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DOJ Filing More Lawsuits Against Aggressive Antiabortion Protesters -- Hey, have a bit of good news for once!

Ohio Geological Survey in fiscal peril

State legislator seeks to eliminate Ohio's clean-energy requirement

Here’s some disquieting news courtesy of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention: The compliance rate for health professionals, including doctors and nurses, washing their hands in American hospitals is only about 40 percent — meaning that, about 60 percent of health professionals in hospitals don’t wash up before coming into contact with patients. -- If you don't see them do it, it's OK to ask them to!

Ancient sea jelly makes tree of life wobble

It Gets Better - Kenyon College's Queer Women's Collective -- My alma mater. It sure does get better! When I started at Kenyon in '91 there were a total of two out people on campus.

11 Kitchen Tools You Don't Really Need

TQ Nation EXCLUSIVE Interview: Buck Angel (since I was talking about him the other day)

Red State By Kevin Smith

(AP) -- Overnight polls following the most recent GOP primary election debate show Khal Drogo taking a clear lead for the first time in the race.

Pulaski is arrogant and annoying and pays for it by being dipped in a shit-ton of old-age makeup. Plus, O'Brien finally gets a name! It's "Unnatural Selection" on the TNG Rewatch.

An episode that is near and dear to my heart -- as I used one of its guest stars in half a dozen novels -- the TNG Rewatch reaches "A Matter of Honor," as the Enterprise gets a Benzite, the Pagh gets Riker, and both ships come down with an icky hull-eating bacteria. Riker survives violence, treachery, being hit on by Klingon women, and the food.

a day late -- happy birthday, Star Trek

The Great Pop vs. Soda Controversy -- I grew up in Michigan calling it pop, but my New Yorker best friend my freshman year of college mocked me so mercilessly I still call it soda to this day.

Research: Competitive Games Cause More Aggression Than Violent Games

Orson Scott Card's most recent assholery
More: Revisionist History (in comic form)

Teaching Beekeeping to Children Improves Behavior

Regretting Your Abortion Is Not Grounds For A Lawsuit

Big Cats and Laser Pointers

The million dollar space pen hoax

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Friends of the Cleveland Kennel offers this advice to people who lose their dogs in or near Cleveland

Northeast Ohio gets two more movies and a video game, courtesy of tax credit program

Cleveland RTA's adult fare jumpers could avoid criminal fines, under latest proposal

Bloggers claim Reps. Marcia Fudge, Marcy Kaptur and Dennis Kucinich are 'card carrying' Socialists: PolitiFact Ohio -- *snerk*

Drunk Mooses Wreaking Havoc in Sweden

Survivor (on reasons we minimize the importance of abusive behavior toward ourselves)

As a poster boy for the “White Man Explains the World” set more than once in my life, allow me to say the following: Yea, verily. It’s hard to get us to shut up; it’s harder to get us to listen, for values of “listen” other than “waiting for the other person to stop making word noises so I can keep making my very important point.”

What is it that feminists aren’t getting enough of, according to Andrea Tantaros? Dick. Lots and lots of dick.

M6: The Butterfly Cluster

SDSS J102915+172927: A Star That Should Not Exist

FactChecking the GOP Debate

Postal Workers: The Last Union