Remember to fill up your car when you're low on gas. Especially when you're robbing a conveniently located gas station.

Shades of the Wild West, except that even Wyatt Earp didn't let people carry guns in bars.

Mississippi's still fattest but Alabama is closing in:
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On the outskirts of Lusaka, Zambia, next year's crop of bicycles is being watered by Benjamin Banda. From bush to bike: a bamboo revolution

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NPR plays obscene word games. The issue is whether or not waterboarding is torture; their answer is that, despite the fact that people have been convicted of war crimes for doing it, because the people who ordered it said it wasn't torture, that raises a reasonable doubt.

[...]I believe that it is not the role of journalists to take sides or to characterize things.
[...]
But no matter how many distinguished groups -- the International Red Cross, the U.N. High Commissioners -- say waterboarding is torture, there are responsible people who say it is not. Former President Bush, former Vice President Cheney, their staff and their supporters obviously believed that waterboarding terrorism suspects was necessary to protect the nation's security.

One can disagree strongly with those beliefs and their actions. But they are due some respect for their views, which are shared by a portion of the American public. So, it is not an open-and-shut case that everyone believes waterboarding to be torture. Many in NPR's audience obviously believe it is, but others do not.

Christ on a motorcycle. I don't know how to respond to that bit of bullshit.