Automatic Web Traffic Generator

Wisconsin Landlords Are DNA Testing Dog Poop to Catch Negligent Pet Owners

Many communities rely on the honor system to keep dog poop off shared lawns and sidewalks. But all it takes is one inconsiderate pet owner to ruin it for everyone. Thanks to DNA testing, some property ... read more

No leash for felines: Michigan laws unequal for cats, dogs

Ypsilanti has a similar ordinance, in that dogs and cats must have rabies vaccines if they are in public places. The two cities are the only municipalities in the county to require pet owners to vacci... read more

Kushman By The Bottle: Arsenic Levels Lawsuit

(In this lab’s test, 93 percent were under ... it could be negligence, even criminal negligence. And here is a link to the list of the wines: Wines Named In Lawsuit Over High Arsenic Levels (Note: The... read more

Antivaxers lobbying Rep. Jason Chaffetz to investigate the CDC fawn over parents who let their child with bacterial meningitis die of medical neglect

he was being treated for meningitis with maple syrup and fruits and berries — that’s not the case at all,” says the negligent father, in an infuriating video now plastered on YouTube. “We were treatin... read more

8 Dishes Made by Notorious Poisoners

Many communities rely on the honor system to keep dog poop off shared lawns and sidewalks. But all it takes is one inconsiderate pet owner to ruin it for everyone. Thanks to DNA testing, some property ... read more

McCain Spokesman's Retort: Obama Lives in "a Frickin' Mansion"

SEDONA, Ariz. -- A spokesman for Sen. John McCain vowed to retaliate against today's story about how many houses the GOP candidate owns with a renewed focus on Sen. Barack Obama's ties to a Chicago de... read more

Does Christianity Lead to a Better Society?

Nevertheless, we often hear that Christianity leads to a better society—or, perhaps more often ... But this is a claim that we can test. Researcher Gregory Paul used public records of social metrics s... read more

Cheers and Jeers: July 4, 1776

William "Dick" Franklin, illegitimate son of Benjamin and former Royal Governor of New Jersey, was little more than a lap dog for the King ... Yeah, well, the current landlord with the crown is a petu... read more

Fry On the Problem Of Evil, Part One

My favorite philosophical conundrum has been back in the news lately, thanks to a recent interview with British actor Stephen Fry: Asked by the interviewer what he would say to God were he to discover ... read more

We’re Not in Lake Wobegon Anymore

Something has gone seriously haywire with the Republican Party. Once, it was the party of pragmatic Main Street businessmen in steel-rimmed spectacles who decried profligacy and waste, were devoted to ... read more

Mystery of the Microbe Letters

A post at AmericaBlog the other day jogged my memory about something that's been bothering me for a while, but I never got around to writing about. In the weeks following 9-11, several major media gro... read more

Reckoning with the God Squad

We also know that the “violence-of-God” tradition remains embedded deep in the DNA of monotheistic faith. Inside that logic you cannot read part of the Bible allegorically and the rest of it literally ... read more