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• 'Dismal' prospects: 1 in 2 Americans are now poor or low income

  Thu Dec 15, 2011
  • This seems like a sort of silly article. For a week, we've been reading the "We are the Median" (defined as roughly 50K/year. Now we get an article saying that, if we define lower incomes as just under median (45-47K/year), roughly half the nation is lower income.

• Most would blow the whistle if they could get a payout

  Mon Dec 12, 2011
  • So we've established what you are, now we just need to agree on a price. How many would make up stuff, for enough money?

• Secret Santa hands out $20,000 in poorest US city

  Wed Nov 30, 2011
  • It has been happening for years in cities across the USA. Kansas City's "original" Secret Santa died a few years ago, but others picked up his work. (philanthropist)

• Mom: Bullying drove my 10-year-old girl to suicide

  Fri Nov 18, 2011
  • So, mortified, you can't read? Dee is saying she cares much more for the ones being picked on than the bullies, and says that the bullied children need help. Do you disagree?

• Dissension among the ranks at Occupy Wall Street

  Mon Nov 14, 2011
  • “I heard that some of the 99 percent are the 1 percent of the 99 percent,” he added, and to which some people started applauding. “We don’t need that.

• Reese's python purse has PETA hissing

  Wed Nov 2, 2011
  • Who cares what PETA says about anything, other than PETA members?

• Couple married 72 years die holding hands

  Wed Oct 19, 2011
  • Great, they died together after a long marriage, but they may very well have cut short another person's happy marriage, and left someone with impairments.

• Hair today, gone tomorrow? It's National No Beard Day

  Tue Oct 18, 2011
  • The option of Smooth or Scruffy is incorrect. A lot of very trimmed, not remotely scruffy beards exist. My husband has had a beard in one form or another for the last 34 years, and has never been considered "scruffy" by anyone!

• Homeowner taps 'Occupy' protest  to avoid foreclosure

  Mon Oct 17, 2011
  • Not buying that one payment was 2 weeks late. More likely the late payment/arranged payment of 2 or 3 months of late payments was 2 weeks late.

• ‘Vancouver kissing couple’ reveal secret of viral photo

  Mon Jun 20, 2011
  •  Not buying it, don't care, think it is a stupid story--both before and after their names were discovered.  Why were they the only people "knocked down by police". DIdn't bother to watch the video, don't care.