Chasing Cars

Snow Patrol - featuring scenes from "Grey's Anatomy".

The new Aurochs

Interesting ...

Steven Morris of The Guardian reports on a herd cows in Devon that were bred by a pair of brothers who wanted to recreate the aurochs, "an extinct European wild ox" that "features as an important beast in Teutonic mythology."

Derek Gow believes Heck cattle - which, he says, "look prehistoric" - could one day have an important conservation role, taking the place of aurochs in the environment. "They would be ideal for a reintroduction program in Britain because they don't need human attention."

He added: "They are an important part of the ecosystem because each cow produces its own weight in dung a year. That is excellent for the whole food chain, from dung beetles upwards."

Nazi-bred super cows roam farm in Devon

Funny Pages Go Green For Second Annual Earth Day Event

From Treehugger:

Photo credit: Sherman's Lagoon/King Features Syndicate

Does Mother Earth have a sense of humor? Thirty-seven of King Features' cartoonists are tickling the planet's funny bone by dedicating their strips to the environment on Earth Day.

Participating strips span the gamut, from America's most popular dailies, such as Blondie, Hagar the Horrible, Mutts, and Dennis the Menace, to up-and-comers like Arctic Circle, Pajama Diaries, Ollie and Quentin, and Sherman's Lagoon. Click below the fold for some of our favorites.

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Teen pirate was bold ringleader, say prosecutors

Abdiwali Abdiqadir Muse's actions onboard the Maersk Alabama belied his age and skinny, 5-foot-2 frame, say authorities.

Teen pirate was bold ringleader, say prosecutors

Also:

• How one region got rid of pirates
• Somali PM's advice

Worst foreclosure rates concentrated in 4 states

The 26 cities with the highest foreclosure rate in the nation are all located in four hard-hit states, according to a new report.

Worst foreclosure rates concentrated in 4 states

Also:

• Toughest cities to get by
• Global economy predicted to shrink

Futuristic new car a docking station on wheels

On Earth Day, Chrysler launches the electric Peapod with a dock for an iPod or iPhone.

Docking station on wheels

Also:

• 8 technologies that could replace gas
• How going green can save you cash

Minnesota surgeon needs two tries to remove appendix

From the "I think I'd find another surgeon" Department:

A state investigative report said a surgeon performed an appendectomy on the same patient twice after he mistakenly removed a piece of fatty tissue instead the first time.

Full Story

Cats starve after pet owner 'lost track of time'

They were cats ... but still ...

A Florida special education teacher is facing felony animal cruelty charges for starving her cats to death because she "lost track of time."

Full Story

The Unicorn and the Narwhal

The mortal enemies - the Unicorn and the Narwhal.

Arkansas. man digging in garden unearths cannonball

Officials say a Fort Smith man digging in his garden unearthed a Civil War-era cannonball that's possibly still explosive.

Full Story

Pregnant woman tries to rob bank, gets cellphone call

Police are looking for a pregnant woman they say tried to rob a North Carolina bank at gunpoint but left empty-handed after answering her cell phone.

Full Story

And I Quote

Americans learn only from catastrophe and not from experience.

~ President Theodore Roosevelt

Mummified cat found in walls of cottage

A 400-year-old mummified cat has been found in the walls of a house that was being renovated.

Full Story

Judge orders defendant's mouth taped shut

An eastern Idaho judge who lost patience with the disruptive behavior of a defendant ordered court officials to tape the man's mouth shut with duct tape during a court hearing.

Full Story

Clean-cut 'Craigslist Killer' suspect Philip Markoff gave off 'creepy vibe

"Smart." "Pompous." Clean-cut." "Creepy."

A high-achieving dentist's son from upstate New York, Philip Markoff is described in various ways, but everyone, even those who didn't like him, is shocked at the charges against him.

"He was smart. He carried himself well," said neighbor Michael Bernard.

"He seemed like the type that would have it all. It doesn't make sense."

Markoff grew up the son of a Syracuse dentist, with an older brother, Jon.

He graduated in 2004 from Vernon-Verona-Sherrill High School, where he was on the bowling and golf teams, and earned a biology degree from SUNY Albany four years later.

In high school, he was an honors student who hung out with the brains and also played a lot of poker, even mentioning his gaming skills on his yearbook page.

"He had a decent amount of friends, although I would say a great deal would have characterized him as weird," said former high school classmate Nate Heysler.

English teacher Sonja Hluska remembered him as a smart kid with a good sense of humor.

"He was one of my most polite students. He was kind.

"Just a nice, clean-cut boy wanting to succeed. That type that you'd like to mother," she said. "I just still can't believe it."

At college, he was a member of the College Republicans and was fairly unremarkable except for the occasional offensive comment, said ex-classmate Joe Coe.

"He was someone that had issues with people of color, had issues with women," Coe told CBS.

"He gave off a creepy vibe," said another SUNY classmate.

Markoff was a sophomore at SUNY Albany when he met his fiancée, then-senior Megan McAllister, when both volunteered in a hospital emergency room.

"We spent about two months pushing stretchers down hallways and bringing blood and urine samples to pathology together before our first date," she wrote on a Web site for the wedding they planned in Long Branch, N.J.

New swine flu strain worries health officials

Two California children have recovered from a never-before-seen flu strain, but their illness worries authorities.

New swine flu strain

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• Break dancing risky
• H1N1 flu strain

Earth-sized planet found outside solar system

Scientists call the discovery of a new planet "extraordinary" and say its neighbor could have a "large and deep" ocean.

Earth-sized planet found outside solar system

Also:

• Moon to hide Venus Wednesday
• Hubble captures 'cosmic fountain'

Unhealthy food hijacks the brain

Millions of Americans are under the spell of a willpower-sapping drive to eat high-fat, high-sugar foods, a new book suggests.

How unhealthy food hijacks the brain

Also:

• Artificial sweetners not so sweet?
• Bad and better fast food choices

Jobs that pay $40 an hour

These five hot careers boast lucrative salaries and stability, even in today's economy.

$40 an hour

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• Side jobs to boost pay
• Create more luck to your career

Liars and Fools

Liars and Fools
The Faux News edition:

Faux's Kilmeade says he "feels better" knowing that Khalid Sheik Mohammad was "waterboarded 183 times"
The he'll really 'feel better' buried up to his eyeballs and his eyelids covered with honey in an ant hill.

Faux's Cavuto has one estimate of "tea bag" crowd off camera, then triples his guess when on the air
Lies is all he knows so I am not surprised.

Faux anchor rants about fascism during tea party coverage
Fascts showing their stripes by calling everyone else fascists , again.

Faux News' Bolling tweets "Obama and Chavez sittin in a tree...K I S S I ...."
You always knew Faux News was juvenile ... well.

Faux's Brick on Perry's call for secession: "His words ring true"
Now there is a vote of confidence if I ever heard one!

A few from Handjob:

Faux's Handjob uses DHS warning about growing right-wing extremism to foment more hatred against Obama
Of course, and who thought he wouldn't?

Faux's Handjob says he has "one serious question": "Is this now a battle between capitalism and socialism?"
That's a bold-faced lie - he never has a serious question.

Faux's Handjob is wrong about DHS report
And this is news?

Faux's Handjob supports Perry's threat of secession
Flakes of a feather flock together.

Faux's secession-sympathizing Handjob attacks Obama's patriotism, suggests he should be investigated by DHS
Speaking with forked tongue - one fork bashing DHS, the other extolling DHS to do his wishes.

Faux's Handjob asks Aluminum (excuse me - Steele) of Obama: "Is there anything that he likes about this country?"
yes, but the things that are actually this country and not the fevered convolutions of fantasyland.

Back to our regular Faux News Wing-nuts:

Faux News defends the shrub's and cabal's use of torture
Again, this is news, how?

Faux Nation headline: "Taliban copies Democrat [sic] playbook"
Considering it is the repugicans who are in lockstep with the Taliban Doctrine, this is hilarious on so many levels.

Faux News military analyst says Obama and Chavez were "fist bumping and making lovey dovey"
Yeah, that and my aching back!

Of course we have O'Really:

Faux and O'Really take 'full credit' for derailing Spanish investigation of American torture
Who said it is derailed? Don't be lulled into thinking you're going to get away with it, boys.

Good Question

Good Question: Is crazy anti-Obama rhetoric intended to unhinge the mainstream right?

Freddie Mac CFO found dead

Executive David Kellermann was discovered in his Virginia home.

Freddie Mac CFO found dead

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Daily Horoscope

Today's horoscope says:

Given how busy you've been lately, today, take some time alone to relax.

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