DNA or bust

Hoping to have your DNA tested to see if you’re prone for disease, receding hairlines, or super human mutant powers? If you live in California you may be out of luck.
In May, state regulators began cracking down on direct-to consumer-genetic…

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Dick Cheney ate the EPA’s homework

After Barbara Boxer asked why 6 pages of an enviornmental study were cut by VP Cheney’s office, a senior advisor on the project said it was due to the White House’s fear it “might make it harder to avoid regulating greenhouse…

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Waxman: No more Roves

“Why should we be using taxpayer dollars to have a person solely in charge of politics in the White House?” Henry Waxman asked hypothetically in an interview regarding legislation he’s trying to pass to prevent another Karl Rove-like adviser….

How do you get a gig as a script reader?

Poor Bookhouse. Dude just moved to Los Angeles to pursue a career in screenwriting. Looking for advice on how to land a job doing script coverage, he asked the readers of AskMetafilter. Their advice? In a nutshell: “don’t do…

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Fantastic Sams and Aunt Olga

Before I’d even sat down, my stylist asked me for my number. I was taken aback, not because she wasn’t my type or anything - a motherly Russian lady with hairy arms - butin my 30 plus years of having my hair cut, I’d never been…

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For gay Wisconsin couples, a CA marriage could be a criminal act

Wisconsin law criminalizes gay marriage, but is okay with marrying your first cousin.
“America’s Dairyland” (aka Wisconsin) is so opposed to gay marriage that in 2006 they changed their constitution to specify marriage could only…

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Lesser Baldwin brother threatens to leave U.S…. if Obama wins.

Traditionally, it’s liberal Hollywood types threatening to move to another country if Republican is voted President, but this time a conservative actor is willing to abandon the United States if a Democrat wins. Stephen Baldwin told Fox News…

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Kittens entitled due process, sez Cat Fanciers’ Association

The Cat Fanciers Association is arguing that a “revised” California assembly bill could result in unwanted sterilization of pets who have accidentally slipped outside of homes, or escaped during earthquakes, fires, or other…

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Another boring mention about the cell phone ban… blah, blah, blah.

I’m sure you’ve heard by now that effective today, California drivers can no longer hold their cell phones while driving. But did you know:

Not sure if this is legal.
pic by dfb, used under Creative Commons.

that while the LAPD has……

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