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He’s being incredibly charming on The Daily Show right now. Must… resist…

. . . this should succeed:
High beer prices are on tap, and global warming could be to blame.
The environmental crisis has hit suds-lovers where it hurts most — at the bar and in the wallet — as prices of grains and hops soar, activists said yesterday.
“When we’re trying to deal with young people, [...]

And it’s helpful to remember that, you know, our entire freakin’ economy is based on trucking:
Ricardo Caraballo was having a familiar American experience at the filling station the other day, groaning as the pump clicked up, up, up. By the time he finished it read $505, and his tank was only half full.
A few years [...]

The U.S. Air Force has adopted the phrase “Above All” as its new slogan.
My evidence is strictly circumstantial, but I regard the Air Force slogan’s similarity to the results of a Youtube search for the phrase as…probably more than coincidental. Really, how much less subtle could this be?

To paraphrase Mitt Romney, who let [...]

Harrison Ford, call your office:
Boeing’s new 787 Dreamliner passenger jet may have a serious security vulnerability in its onboard computer networks that could allow passengers to access the plane’s control systems, according to the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration.
The computer network in the Dreamliner’s passenger compartment, designed to give passengers in-flight internet access, is connected [...]

The threat is real. The threat is here:
The metallic object - bigger than a golf ball and as heavy as a soup can - that crashed through a Freehold Township, N.J., home’s roof on Jan. 2 was not a meteorite after all, geologists said yesterday.
Instead, the scientists said, it was a stainless-steel alloy and [...]

Thank god high-level discussion among the highest reaches of government has finally caught up with plot points on this season of 24:
A previously undisclosed meeting last year of President Bush’s most senior national security advisers was the highest level discussion about how to rewrite the cold war rules. The existing approach to deterrence dates from [...]

Another Contrarian prediction seems to be coming true.
Watch your head.
PS: no word yet on whether the passengers on the plane planned to crash land on a remote Pacific island only to be terrorized by smoke monsters and crazy people.

It looks like the Pacific Northwest’s going to be spared the brunt of the recent mortgage crisis. Cleveland, on the other hand, not so much:
Here in Ohio, there are more than 200 vacant houses in Euclid, a suburb of Cleveland north of here. In the last two years more than 600 houses in Euclid [...]

In case 24 writers want to raise the bar, here’s something that should really freak you out:
For decades, space experts have worried that a speeding bit of orbital debris might one day smash a large spacecraft into hundreds of pieces and start a chain reaction, a slow cascade of collisions that would expand for centuries, [...]