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• 'I have bad moods, very bad moods,' Russia's president reveals in rare live TV interview

  Fri Apr 27, 2012
  • Is this 2012 or 1812? "Bad moods" have always been prerequisite for Russian leadership, history suggests. Erasing political opponents from public mention recalls the more modern but equally infamous tradition of erasing the disfavored from official photographs.

• BlackBerry giving up on the consumer market

  Thu Mar 29, 2012
  • I am embarrassed to admit my Playbook is a joy and my BBerry 9700 is smooth as silk. Try multi-tasking on an Apple tablet. Try to match BBerry's keyboard. As for apps, I have more than I need or use. So what's wrong? The lag in producing these devices left BBerry with outdated offerings.

• Sandusky labeled 'likely pedophile' in 1998 report

  Sat Mar 24, 2012
  • Pastoral beauty, and PSU has it in spades, can hide awful things. When I was there as a PhD student, we all knew that few sororities or fraternities were open to minority youths: "They got their own", kids said. The school kept quiet.

• Police: Suspect in French killing spree was hit by 20 bullets

  Fri Mar 23, 2012
  • Mossad would have taken him alive; SEALs would have killed him with a single shot. The French dithered and then lost a chance to question him about Pakistan and other training sites. Now the French have a reason to investigate security.

• Canadians scrap Arizona training due to civil rights rebuke

  Mon Jan 30, 2012
  • Love this incredibly cold land, most of all when the federal police draw their line. The Mounties get their man -- and this rotten sheriff is one un-Canadian man.

• Afghan parents, son guilty in 'honor' killings

  Sun Jan 29, 2012
  • 1. Compare the 12 millions of innocent dead from German Nazism, 3 million from Japanese Shinto militarism, 20-30 million from Soviet secular Communism with those killed by Muslims in the last 100 years.

• Giffords to resign from Congress after attending the State of the Union this week

  Sun Jan 22, 2012
  • "Why is the guy who shot her still alive?" asks a reader. Because the governments Gabrielle served live under a rule of law, recognized by all and revered by our Founders. We have trials, defending lawyers, juries. It is slow. It works.

• Casey Anthony's parents worried as video surfaces

  Sat Jan 7, 2012
  • 1. She is a citizen and can't be deported because you think she killed her child. (I suspect she did, too, but that's all we share). 2. She has been, rightly or wrongly, judged "Not Guilty". The case is over. Get it?

• Nurse who saved hundreds of US soldiers in WWII finally honored

  Mon Dec 12, 2011
  • She should have been honored in 1945, but nurses rarely were, least of all foreign ones. Instead, we inflated brave but limited Patton to a giant and made Gen. McCauliffe's response to the surrender order a mysterious "Nuts". It was really "Balls".

• What? Could our universe be just one of many?

  Fri Aug 12, 2011
  • Many universes, ok. More like us, oops. Imagine: A number of Bachmans and Palins... eternally somewhere, talking. (Sharpton and Wiener might do as well here...) Political echolalia on a cosmic scale. Conrad was right to say it doubly: "The horror! The horror!"