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...love, sex, dating and relationship advice," has created an instructional video called "Facebook Manners and You." Styled after one of those frighteningly cheery '50s educational films, the video's instructions for proper behavior on the "electric friendship generator" is funny in a hits-close-to-home way. (I mean, no it doesn't. No one has ever posted embarrassing photos of me on the Internet!) (See the 25 best blogs...
...addition to that, the average number of people applying for unemployment benefits is not improving, and on a rolling average, the figures are getting worse. It is one statistic where the idea of the progress of the problem slowing means nothing. Another person out of a job is a new burden on the government, another blow to the optimism of the general population, and another man or woman who is no longer a consumer and may not be able to make mortgage payments. The pace of that trend does not mean much until net new jobs are being created Third...
...nearly 28,000 Norwegian mothers and found that those moms who were more anxious, depressed and angry were more likely to feed their kids unhealthy diets full of chocolate, soda and pancakes. Patterns of childhood eating can be very hard to break when we're adults adults, which may mean that kids of depressed moms end up dying younger...
...Complicating matters is that even if such foiled plots were more than fantasies it's as hard to prove a negative after September 11 as it was before. Just because there were no attacks after 9/11 doesn't necessarily mean that the interrogations deserve the credit. And of course the intelligence community's failure to discover that Saddam Hussein lacked any weapons of mass destruction before the Bush Administration invaded Iraq in 2003 makes their purported knowledge about thwarting attacks suspect to many observers...
Just what such statements mean in practice may not be known for months. After the initial flurry of executive orders, Obama delegated several areas of Administration policy to task forces for further study, including groups that are examining military detention policy, the closing of Guantánamo and the possibility of creating a new standard for CIA interrogation methods...