chevydog

chevy is a currently unemployed chemical engineer who has in the past worked in a variety of engineering and financial positions for major chemical companies. Because he is as old as the hills, he has seen much. He spends his spare time plotting to bring disrepute on the spinach industry.

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Is This the Dumbest Generation?
This story has mostly positive ratings. 107 votes / 3 sinks

Is This the Dumbest Generation?

News – Younger Americans stumped in knowledge tests in the visually driven info age.

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Rod Stewart Apologizes For 30 Years Of Crap Music
This story has mostly positive ratings. 172 votes / 3 sinks

Rod Stewart Apologizes For 30 Years Of Crap Music

Humor – Stewart acknowledged that he has dropped even the semblance of originality, recording only albums of songs by other artists, many of them dead.

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Mellow Monday - The Rolling Stones - Dear Doctor and Factory Girl
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Mellow Monday - The Rolling Stones - Dear Doctor and Factory Girl

Music – Back in a time long ago,there was a band of young men from England that was doing a folksy blues roots country type of music.They were looked down on because they didn't play pop songs like some of their peers.

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Uncle Jay Explains the News - July 7, 2008
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Uncle Jay Explains the News - July 7, 2008

Popular Videos – Hope you had a happy Independents Day! Wait a minute, isn't that spelled wrong? Nope, because Uncle Jay explains the most important Americans ever: the Independent Voters! Really, they're important, just ask them. You'll see that they even have a cute mascot.

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U.S. Ice Cubes Melting At Alarming Rate
This story has mostly positive ratings. 223 votes / 1 sink

U.S. Ice Cubes Melting At Alarming Rate

Humor – Of the 28.9 billion tons of ice cubes produced commercially in June, it is estimated that less than half remain.

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McCain Calls For Branding Of Democrats
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McCain Calls For Branding Of Democrats

Humor – Under McCain's proposal, voters who declare themselves as Democrat would be branded with a letter 'D' in order to tell them apart from "real Americans."

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This story has mostly positive ratings. 36 votes / 1 sink

Reduce speed limit to save gas?

Money – An influential Republican senator suggested Thursday that Congress might want to consider reimposing a national speed limit to save gasoline and possibly ease fuel prices.

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Study: Most Self-Abuse Goes Unreported
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Study: Most Self-Abuse Goes Unreported

Humor – THE ONION RADIO NEWS : With Doyle Redland reporting - According to a study by the University of Colorado Sociology Department, approximately 95% of self-abuse cases go unreported.

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This story has mostly positive ratings. 48 votes / 2 sinks

11 Problems with Public Education

Careers & Jobs – A brief list of some of the problems with our educational system, specifically in how it discriminates against racial minorities and disadvantaged groups.

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This story has mostly positive ratings. 121 votes / No sinks

Online Piracy : Public Service Announcement

Popular Videos – It Was Self Defense.

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This story has mostly positive ratings. 128 votes / 2 sinks

Greenpeace Releases Dolphins Into Forest

Humor – THE ONION RADIO NEWS With Doyle Redland reporting: In a move intended to rescue dolphins from accidental death at the hands of tuna fishermen, Greenpeace announced the release of over 40 dolphins into Mt. Rainier National Park.

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Grandpa's Wake
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Grandpa's Wake

Popular Videos – He would've wanted it this way.

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Conservation Group Condemns Waterboarding As Wasteful
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Conservation Group Condemns Waterboarding As Wasteful

Humor – WASHINGTON - Conservation group National Water Watch, criticized the government's use of waterboarding Monday, calling the practice of immobilizing a detainee and pouring water over his face to simulate drowning "a tragic waste of resources."

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High gas prices threaten to shut down rural towns
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High gas prices threaten to shut down rural towns

Money – This community may be an extreme example of how rising gas prices are hitting rural Americans particularly hard, but people in small towns from Maine to Alaska are in a similar bind as those here.

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It's 100 Degrees. Do You Know Where Your Sanity Is?
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It's 100 Degrees. Do You Know Where Your Sanity Is?

Humor – Funny, smart piece on a day in the life without AC, brutal temps, & some of the consequences and lessons learned. 1 tip: Probably not a good idea to go car shopping when experiencing the onset of heat stroke.

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