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Rationing! It's Not Just For Your Grandparents Anymore
Call it the Big-Box Tipping Point, but you know the global food crunch has solidified from sad headline to international reality when your local Costco gets walloped.
Shoppers at the Costco in Mountain View, CA felt the first tremors of the clamp down this week — no rice! The usually packed shelves held but a few jumbo bags of rice and shoppers faced something the US hasn't really seen since WWII: rationing.
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Ask a Divorced Woman: Can I Save My Marriage?
Conventional Wisdom is a different kind of advice column. Your questions will be answered by people from all walks of life rather than by advice experts. If you have a question you'd like answered on Conventional Wisdom, you can submit it here.
Tina Fey on Vice and Zen
I've rationalized that living in a fourth-floor walk-up negates a gym membership, chocolate cake for dinner is really just lunch's dessert, and that dying is inevitable when I bum a late-night cigarette. Fortunately, I'm not alone. Tina Fey told Harper's Bazaar she'd like to work out but doesn't have time, and, besides, it's not like it's going to make her immortal.
Stranger Than Fiction: Man Steals Another's Pants to Get in Pub
It must've been some pub this guy in Sweden wanted to get into! A 26-year old from Helsingborg in Southern Sweden showed up to a pub (clearly, a fancy pants pub!) wearing sweatpants. He was denied admission, and instead of doing what a sane, rational person would do, you know — go home and change clothes — he basically mugged another guy for his jeans.
Say What? Media Leader Says Women Are Better Managers
"In my experience, female bosses tend to be better managers, better advisers, mentors, rational thinkers. Men love to hear themselves talk. I’m so generalizing .
Richard Dawkins Funds Atheist Camp For Kids
Famous atheist Richard Dawkins has put his money behind a Summer camp for kids — you can think of it as the anti-Jesus Camp.
At atheist Camp Quest, kids aged 8-17 learn about rational skepticism, moral philosophy, ethics, and evolution — while enjoying traditional camp activities. According to those involved, the project is not about changing what kids think, but about changing the way they think.
Man Lives on Plane to Overcome His Fear of Flying
The tragic news about the vanished Air France flight makes anybody's fear of flying seem rational, but one man recently determined that it was time to get over his. So what did Mark Malkoff do to overcome his debilitating fear of air travel? He decided to spend one month living on a plane, staying onboard while the jet is on the ground or in the air.
Does This Look Like Jesus to You?
Before you accuse me of being sacrilegious, know this: the people who keep seeing Jesus in snack foods are the ones who consider him sacred!
Dan and Sara Bell stopped by a gas station to fill up the tank and pick up a bag of Cheetos, when lo and behold, Sara paused before popping what they now call Cheesus into her mouth. "Oh my gosh," she recalls saying.
Are You Neat or Messy?
I feel for Lindsay Lohan. A tripped alarm sent the popo over to her LA home and it was so messy they thought her apartment had been "ransacked." Turns out, this is what it always looks like, and now the whole world knows!
Does This Man Look Like a Murderer?
Clean cut blond man. Medical student with a fiancée.
In almost every news story that you read about alleged Craigslist killer, Philip Markoff, who is accused of murdering a masseuse whose ad he answered, there is always some comment about the incongruity between his looks and/or educational background and the murder of 26-year-old Julissa Brisman that he's accused of.
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