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Australia has roughly the same chance of winning the World Cup as a person has of tossing three sixes with three dice, says a sports statistician.

Paul Craig Roberts: American economists and policymakers are in denial about the effect of jobs offshoring on US employment. Corporate lobbyists have purchased fraudulent studies from economists that claim offshoring results in more US employment rather than less. The same lobbyists have spread disinformation that the US does not graduate enough engineers and that they must import foreigners on work visas. [CounterPunch]

LINDSEY TANNER: To you, that angry, horn-blasting tailgater is suffering from road rage. But doctors have another name for it — intermittent explosive disorder — and a new study suggests it is far more common than they realized, affecting up to 16 million Americans. [Toronto Star]

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tpoker writes to tell us NASA is reporting that the two biggest storms in the solar system are about to collide on Jupiter. From the article: “Storm #1 is the Great Red Spot, twice as wide as Earth itself, with winds blowing 350 mph. The behemoth has been spinning around Jupiter for hundreds of years. Storm #2 is Oval BA, also known as ‘Red Jr.,’ a youngster of a storm only six years old. Compared to the Great Red Spot, Red Jr. is half-sized, able to swallow Earth merely once, but it blows just as hard as its older cousin.”

Federal investigators searched the house of Diamondbacks reliever Jason Grimsley as part of their investigation of steroid use in Major League Baseball.

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The endless torrent of remakes continues! Th…

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Media: US print and online presence to expand in US as part of bid to become biggest liberal voice in world media. [Guardian]

A faithful remake of the 1976 film, starring Liev Schreiber and Julia Stiles as the unwitting parents of the spawn of Satan. Little Damien anticipates the Apocalypse while Schreiber, as the American ambassador to Britain, gets input from Pete Postlethwaite (“the child must die!”), paparazzi David Thewlis and demonologist Michael Gambon. After Damien’s nanny hangs herself, the replacement nanny gets a chuckle from the audience: It’s Mia Farrow, the mother of Rosemary’s baby. Effective, creepy, a little better than the original.

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Well, The Omen isn’t by any stretch o…

Several of our Australian readers have alerted us to a front page story in The Sydney Morning Herald, a personal memoir entitled, “When I was Russell Crowe’s stooge,” written by Jack Marx, a…