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The Waterblogged.info team sat in stunned and uncharacteristic silence as our obviously exasperated editorial director went over our performance evaluation, point by point, explaining why we not only failed to get the overall Exceeds Expectations rating that we fully anticipated–leading to a raise and water-cooler bragging rights–but instead got spanked with an unexpected and embarrassing [...]

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Diverted any rivers lately? Me neither. The average person rarely has the opportunity. But dictators like, say, Saddam Hussein, do, and darned if they don’t take advantage. After the Gulf War, Hussein—no doubt rubbing his hands together and laughing maniacally—demanded that the flow of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers be diverted from the Iraq marshlands, [...]

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