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The evils of PowerPoint

Lazy students

Old people are an evil cartel

Solution to the nation’s financial crisis

We are great in spite of our democracy

Sniffing the bicycle seats of game show winners

A little rant about Gold’s Gym

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Watercooler All-stars is a news commentary podcast hosted by Erik Groves and Adam Cochran.

Groves is a rich and powerful attorney and Cochran is a recovering computer tech. Both teach at Colorado Mesa University.

About this show:

Why has it been so long since the last show?

Apple is rich.

Nancy Grace is stupid.

Casey Anthony is almost as stupid as Nancy Grace.

Social Security = What would happen if you gave Madoff the ability to print money.

French Hondas are cool.

Fiat is back and better than ever – that’s not saying much.

Good lawyers vs. bad juries.

What is cellphone tapping and why do we care?

Reality TV stinks.

Cochran is a hippie.

Remember when special class was the class you didn’t want to go to?

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A new study has found a way to make their new study newsworthy.

Stress causes heart attacks in some people. A Superbowl loss can cause stress in some people. Therefore, Superbowl losses cause heart attacks.

Where’s our Nobel Prize?

Super Bowl may trigger heart attacks – CNN.com.

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This week the CDC and other health agencies concluded that the mass bird deaths are simply a coincidence. Here is a cool Google map that tracks the amazing coincidence.

Mass Animal Deaths – Google Maps.

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In this episode we discuss:

The best of he TSA stories

A woman who was locked in the bathroom for three weeks

The royal wedding

“Reality” TV

The fall of the American dollar

The constitutionality of profiling

MTVs teen moms

Much more

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We know, you are tired of all of the news coverage about pet reincarnation lately. However, we are sure that there is still one person left in the world who has not read about the topic this week.

Woman Says Pets Can Reincarnate – Atlanta News Story – WGCL Atlanta.

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The story if about the rescue of a stranded rafter. Here is a quote from the story.

“Hopper, nicknamed Goat Man for his ability to scale mountainsides, said he started out Wednesday morning on the Sacramento River, where he loaded a $300 inflatable raft with camping supplies, two burritos, a bag of vitamins, a Bible and a mannequin of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.”

via Coast Guard rescues man on Suisun Bay’s Roe Island.

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Leave it to MTV to glamorize teen motherhood. In a sense, it is a cycle.

Girls grow up watching soap operas, girls copy lifestyle from soap operas, girls lives turn into soap operas, networks hire girls to air soap opera to young girls.

16, pregnant … and famous: Teen moms are TV’s new stars – USATODAY.com.

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The TSA told NPR that its policies are not inconsistent, they are unpredictable. By not creating a single policy for the TSA to follow, each TSA station creates its own policy which it is told not to follow consistently.

It’s all for your safety.

TSA: Unpredictability Is Part Of Security Process : The Two-Way : NPR.

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