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By Will Offensicht  |  Feb 11, 2008  |   
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                    What happens when the law forbids a company from firing an employee without a formal meeting, but a court has forbidden the employee from meeting with the company?
                 
            
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By Petrarch  |  Feb 11, 2008  |   
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                    Anyone who sends their children to a religious school may be permitted an 80% tax deduction of the tuition.
                 
            
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By Will Offensicht  |  Feb 11, 2008  |   
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                    When government employees stopped setting the beat, the Japanese lost the rhythm and their economy fell apart.
                 
            
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By Hobbes  |  Feb 8, 2008  |   
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                    The Archbishop of Canterbury believes not only that his religion is dying, but his country's legal and political structure are doomed as well.
                 
            
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By Will Offensicht  |  Feb 7, 2008  |   
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                    Air bag rules saved fewer than one tenth the lives they claimed they would save and killed people to boot.
                 
            
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By Petrarch  |  Feb 5, 2008  |   
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                    Americans complain about the lack of true leaders and of today's poll-driven politicians.  But if American is a democracy, isn't that exactly how it is supposed to work?
                 
            
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By Will Offensicht  |  Jan 31, 2008  |   
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                    Public education has gotten rid of the consequences of failure for both teachers and students, so of course very little education takes place.
                 
            
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By Hobbes  |  Jan 31, 2008  |   
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                    When Commodore Matthew Perry opened Japan to the west, he took American and British missionaries along.  In addition to translating, they also helped with education.
                 
            
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By Hobbes  |  Jan 30, 2008  |   
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                    This video just gave us the best news we've heard out of the Middle East in a long, long time -- Iraqis are beginning to laugh at their leaders.
                 
            
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By Will Offensicht  |  Jan 29, 2008  |   
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                    Crackpots are thick on the ground and we can't fund them all.  How do we decide which upcoming genius/crackpot to fund?  Einstein didn't have any peers; he would never have passed "peer review."