"Black humor" is redundant

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1. Courtney sells some of Kurt's songs to... wait for it... Oh don't worry. It's a good thing. edit:The paper is a tabloid, sometimes makes shit up. Story not yet found elsewhere. Great legend if it's fake, though!
   
   
2. Movies come to life as giant jellyfish attack Japan. Wearing tights can be an effective defense. Students have succeed in turning them into tofu.
   
   
3. Today's Woot deal is a really good bread machine for $75, shipped. Go now buy.
   
   
4. Tulane is hacking itself to pieces after Katrina. WSJ story here may require registration. Short version: They're axing 22 programs of study and firing 53 professors and a third of their medical school faculty. Bye bye university.
   
   
5. The data on Tylenol just gets worse and worse. Now it seems that you can poison yourself with 20 pills a day. I bet a lot of neurotic people do that much Tylenol.

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Abandon ship!

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We had a guest speaker in my urban planning class that used to be a prof at Tulane and was also head of some city planning organization. His position was that, due to environmental challenges (saltwater penetration into the Mississippi), the natural geography of the region, and pollution from the oil interests, New Orleans was not sustainable.

With the education system a mess, cancer rates spiking, and a dwindling economy on top of all that, he actually said that Katrina may have been the best thing to happen to some folks in the area.