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Frank, Barney •LaRouchian fool is not suffered gladly by, and then the next morning Fox News doofus Steve Doocy fails to note that the protester was making Obama-Hitler comparisons and complains about the "downright rude[ness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: This Preposterous Week! Paul Slansky's News Index | 8/21/2009 | See Source »

...Thomas, Scalia noted the odd fact that the Supreme Court was ordering the lower-court judge to hold a hearing that, according to Congress, the judge is not allowed to convene. "Without explanation and without any meaningful guidance," Scalia wrote, the court was sending the district judge "on a fool's errand." The evidence, he asserted, "has been reviewed and rejected at least three times," and even if the judge finds it compelling, where's the legal power for the judge to act? (See "Top 10 Crime Stories...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Davis Ruling Raises New Death-Penalty Questions | 8/18/2009 | See Source »

...pretty obvious: if you want something from someone, a good way to get it is to imitate them. But, as the Chartrand and Bargh study suggests, do it subtly. If you're discovered copying someone's every move, you might seem a little creepy - although you could probably still fool a monkey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Monkey See, Monkey Do: Why We Flatter Via Imitation | 8/17/2009 | See Source »

Next time, however, I'll try to block out the pain and run the numbers. It turns out I didn't have appendicitis. I had a less serious (albeit briefly unbearable) ailment: a kidney stone, about 3mm in diameter. But don't let that fool you. It was a $12,000 kidney stone. (So you think you're insured...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Case of the $12,000 Kidney Stone | 8/13/2009 | See Source »

...experts - mortgage lenders, Wall Street sharpers, the Federal Reserve - to run our system expertly. But then the experts did the same thing, imagining that they had laid off all their risks on other experts. Until finally the last expert down the line turned out to be just another greater fool, and the system crashed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Avenging Amateur | 8/10/2009 | See Source »

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