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Spelling Bees are for Wussies

Spelling Bees are for Wussies
Maybe you caught CNN's ongoing fixation with spelling bees this past week. Well, as this article kindly points out, spelling bees are for wussie languages. Real languages have much harder competitions.

US Military Hinders US Senate
I really don't understand that country anymore. The US Senate has legal authority to subpoena any US citizen or resident to speak in front of them. But the US Military won't allow anyone below the rank of colonel to testify about how things are in Iraq.

And they're good at Hide and Seek!
So elephants never forget... well, they hide real good too. A group of over a hundred elephants have been hiding in a Sudanese swamp for the past 20 years.

FUN FINAL NOTE

Sometimes the vegetarians win
This long, grainy video shows something you won't see every day: lions at a watering hole take down a buffalo calf but can't kill it, a crocodile tries to steal it, then the herd comes back and rescues it.

— SGP

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Apparently we didn't know soon enough

Banning Boyhood

The Force is strong in your headband

Hacking Ikea furniture

Love, American Style

Do you Miss America?

Everyone Point at New Zealand and Laugh

Gov't gone wild

Bend it like What's-his-face

Rubber ducky, you're the one!

Just say NO

We're Number 3!

Big Money versus a Stone Age Tribe

Winnie-the-Who?

Spelling Bees are for Wussies

Up in Smoke

The Culture of Smiling

The First Rule of Geek Club...

Don't Worry, Be Happy!

McCain Bombs the Beach Boys

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