things that can and never should

The more he uttered “disappointment,” the more fraught it sounded, until it was delivered not just with his signature shoulder-hunching emphasis, but with a kind of protestation that seemed to carry the full weight of his historic fall from near 90% approval ratings after 9/11 to his current tally of less than 30%, a record low.

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Police departments across the state of Massachusetts reportedly will not ticket people in possession of marijuana, even if they are caught smoking it. Officials say a new law that decriminalizes having small amounts of “pot” makes it impossible to enforce penalties because it is poorly written. “We’re just basically not enforcing it right now,”

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A California father says he discovered his 13-year-old daughter sent 484 text messages per day last month — one message every 2 minutes of every waking hour.

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Marijuana smokers in Federal Heights — town motto: Reaching Great Heights — will face lighter penalties when they reach a little higher, The Denver Post reports Monday. The town’s City Council last week cut the maximum fine for pot smokers caught with an ounce or less of the herb from $1,000 to $500 and did away with the possibility of jail time.

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Police said they only learned of the deal after the 36-year-old man went to them to get his daughter back because payment wasn’t made as promised.

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If you have a website or blog you’re probably interested in who’s visiting your site and what they’re doing while they’re there. Way back in 2007 we did a post on web analytics but a lot has changed since then. Most analytics packages are now focusing on real-time tracking of visitor data. Here are 50+ apps to help monitor your traffic.

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With all the remorse and other problems procrastination causes, researchers set out to study why the heck people do it. (btw, I’ve been meaning to write-up a longer Digg description on this study, but haven’t gotten around to it yet.)

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Israel on Monday banned Arab political parties from running in next month’s parliamentary elections, drawing accusations of racism by an Arab lawmaker who said he would challenge the decision in the country’s Supreme Court.

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Although Israel is sometimes described as an American client state, which receives huge financial subsidy from Washington, she is unique as a client state: she can do exactly as she likes in the knowledge that she will never be seriously restrained by her sponsor.

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A comprehensive survey of the drinking water for more than 28 million Americans has detected the widespread but low-level presence of pharmaceuticals and hormonally active chemicals.

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