thursday reads

The bu$h administration announced an unprecedented package of unilateral sanctions against Iran today, including the long-awaited designations of its Revolutionary Guard Corps as a proliferator of weapons of mass destruction and of the elite Quds Force as a supporter of terrorism.


Detained Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi held talks with a representative of the ruling junta for more than an hour on Thursday, state television said.


Kucinich Will Force Impeachment Vote Before Thanksgiving


The New York Times takes a look at the Blackwater compound in Baghdad.

The Washingto Post takes a peek at Rep. Waxman's House Oversight Committee staff.


Red Sox 13, Rockies 1


Human species 'may split in two'

Humanity may split into two sub-species in 100,000 years' time as predicted by HG Wells, an expert has said.

Evolutionary theorist Oliver Curry of the London School of Economics expects a genetic upper class and a dim-witted underclass to emerge.

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The descendants of the genetic upper class would be tall, slim, healthy, attractive, intelligent, and creative and a far cry from the "underclass" humans who would have evolved into dim-witted, ugly, squat goblin-like creatures.