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Exactly what you would expect - and want to see. Donny being adoring and gracious and Betty pretending (or not pretending) to get steamy. The volume is low, so turn it up if you need to.

In one year, a single acre of black soldier fly larvae can produce more protein than 3,000 acres of cattle or 130 acres of soybeans. Such yields, combined with the need to find cheap, reliable protein for a global population projected to jump 30 per cent, to 9.8 billion by 2050, present big opportunity for the black soldier fly. The United Nations, which already warns that animal-rich diets cannot stretch that far long term, is encouraging governments and businesses to turn to insects to fulfill the planet’s protein needs. People who’ve seen what black soldier fly larvae can do often...

Today Barack Obama stood before a gaggle of idiots and channeled John Boehner. Good God, I couldn't wait for Boehner to leave lest we have to endure his crying one more time. So what does Obama do? He channels Boehner and sets loose a torrent of crocodile tears carefully summoned to convince you that he really cares about something other than himself. He doesn't, of course. But that's not why I am writing this. I was listening to the news on TV when Obama said something that absolutely set me off. Forget for the moment that nothing he proposed would have...

It didn't take long for Barack Obama — for all his youth and inexperience — to get acclimated to his new role as the calming leader of a country in crisis. "I feel surprisingly comfortable in the job," the nation's 44th president said a mere two weeks after taking the helm. "The challenges are big," a sober Obama added, underscoring the foreign and domestic problems he inherited Jan. 20. "But one thing I'm absolutely convinced about is you want to be president when you've got big problems. If things are going too smoothly, then this is just another nice home...