In 2013 one can have many legitimate beefs with the medical and scientific establishment, but fluoridated water, like immunization, is not one of them. Still, it appears increasingly likely that a Left-Right coalition of dedicated fear-mongers will defeat a measure in Portland this week to fluoridate its water supply and help keep kids' teeth from falling out.

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VFiles Makes The Best Internet Videos You've Never Seen

VFiles' YouTube videos are among the most stupidly entertaining on the internet, and you should be watching all of them. I Love VFiles. I love VFiles so much that I almost don't want to write about it for fear that it gets really popular then MTV turns it into a shitty television show.

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LulzSec Hackers Sentenced For 2011 Cybercrime Spree

Remember LulzSec? The Anonymous-offshoot gang of hackers who alternately terrorized and delighted the internet in the summer of 2011 have been pretty much all rounded up. And today four Brits who were core members of the group were sentenced in the UK for their crimes.

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Feds Seize Assets of World's Largest Bitcoin Exchange

The problems keep coming for Mt. Gox, the world's biggest Bitcoin exchange. Just days after Gawker revealed a key business partnership had devolved into a $75 million lawsuit, the Department of Homeland Security seized a payment processing account belonging to the company, alleging it lied on financial documents.

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3D-Printed Gun Site Gets Censored By The State Department

"No Takedowns. Ever." That was the defiant message that Cody Wilson delivered in a YouTube video promoting Defense Distributed, an organization he founded dedicated to designing and distributing plans for weapons that anyone can make using a 3D printer at home. But after Defense Distributed was targeted by the U.S State…

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South Korea's Alleged Intern-Groping Presidential Spokesman Flees D.C.

Everything was going great for South Korea's new president Park Guen-hye during her first trip to the U.S. Then her spokesman allegedly groped an intern while he was drunk in D.C. earlier this week, and skipped town.

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