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• 7 women reach South Pole after 562-mile trek

  Wed Dec 30, 2009
  • Ed-NavDoc, I checked out antarcticconnection.com and they have a wealth of information on the blizzards there - blizzard conditions 65% of the time at Byrd Station, blizzards lasting weeks with winds at 100mph - very cool website.

• Solar showdown in tortoises' home

  Fri Jan 1, 2010
  • When there is not enough electricity, we can do two things - make more or use less. Making more has a price. Using less has a different price. I like using less.

• Solar showdown in tortoises' home

  Fri Jan 1, 2010
  • I'm not a big old PETA wackadoodle but I'm coming down on the side of the tortoises here.

• Hole in the moon could shelter colonists

  Thu Dec 31, 2009
  • I wish Robert Heinlein had lived long enough to see this.

• The half-baked math behind the fake tan tax

  Thu Dec 31, 2009
  • You are correct and then some - this tax targets small businesses owned by women providing a service to women.

• Congress lets 50 tax breaks expire at end of '09

  Thu Dec 31, 2009
  • PLEASE do not get your tax info from this article. "If the AMT patch isn't extended, and you pay estimated taxes you will have to decide whether to pay extra or owe a penalty" isn't TRUE. If you pay in as much as you owed in the previous year, there is no penalty. Jeez.

• America wages new war in Vietnam — on AIDS

  Sun Nov 29, 2009
  • I don't agree that fighting the AIDS virus everywhere in the world is a bad idea, and 85 million is a drop in the bucket, but since so many of you are upset about our foreign aid, can anyone tell me why I can't google and find one easy webpage that tells me how much we give in foreign aid and to …

• Workers' long-term insurance tucked into bills

  Mon Dec 28, 2009
  • Why should I buy insurance, enriching an insurance company, when I can save the money and pay directly for the care I want? I encourage you to visit tcalc.com and look at the 'savings amount calculator' - it's a fun little calculator that will tell you how much you will end up with if you save each …

• NY court: Consider harsher sentence in terror case

  Wed Dec 23, 2009
  • We should stop putting people in jail because we are mad at them and start putting people in jail because we are afraid of them.

• Sean Goldman playful, sleepy on flight home

  Thu Dec 24, 2009
  • Thanks for posting this one, I think we can donate to help defray Mr. Goldman's legal costs. Let's all do that, as we can, so that he doesn't end up having to pimp the kid out to the media to pay for it, k?