides the follow-up to Bill Ayers’ absurd self-justification: Eco-hippies break into Stansted Airport, disrupting flights for 3 days. The Guardian thinks it’s all in a good cause. “It’s odd how some are so keen to dismiss the ‘normal democratic processes’ in favour of undemocratic, criminal – and much more exciting – avenues. Specifically, avenues unburdened by details like persuasion, verification and reasoned argument, and which instead hold passengers

When the Washington Nationals played their first-ever baseball game in the nation’s capital in April 2005, two congressmen who oversaw mortgage giant Freddie Mac had choice seats — courtesy of the very company they were supposed to be keeping an eye on. Efforts to tighten government regulation were gaining support on Capitol Hill, and Freddie Mac was fighting back. The baseball tickets for home opener were means of influence. According

in Oxford Children’s Dictionary: Oxford University Press has removed words like “aisle”, “bishop”, “chapel”, “empire” and “monarch” from its Junior Dictionary and replaced them with words like “blog”, “broadband” and “celebrity”. Dozens of words related to the countryside have also been culled. The publisher claims the changes have been made to reflect the fact that Britain is a modern, multicultural, multifaith society. But academics and head teachers said that the

A response to an earlier post: Talk about arrogance, but apparently New York Times Columnist Timothy Egan wants to stop Joe the Plumber from being allowed to have his book published and calls the government oppressed blue collar man a “no good citizen” and a “no good plumber.” Arrogantly, Egan imagines that Joe somehow doesn’t deserve to have a book deal. Egan imagines himself more qualified than Joe to write

Worldwide Jihadi Industries has the cure! Rania al-Ambaki was rescued after officials jammed cell phone signals near where she was chained up. The young woman may have been drugged by Al-Qaeda before she was chained down. CBS News reported: Rania al Ambaki was handcuffed to a gate at an Iraq security checkpoint. She was a human bomb, CBS News correspondent Elizabeth Palmer reports. Suspicious officers immobilized her, jammed cell phone