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Here comes Brood X – the 17 year cicadas. They’re about to emerge from their underground incubation and smother in green, bulbous insectoid creepiness. I remember with dread their emergence 17 years ago  [more...]

“Hardware stuff.”—Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, when asked by reporters what he bought at a hardware store during a campaign stop in New Hampshire. Gosh! He’s just an ordinary guy like  [more...]