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What makes a man a man? Socially, that is a complicated question. Genetically, however, it is as simple as a single Y chromosome.

But guys, that chromosome is in trouble.

In a new study, researchers say there is a dramatic loss of genes from the human Y chromosome that eventually could lead to its complete [...]

Common sense tells you that if you want to sell something, you want as many venues to sell that thing as possible, so the question that logically follows is “why are Chrysler and GM closing dealerships if they need to turn a profit?”

The answer? Well… As could be predicted, it’s complicated…

[M]any analysts don’t [...]

My mom sent me this today…

I was really disappointed when I watched the pre-finale interviews with Leah D’Emilio and Andrea Rene this morning. I honestly thought the best two had won, and my only other choice that didn’t make the finals was Sarah Atwood whose hula dancing video suffered only from being a bit over everyone’s head.

Andrea Rene’s video [...]

Beth and I saw this photo on the Goethals Bridge going to my parents’ house this weekend… I can pick out at least one misuse of the apostrophe here… What do you think?

According to this, the top two are right but the bottom one definitely looks wrong to me.

From the NY Times:

There is, it turns out, a great deal more than yogurt in those costly white cups.

The ingredients list for Original Pinkberry has 23 items. Skim milk and nonfat yogurt are listed first, then three kinds of sugar: sucrose, fructose and dextrose. Fructose and maltodextrin, another ingredient, are both laboratory-produced ingredients extracted from [...]

Anyone have any idea why Chikezie’s jacket looked like it was a hotel sheet under ultraviolet light? Ewww…

Anyway, he’s gone. I don’t think he was bad, and had some moments, but overall, he’s not in the same league as David Cook and Michael Johns.

Litter Lover from vincenzof on Vimeo.

Pandora is a cat truly enamored with her litterbox. She loves playing around in it and spends an inordinate amount of time rooting around, but not actually “going.”

Any other cat owners have something similar with their bundles of feline joy?

This reminds me of the old joke headline: “World to end tomorrow; Women and Minorities Hardest Hit”

“We found an unusually high number of reports that the Clinton campaign was insisting that 11:30 was the deadline,” said general counsel Bob Bauer, adding that at least 300 complaints had come in.

“We are not calling [...]

I’m sure Daddy is really proud…

A 2005 gender discrimination claim against East Hardin Middle School has been settled out of court. Melissa Barner, mother of Bobby Thorn, agreed to a settlement that included a $3,000 cash payment and requires East Hardin’s staff to undergo nondiscrimination training.

The principal, teachers and Jo Edwards, the former cheerleading coach [...]

Link to the actual book.

This is just weird… Apparently, in Quebec and Ontario, you can now vote with a burqa on if you really really super secret swear without your fingers crossed that you are who you say you are.

Ottawa, Canada The Canadian Coalition for Democracies (CCD) regards as unconscionable Elections Canada’s reported new policy of allowing Muslim [...]

I almost want to try this to see if I can replicate the result…

My husband has been dealing with a particularly nasty summer cold and it’s making it difficult for him to fall asleep. Shortly after midnight one evening, he asked me to run to the store and pick him up some medicine. I agreed [...]

A couple weeks ago my family came to New York, where I live, from my hometown near Salt Lake City. Before leaving, my mother had purchased a small tube of lotion and put it in her purse. When she got to the security checkpoint at the airport, she realized she still had the lotion. She [...]

squabbling couple finally realizing they can’t live without eachother — or a parasite fusing with its host — Photobucket has concluded terms of a sale to Myspace, News Corporation’s social network. The photo sharing service, which had a quarrelsome but symbiotic relationship with Myspace, may announce the deal as early as this morning. After final [...]

This is gucking fross… Check out what happened when Simon went to K-Mart to get him some bacon…

Yep… That little bit of red is all the meat on that bacon…

Now if you’ll excuse me, I’ll happily head to the toilet and leave my breakfast behind.

via Consumerist where you can find even more pictures.

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Cory calls this “hilarious.”

Am I missing something?

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When the city’s Education Department said it would not let students from the Beacon School on the Upper West Side take a spring break trip to Cuba this year, the school turned to a powerful friend for help: Lt. Gov. David A. Paterson, whose stepdaughter went on the trip as a Beacon student in 2005. [...]

A retired New York couple who hailed a taxi for their 2,500-mile move to northern Arizona arrived with their two cats at their destination on Monday.
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Neither Betty nor Bob Matas drive and they wanted to spare their cats, Pretty Face and Cleopatra, a trip on an airplane to their retirement home about 90 miles north [...]

You don’t think traffic is chaotic enough? Well, AutoWeek magazine reports that a Texas company called SameLane has developed software that would enable drivers to make connections with strangers on roadways via cellphones.

Here’s how it would work: Motorists would register their license plate and phone numbers with the company’s website and receive bumper stickers letting [...]