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For years an email has been circulating about the “Washington Post's Mensa invitational” which includes a very clever list of words made by changing common words. ORIGINAL EMAIL: The Washington Post's Mensa invitational once again asked readers to take any word from the dictionary, alter it by adding, subtracting, or changing one letter, and supply a new definition. Here are the 2009 winners: 1. Cashtration (n.): The act of buying a house, which renders the subject financially impotent for an indefinite period of time. 2. Ignoranus : A person who's both stupid and an asshole. 3. Intaxication : Euphoria at...

With unemployment still above 9% nationwide and new up-ticks to over 12% in the nation’s largest state, President Obama spoke out on the need to “turn things around.” “For an economy to grow we need to build and invent stuff,” the president observed. “I’m not quite sure on what it takes to get stuff invented and built, but my Administration has been working hard to try to put together the right mix of bailouts, subsidies, and tax increases to do the trick.” According to the president, “one of the deterrents to inventing stuff is the uncertainty of turning a profit...

(IsraelNN.com) The Tel Aviv Police Department “invented” a new machine that seemed likely to change the face of criminal interrogations – but it will apparently not be used more than once. The contraption was called a “memory machine,” and was used to persuade a murder suspect that, contrary to his impassioned and repeated claims, he in fact did remember what happened the night of the murder. Maariv/NRG reports that the story began two weeks ago

The Obama administration says that economic prosperity will depend on the United States becoming an “innovation economy.” But innovation success rates in the Unites States have plunged. The USA National Innovation Marketplace – which launches on April 20th through a partnership between The US Department of Commerce NIST/MEP Network and Merwyn Research, Inc. - aims to address the critical challenge of matching inventions from America’s most talented minds with buyers, investors, distributors and manufacturers in desperate need of innovations in order to survive in this economic climate. As more people are laid off from their jobs and dreaming that their...

Commentary: Inventing The "Clinton Recession" Fri Feb 13, 3:59 PM ET No one should be surprised when economic or budget forecasts coming out of Washington are influenced by politics, especially during an election year. But when economic history is rewritten -- with political consequences -- that's going too far. President George W. Bush's Council of Economic Advisers, chaired by Harvard economist N. Gregory Mankiw, is trying to get away with exactly such revisionist history. The CEA's Economic Report of the President, released Feb. 9, unilaterally changed the start date of the last recession to benefit Bush's reelection bid. Instead of...