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Three years of student aid and a 0.0 GPA to show for it - MLive
Political fall-guy for Governor Granholm's court packing scheme baffled by it all - Det Freep
Maybe that's why he didn't get retained by the voters perhaps? Too bad. He doesn't seem that bad.
The 1970's Oakland County Child Killer story makes news again - Det News
Amid rumors of a possible cover-up.
The real slayer of empires: Public debt - Newsweek
The 10 best low-carb fruits - Daily Apple (Mark Sisson)
Assange's rape allegations and the integrity of the left - The Nation (Katha Pollitt)
The right-wing's war on net neutrality -Daily Kos (Joan McCarter) via Slashdot
London UK police claim CCTVs solve "six crimes a day" - BBC
I'd like to know what these "six crimes a day" are before I take that claim too seriously. And pissing on the sidewalk, jaywalking, skateboarding offenses and similar shit shouldn't count, either.
"The vindictive grand jury investigation of pain-relief advocate Siobhan Reynolds" - Slate (Radly Balko)
Winterizing your bike - Wired

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Life without bread - Weston Price Foundation (book review)
Is a college degree worth the money? - LA Times
"Don't train yourself or your children [in work] that a computer can do or a smart kid in China or India can do. Because that's ferocious competition."
People are creeped out by targeted web ads - Physorg.com/ ( via Slashdot.org/)
A PSA-type ad from the NSA about what fun it is to be polygraphed - NSA.gov (video)
A critique of optimism — the religious dogma that states there will be an ultimate triumph of good over evil — in the far left - The Anarchist Library