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10 flagrant grammar mistakes that make you look stupid 

#2: It's for its (or god forbid, its')

No: Download the HTA, along with it's readme file.

Yes: Download the HTA, along with its readme file.

No: The laptop is overheating and its making that funny noise again.

Yes: The laptop is overheating and it's making that funny noise again.

My writing is often a tossed salad of typos and grammar mistakes so articles like this tend to catch my eye. I choose to highlight number 2 because it's one that I see quite a bit. Let me blame college and work for a terrible habit That I cannot seem to shake. I take mental and physical notes and tend to write in a memo style rather then taking my time to fully explain things. That tendency for briefness has its charms, but can also be frustrating for some readers. Blogs do not really help because I read so many in the course of a week that I appreciate brief and direct at the loss of full and nuanced.

 Tooth gives up oldest human DNA

Scientists have recovered DNA from a Neanderthal that lived 100,000 years ago - the oldest human-type DNA so far.

It was extracted from the tooth of a Neanderthal child found in the Scladina cave in the Meuse Basin, Belgium.

The study, reported in Current Biology, suggests our distant cousins were more genetically diverse than once thought.

Their diversity had declined, perhaps because of climate change or disease, by the time early humans arrived in Europe about 35,000 years ago.

This reminds me of Jurassic Park where the guy that ran the park had incomplete dinosaur DNA sequences so he used frog DNA to fill in the gaps. Previously, according to the article this means that sciebtists now have a longer and more complete neanderthal sequence to work with thus telling us more about what they were like.

Montel to Urge N.J. on Medical Marijuana 

Television personality Montel Williams plans to tell a New Jersey senate panel on Thursday how marijuana relieves his chronic pain caused by multiple sclerosis, and urge New Jersey lawmakers to enact medical marijuana laws, as 11 other states already have.

Williams, 49, who was diagnosed with MS seven years ago, said he turned to marijuana to relieve debilitating knee and foot pain after trying Oxycontin and a variety of other drugs to no avail.

Williams, a registered medical marijuana user in California, said he became an activist pushing for medical marijuana laws after being stopped at a Detroit airport by an Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms officer for carrying drug paraphernalia. The charge was later dropped.

"For me, marijuana eases the pain in my feet on a scale of 1 to 10, brings it from a 6 down to a 4 and keeps it there makes it manageable so I can deal with the rest of my day," said Williams. "Why should it not be available?" 

Never have understood the puritanical hypocrisy whereby society runs beer commercials 24/7 yet would be deny hard working taxpayers marijuana to relieve chronic pain. Not really the government's business.