Most people throughout history have believed in them. Most people alive today do the same. The tradition propagates down the timeline by force and conformity. Of course I am speaking of the greatest package of logical fallacies to ever be accepted by the overwhelming majority of people - religion.

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It’s been around a week since the unprecedented bailout plan was proposed to save Wall Street. The plan that was devised in desperation to avoid a repeat of the great depression is intended to provide quick relief to the failing mortgage market. As one might have expected, politics has been and will continue to stall the implementation of the big bailout - perhaps until it is too late.

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As you may have noticed, we haven’t been posting new content as frequently as we have in the past. This is due to an unforseen spike in the workload our writers have had in the past week. I just wanted to inform those concerned that we will resume our normal pace as soon as possible and that we have in the works quite a few topics we hope you will find enjoyable to read that we haven’t got around to materializing just yet. I suppose one might say that our time and energy reserves collapsed together with the stock market.

Glasses have for a long time been the only way to see better if your eyes were less than optimal. They provide better vision at the cost of money that your insurance likely does not want to spend on you anymore as just about everybody is visually impaired to done degree these days. So why settle for antiquity when there are more aesthetically pleasing alternatives out there these days? Glasses are BS and I am going to explain why.

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In a recent study it was found that many eighth grade students are complete idiots at math who are outdone by their eight year old peers.

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Last year Apple launched yet another overpriced product. This product has since sold millions of units and is extremely popular in the United States. Earlier this year the iPhone got a revision that improved on the existing feature set of the original model. I will explain why the new model, the iPhone 3G, is BS.

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Electronic Arts is well known in the videogame industry and its followers for doing many things wrong, unethical and at times just plain stupid. Their latest blockbuster game Spore hit store shelves last week as many people turned to alternative sources to acquire the game in record numbers. While this is expected for a release of this caliber, the reason why many people are not buying the game at retailers is a little different - DRM.

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Modern life involves interacting with a broad range of mobile, portable devices. Many of us carry cell phones, laptops and mp3 players around on a daily basis. Often these devices will run out of battery power before they make it back to the chargers - and that’s BS.

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Christmas came early for AIG today as the Federal Reserve announced it was going to provide an 85 billion dollar 2 year loan to keep the global investment firm afloat. Apparently it takes that much money to prevent an event worse shitstorm from occuring.

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What a crazy day - at 8 in the morning the first thing I see in the news is that Lehman Bros. had plummeted to $3.50 and that the Dow fell 384 points… before trading even began.

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