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• Study: Average gamer is 35, fat and bummed

  Tue Aug 18, 2009
  • I don't play video games, so I'm unfamiliar with them.  Is there actually a video game for "Hide and Seek" and "Freeze Tag"?  If so, why would a child play these video games and not just go play the real thing with other children? Just curious.

• Fla. doctor ousted after denouncing doughnuts

  Thu Aug 13, 2009
  • Actually, it IS his job to tell people what to eat.  How he communicates the information is certainly to be debated (if it isn't communicated effectively in a way people will listen, then he might as well not say anything).  Putting specific people and business entities in a negative light …

• The roots of rage at a town hall meeting

  Tue Aug 11, 2009
  • Once again, I'm reading here in a forum and in the associated article points of view that are virtually all emotion and devoid of any logic.

• Health reform idea: Put down the doughnut

  Mon Aug 10, 2009
  • "There’s no doubt that the bulk of the nation’s health care costs are self-inflicted." No doubt there's a lot of "bulk", period.  I find the entire healthcare cost debate incredibly funny. Anti-depressants for everyone, since, as a nation, we appear to be attempting suicide.

• Twitter outage clamps tweets, cause 'unknown'

  Thu Aug 6, 2009
  • In exactly what way am I supposed to care about this? Perhaps, if hackers are busy breaking into Twitter and Facebook, they'll leave useful sites and services alone? Okay, let's pretend like we care, and maybe they won't catch on. Shhhh.

• ConsumerMan: Rental car insurance

  Wed Aug 5, 2009
  • Another option - if the rental is reserved through Expedia, Orbitz, or similar, they often offer a version of CDW at the time the reservation is made.  It usually has to be paid up front, even if the car rental is later cancelled, and there is usually a deductible (typically …

• Texting Teen Unaware As She Falls into Sewer

  Fri Jul 10, 2009
  • If she's an example of the new generation of manufacturers, more manhole covers will get made overseas because we won't have anyone competent enough to make them here!

• Physics discussion ends in skateboard attack

  Thu Jun 25, 2009
  • But isn't it interesting that virtually all homeless people are "normal" enough to function at least within an urban, inhabited environment (if not within their own home), managing to find food, clothing, shelter, however minimal, even for years at a time.

• Naked man steals french fries

  Thu Jun 25, 2009
  • "Do you want extra ketchup with that order?"

• Have you had to move back in with your parents? Or parents, have you welcomed back your grown children? Share your situations and stories.

  Fri Jun 19, 2009
  • Passion probably won't be found unless it is sought. My step children claim they don't know what to do with their lives, yet none of them is making an attempt to "define" their passion.