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Pollitis | The Trail | washingtonpost.com

A self-respecting citizen doesn’t want to wind up in an awkward conversation like this:

Friend: Did you see the new Marist Poll?

You: Uh … not yet.

Friend: Loser.

Scientists prove it really is a thin line between love and hate – The Independent
Scientists studying the physical nature of hate have found that some of the nervous circuits in the brain responsible for it are the same as those that are used during the feeling of romantic love…

What is the probability your vote will make a difference?

The Protestant Rome: Luther City Revisits the Reformation – SPIEGEL
Martin Luther sparked the Protestant Reformation in the German city of Wittenberg 500 years ago. But, today, only 10 percent of its population is Protestant. Church leaders have launched a major drive to change that…

Early photos of the Guide

The Lynden Tribune endorses Barack Obama!
The newspaper of a small, rural, evangelical, conservative community of farmers endorses Obama.

The necessaries of life occasion the great expense of the poor… . The luxuries and vanities of life occasion the principal expense of the rich, and a magnificent house embellishes and sets off to the best advantage all the other luxuries and vanities which they possess… . It is not very unreasonable that the rich should contribute to the public expense, not only in proportion to their revenue, but something more than in that proportion.
—Adam Smith

Red Sex, Blue Sex – The New Yorker
Religion is a good indicator of attitudes toward sex, but a poor one of sexual behavior, and that this gap is especially wide among teen-agers who identify themselves as evangelical…

Lives – Facebook in a Crowd – NYTimes.com

Seven hundred friends, and I was drinking alone.

[ht: Bethany]

The Atlantic Online | November 2008 | The Things He Carried | Jeffrey Goldberg
“If I were a terrorist, and I’m not, but if I were a terrorist—a frosty, tough-like-Chuck-Norris terrorist, say a C-title jihadist with Hezbollah or, more likely, a donkey-work operative with the Judean People’s Front—I would not do what I did in the bathroom of the Minneapolis–St. Paul International Airport, which was to place myself in front of a sink in open view of the male American flying public and ostentatiously rip up a sheaf of counterfeit boarding passes that had been created for me by a frenetic and acerbic security expert named Bruce Schnei er. He had made these boarding passes in his sophisticated underground forgery works, which consists of a Sony VAIO laptop and an HP LaserJet printer, in order to prove that the Transportation Security Administration, which is meant to protect American aviation from al-Qaeda, represents an egregious waste of tax dollars, dollars that could otherwise be used to catch terrorists before they arrive at the Minneapolis–St. Paul International Airport, by which time it is, generally speaking, too late.”