Governor Palin admitted to possible pressure from her administration to fire former Department of Public Safety Director Walt Monegan. But it's how the Governor and her staff are explaining this latest development, compared to what they've said just last month, that is noteworthy. The taped phone call we all heard Wednesday reveals possible pressure. But when pressed to explain how these latest developments play into what was said in the past, one could be left scratching their head.

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Excerpt: In the lawless world of Guantanamo -- and the United States' even murkier network of secret prisons run by or on behalf of the CIA -- it has taken six years and four months for British resident Binyam Mohamed to secure anything resembling justice.

Ghost Hunt Indy (GHI) is a paranormal investigative group that was formed in November of 2006 out of a shared interest in the unexplained by two women from Central Indiana. In August of 2008, GHI merged resources with Midwest Paranormal Syndicate. With this merger came the acquisition of not only a seasoned paranormal investigative team, but also a wellspring of state of the art ghost hunting equipment. Both units now operate under the GHI name, and with the merger, GHI boasts a total of 12 investigators.

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These athletes are turning the stereotype of the inarticulate jock on its empty head. But they have more on their minds than endorsements and bad calls. Just try to match the pros with their prose.
 

Drive-in theaters are just a bit of nostalgia for most of the country, but Geekdad writer Kathy Ceceri can choose from five drive-ins in her vicinity.

Excerpt: Mamdouh Habib, an Australian citizen, was living in Sydney with his wife and four children when he took a trip alone to Pakistan to find a home for his family.

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Daniel Gross, Slate: The most revolutionary notion in commerce today is one of the oldest. If you want to buy something, you may actually have to pay for it. We are reverting from a "borrow and buy" economy to the "cash and carry" model of our grandparents.The Olesons may have extended store credit to Ma and Pa Ingalls in Little House on the Prairie, but widespread consumer credit is a very recent phenomenon. It began in the 1920s, when expensive consumer durables-cars, refrigerators-were first produced in mass quantities.

I'm not sure why anyone would need a home theater carpet, well unless they had quite a bit of expendable income. If I was ever to win the lottery I know I would build a house with a home theater, but the chances of that happening are slim, so I'm back to wondering why I would it.

Excerpt: Politicians regularly turn public fear into votes. President Bush proved a master at this in his 2004 reelection success.

Check out the first two minutes of this clip of Mythbusters Adam Savage telling the folks at the HOPE hacker conference about how the Discovery Channel was bullied by big credit card companies out of airing a program about how crappy the security in RFID tags is: