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NEWSFLASH: Men Love Sex

Tell me something I didn't know!  Men want sex until they’re almost dead. That’s what British researchers concluded after "discovering" that men are more interested in sex than women. Seems like this one could have been a pretty short study.  And now we have scientific evidence for the "creepy old man," the disparity between genders only increases over time. [Atlanta Journal Constitution]

Tags: informational studies and reports, sex

Safe, Sound, Secure

What Money?

Here comes a flashback - the State Department is failing to properly oversee nearly $2 billion in contracts to battle the drug trade, build infrastructure and train police in Afghanistan, according to a bluntly worded internal assessment.  De ja vu?  Didn't we read about this with another war?

The report by the department's inspector general questions whether the U.S. will be able to stabilize the country in time to meet President Obama's goal of withdrawing some troops by June 2011. [USA Today]

Tags: money, afghanistan, budget, contractors

Just Plain Cool

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Finger Food

Remeber that lady who pretended she found a finger in our Wendy's chili and sued?  She's spilling the beans, now (sort of a pun, right?)  The woman says she paid $100 for the ring finger and cooked it in a pot of her own chili to get it to the correct temperature and texture; Wendy’s estimates they lost over $21 million in business over the fraud. The 41-year-old woman is now out of jail and says part of her parole includes a lifetime ban from the fast food chain. [San Jose Mercury News]

Tags: wacky news

Political Junkie

Big Brother in the Dairy Section

How cool/creepy is this?  The CDC has a new way to track food-borne illnesses: your customer loyalty cards. Because the cards track all purchases by customers at the particular chains, the agency was able to trace a recent outbreak of salmonella by looking at the sales records. Some consumer advocates say they worry that the CDC’s successful detective work could make such cards mandatory in the check-out lane.  We say why wouldn't you want to get to the end of your scanning and then see all the savings tick off one after the other? [Star Tribune]

Tags: surveillance