Pew: 20% of American adults don't use Internet
(SCPR) Online culture is thriving. But according to a new report by Pew Research Center's Internet and American Life Project, one in five Americans never goes online. The report says those who avoid or don’t have access to the Internet mainly include senior citizens and people in households earning less than $30,000 per year. Why are these citizens rejecting Internet use? The main reason, for half of those interviewed by Pew, is they don’t think the web is relevant to them... MorePOLL: How much time do you spend on the Internet every day?
The media's role in the fate of the world: Kill the messenger
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Richest man in US has [penis] cancer
[Is the prostate gland more related to the penis or anus? Just ask Warren Buffett, a man so rich he can't afford to stay well, because he should know. He] said in a letter to shareholders on Tuesday that he has been diagnosed with stage 1 prostate cancer. The 81-year-old [multi-] billionaire investor and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway (BRK-A) said the situation wasn't life threatening, but he would let shareholders know if it deteriorated. [He is caricatured here holding his sack.]- The "Buffett Rule" - higher taxes for billionaires
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Buffett said "the good news" is that doctors have indicated his condition isn't "remotely life threatening or even debilitating in any meaningful way." [That is to say, he has a lot of feistiness in him yet and lots of time to stick it to the stock market. R.I.P. fellow multi-billionaire Steve Jobs, 56, hater of alternative cancer remedies that do not involve deadly surgery, chemo, and drugs.] More
The paratroopers had their assignment: Check out reports that Afghan police had recovered the mangled remains of an insurgent suicide bomber. Try to get iris scans and fingerprints for identification. The 82nd Airborne Division soldiers arrived at the police station in Afghanistan's Zabol province in February 2010. They inspected the body parts. [Then they decided to barbarically desecrate and mock the dead by posing with body parts, which the mainstream media thought was a good thread to follow up for the sake of war and more war, endless acrimony and fear of jihad, false flag wars followed by propaganda that keeps them in place and our military mentality expanding.] More- Violent US mission in Afghanistan fraught with impunity
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- Taiwanese-style night market takes over Pasadena
- Progressive Catholics in right wing Church
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