quote [ "Arguing that gayness is as genetically fixed as race might have bolstered our rhetoric a few years ago, but is it necessary to argue that way now? I understand that the genetic argument for homosexuality is a direct response to the tired 'You weren?t born that way' rhetoric of religious people. But in my opinion, we could strip that religious argument of much of its power if we responded like this: 'Maybe I wasn?t born this way. Now tell me why you think that matters.'" ]

quote [ Daily Signal: "Here?s another reason to love the oil and gas bonanza in America. It?s breaking the back of OPEC. [...] You can?t have a cartel if the world?s largest producer?America?isn?t a member. OPEC will never again be able to create the level of economic turmoil that the Arab members of OPECs engineered in the 1970s with their oil embargo."

NPR: "Some economists see possible trouble ahead. They worry that if energy prices were to keep sliding, the process could contribute to deflation ? a brutal cycle of falling prices last seen in this country during the Great Depression of the 1930s." ]

quote [ "The studies surrounding Alcoholics Anonymous are some of the most convoluted, hilariously screwed-up research I have ever seen. They go wrong in ways I didn?t even realize research could go wrong before." ]

quote [ "Boomerang will continue to air Tom and Jerry, Looney Tunes, The Powerpuff Girls, and Scooby-Doo, but will add newly-acquired contemporary series produced by studios around the world." ]

quote [ [Here's how it works!] "[The students are allowed] to exist in a sort of definition limbo: They?ve technically completed high school, but they?re not given diplomas yet, which grants them continuing eligibility for the state?s $6,500-per-student allowance?[...] to pay for community college tuition, books and lab fees [...]. Then once they finish the 13th grade, students get that diploma and they can enter college as sophomores." ]

quote [ "During one week, the most metabolically active male burned an average of 3,450 calories per day, while the least metabolically active female expended 1,475 calories per day. It was rare for a woman on crew to burn 2,000 calories in a day and common for male crew members to exceed 3,000." ]

quote [ "In a new report published in the journal Nature, scientists shared their discovery that the first animals to have sexual intercourse did so by boning side to side instead of missionary style. The fish creatures were so daunted by their 'cumbersome genitalia' that this was the only way they could procreate." ]

quote [ "[...] of course, that's what linguistic discrimination is really about. Maybe it's not always about class, but it's never really about language. It's about the kind of people who speak it. Predictably, the kinds of accents and languages which get dumped on the most, and get branded the "ugliest," always wind up being spoken by socially disadvantaged people." ]

quote [ "'I thought, This is all going to waste, and I just got straight down there and started getting pissed on,' he says. 'It was instant rapport. These guys were all into the leather and S&M scene and they were right up for it straight away. And the bar management didn?t mind. They thought it was great fun.'" ]

quote [ "Erythrism is a genetic condition that results in unusual reddish pigmentation of the animal?s fur." ]