that's right, Profkampf, instead of making the best of a bad situation she should be forced to bankrupt herself, loose her house and pass on her debt to her 4 children... because that's fair.

As an aside, I'm happily married, but I've always wondered what's so 'sacred' about it.

@su.wei
Sorry that your home town is dependent on a quickly diminishing resource... but that's the way things happen.

I live in a part of Colorado where coal mining kept a lot of small towns alive. When that stopped being so worthwhile a lot of those small towns died. Before that it was the gold rush. All of those towns had people employed to support the miners (doctors, lawyers, bartenders...).

But, things change. Certain resources become more and less valuable. Some resources get regulated. I won't be crying any tears over coal miners/oil drillers when we really begin to regulate CO2 emissions, just like I didn't get upset when some of the logging towns shut down as national forests were created around them.

Ha! I liked it but with weak initiative like that she should have gone first!

That dog looks delicious.

Josh. dang, I hoped I wouldn't take the bait, but I just have to respond.

You are fundamentally misunderstanding what the bailout money is for. It's not meant to solve long term problems, it's meant to keep us out of something as bad as or possibly worse than the great depression.

I'll try and make it simple for you: If these companies (banks in particular, but any companies that also have banks as investors such as AIG) do fail everyone will loose money.

Banks, right now, own too many bad assets: bad investments, and houses dropping in value. The failing assets have dropped so much in value that the seed money (capital) of many banks is essentially gone, and now the losses the banks are facing are cutting into the money they owe to you, I, and our employers in the form of savings and checking accounts.

So, say we gave the banks no money. Lets also assume that this economy is going to get worse and the banks have to sell their toxic assets at current market value. The money they have might not be enough to pay us back, Josh. The FDIC and Government would have to step in anyway to bail banks out then! But at that point the largest lenders in the world would fail, probably bringing most business to a halt and leaving huge amounts of the population out of work. The capitalist system would be in a lot of danger then...

The bailout is a band-aid, sure. But it's one we need. Once we fork all this money out (and I'm not happy about it either) then we can make sure none of these companies can get "too big to fail" again, and send every one of those clowns to prison.

breaking news! Paleontologists discover bones of unicorns!

so let's say we remove the social network pages. then there's going to be something else that's bad for us... Soon we're left with sitting silently at home practicing extending out attention spans.

There's always something that's at the top of the list of things that are bad for you. take the top off and something new flows right up there.

Wow a lot of posts.

Some of these claims are dubious, in that we simply don't know enough. The planet wide ecosystem and gravity levels are one of them. We only have a sample size of a few planets to judge from, and we can't detect earth size planets (yet) that are outside of our solar system. Also, if you poke around the anthropic principle you could deduce that life (as we know it) would probably do best on planets similar to earth. So every planet we would visit would be pretty comfortable.

But the mind control one is flat out wrong. it says no earth species preform mind control. Wrong. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1590/is_9_57/ai_70872766 parasites drive ants up blades of grass to their deaths because it is the best place for the parasite.

I have to agree with a lot of people here: since the upcoming queue was introduced I've considered taking neatorama off my reader on many occasions. There's simply too many posts, and so many of them aren't neat anymore.

Social networking and user generated content is nice and all - but there is definitely still a place for editors in this world! I read gizmodo instead of engadget because of the voice of the blog, and it -was- the same reason I would read neatorama over fark.

I also happen there's way too many posts here in a daily basis. Some of us have jobs, and can't afford to wade through 100 posts of muck to get a few nuggets of neatness.

But I don't think the whole problem is the queuebot itself. I think a LOT of the problem is from the contest. Sorry, neatorama editors, but I think this was very poorly managed. now people are REWARDED by throwing as much junk at this as they can, and copy/pasting pages to make it go as fast as possible.

So, I see a couple solutions: remove the queuebot. or make separate RSS feeds and home pages for each. I miss reading things posted by the great editors here!

I played a game of monopoly recently. and apart from some negotiation ability and deciding when you can afford to put houses up it's very much random. the roll of the dice determines who wins most of the time.

Cody, funny. you were the first one to mention his race here... as you said: "like it should matter anyway"

And you're wrong. he has not made any official acts as president yet, but his transition team has really done a great job getting the ball rolling on Guantanamo, the economy and the environment. You will start seeing the fruits of their labor in just a few days.

HAH. edvard, nice story. I became a liberal by growing up watching star trek: the next generation.

Damn you socialist secular future, damn you!

Bob, real classy. You fill a thread with "NAZI" over and over... I'm not sure what kind of reaction your expected. I didn't realize it was sarcasm when I saw it...

Adolf Hitler: lol. you're a laugh riot.

Soymilk's expensive... If only regular milk didn't taste like snot to me.

I'm going to go ahead and suggest the latest This American Life for a great story about a guy who makes list.