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Who Would Jesus Hate? -- described as providing "anecdotal evidence of how religion is on the wrong side of every social issue." Fugetaboutit! -- hilarious site from a "48-year-old shrinking Italian comedian ." Take the tagline for instance: "I saw the face of Jesus in my lasagna ... briefly."
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ChomskyTorrents.org

If you're going to pirate movies online, why go for the crap Hollywood puts out when you have options like those listed at BitTorrent site, C homsky T orrents.org ? The site describes itself as a gathering place for torrents with progressive and radical content. As for now, it preserves a special place for the work of American dissident Noam Chomsky, as the domain name suggests. I didn't know Chomsky was a dissident -- but I suppose that's one way of describing him in the current American environment.
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Business Exegeses

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Here are a few business articles of interest that kept me distracted from the subway freaks the past week or so. Still Marching to Purcell's Drumbeat -- talk about corporate governance gone bad ... here's a case of how not to do it, unless you're Machiavellian. This is a tale of Morgan Stanley's CEO & Chairman Philip J. Purcell, who basically got his friends onto Morgan Stanley's board, then proceeded to run the show, with no critical questions being asked. Screw the shareholders! Color-Blind Drug Research Is Myopic -- the US FDA just approved the heart failure drug, BiDil, specifically for the use by blacks. There is clear evidence that, for whatever reason, blacks to seem respond to the drug, more so than people with different genetic histories. This is a move towards personalized medicine, however, the implications to race in medical research is uncertain -- after all, there is no such thing as race. Iran: Rafsanjani's Second Shot at Reform -- w...
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