CNN gets the Duh! Award for the day.

In the article titled “Overpopulation could be people, planet problem“, part of their Planet in Peril series, CNN offers this as one of their article highlights:

Overpopulation will tax water supplies worldwide

Really? You just noticed?
Bah, go back to reporting on Madeline McCann and Phil Spector.

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Kill someone with a car, avoid jail

I’m tired of vehicular homicide somehow rating as “lesser” than both homicide or manslaughter. If you cause the death of another person, are they not dead? If the death is an accident, then manslaughter generally applies. If the death is not an accident, then it is a variety of homicide (or [...]

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Dramatic license, staged, or just circumstances?

Yes, we all know that the famous Iwo Jima flag raising wasn’t the first flag raised at the summit. Contrary to suggestion, however, it was a legitimate (not staged) photograph that deserved the Pulitzer it earned. (The original flag at the summit was too small to be seen by approaching US [...]

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Meterorite or Crater or Satellite or Mass Hysteria in Peru

This has got to be one of the more bizarre news stories of the month.   What is known:

There is a crater (15 meters wide and 5 meters deep, or so, depending who you read) in the ground in Carangas, Peru.
Locals report seeing something bright in the sky around the time the crater appeared.
The ground [...]

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Gorilla Defense Fund?

I think Zoo NE, on behalf of Little Joe, needs a defense fund.
In 2003, a lowland gorilla known as Little Joe escaped from the Franklin Park Zoo. He had previously escaped from the modern gorilla enclosure but was recaptured within zoo property without major incident and the enclosure reinforced. A few days later, [...]

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