Michael B. Duff

"This will be an interesting exercise on the way this country is going. Yes they Stewart/Colbert are comedians but they are comedians who tell it like it really is. They are smart Oprah is smart and I wish them success because I believe this rally will be a study into the true mood of this country and whether or not the right wing nut bars will rise or be swept away by real people who can think for themselves."

Call them the anti-Pelosi Democrats who are openly opposing Pelosi for another term as speaker if their party can somehow maintain control of the House. Republicans are widely expected to make big gains in the Nov. 2 elections.

More than 300 high schools have been affected by strikes and blockades – about one in 15 across the country – as students have joined the pension protests in the past week.

"Is it wrong that out of all the fun and inciteful info these guys share during this video, I’m more interested in their escapades with Ian McKellen? He sounds like the best person to hang out with. He taught those boys how to live and have fun."

This video provides a nice live demonstration of Microsoft Security Essentials dealing with 10 common trojans, malware, and virus threats. Video is a bit old, of course, but if you don't have a lot of computer experience, it might help you to see what actually happens when you get an alert. And yes, MSE caught everything 10 out of 10.

Under a clean and uncluttered interface, Security Essentials wraps antivirus and antispyware engines, rootkit protection, and real-time detection courtesy of Microsoft SpyNet, the unfortunately named cloud-based service that compares file behavior across computers.

By any metric, Portugal’s drug-decriminalization scheme has been a resounding success. Drug usage in many categories has decreased in absolute terms, including for key demographic groups, like 15-to-19-year-olds. Where usage rates have increased, the increases have been modest — far less than in most other European Union nations, which continue to use a criminalization approach.

On the one hand, huge deficits and debts—the sum of past deficits—mean some countries can no longer borrow at reasonable interest rates. Last week, rates were about 10 percent on Greek 10-year government bonds and more than 6 percent on Irish and Portuguese bonds. Even these rates would be higher if these countries hadn't acted to cut long-term budget deficits. By contrast, rates are about 2.3 percent on 10-year German government bonds and 2.4 percent on 10-year U.S. Treasuries.

If state laws are upheld, then the "too big to fail" banks are insolvent and they will fail. Then the question of kleptocracy arises once again: will the banks be allowed to fail as per Classic Capitalism, that is, their owners and managers will have to absorb the losses of that bankruptcy/failure, or will the Central State use its powers to collect taxes and cover the private losses of the Bank/Financial Power Elites? Privatizing profits and socializing losses has been the entire game plan since the global house of cards collapsed in 2008.

MK: With the growing overlap between banks, defense contractors, foreign interests and the justice department; colluding openly now to dismantle the common wealth, WikiLeaks stands as the last, best hope of this generation.

The average 13- to 17-year-old sends and receives a whopping 3,339 text messages a month, and adults' use of text messaging is starting to climb — although to nowhere near the levels of American teens.

Hunter-gatherers , the human way of life until the agricultural revolution about 8,000 years ago, were responsive caregivers, who didn’t let a baby cry it out. Moms breast-fed, probably for about five or six years. Cave kids had hours of unstructured free play, with children of all ages. And the little Pebbles and Bamm-Bamms of that Paleolithic period probably had multiple caregivers who provided nurturing and love. Cavemoms and dads didn’t spank their kids. Rather, they were the first adopters of positive touch, constantly carrying, cuddling and holding their children.

Then, after recording the frequency and recipients of one’s social networking messages, the malware would send out spam advertising in a pattern that resembles natural traffic. Coming from a trusted friend in a routine quantity, these ads would be more likely to trick people than random spam, Altschuler said.

"The problem is we have no idea what WikiLeaks has or is going to release, so we're preparing for the worst," one senior Pentagon official told NBC News on Friday.

Yves Le Goff, a spokesman for the French Oil Industry Association, said there is currently no rupture in the fuel supply, but that did not stop consumers from lining up at gas stations across the country to stock up on fuel, just in case.

A German entrepreneur is bypassing a European Union ban on light bulbs of more than 60 watts by marketing his own brand as mini heaters.

WoW is announcing Cataclysm during a football game. Does this mean WoW is actually mainstream?