America’s Smartest Cities

Which metropolis has the most intelligent residents? The Daily Beast crunched the data on the brainpower of America’s 55 largest cities, from first-to-worst.

  1. Raleigh-Durham
  2. San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose
  3. Boston
  4. Minneapolis-St. Paul
  5. Denver

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The highest Texas city on the list comes to no surprise – Austin at number 12.

Houston comes in at 46, Dallas-Fort Worth comes in at 48, and San Antonio is at 53.

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Lawyer sues to end Dallas group’s ‘threat’ prayers

A former military lawyer who served in the Reagan White House and worked for Ross Perot is suing a Dallas-based religious organization in a case that could test the limits of free speech and prayer.

Mikey Weinstein, founder of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, said he wants Gordon Klingenschmitt, a former U.S. Navy chaplain, to “stop asking Jesus to plunder my fields … seize my assets, kill me and my family then wipe away our descendants for 10 generations.”

The suit also asks the court to stop the defendants – Klingenschmitt and Jim Ammerman, the founder of the Dallas-based Chaplaincy of Full Gospel Churches – from “encouraging, soliciting, directing, abetting or attempting to induce others to engage in similar conduct.”

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Bacon Lamp Shade

Kris Kelly created a bacon lamp shade and posted the photos on his Flickr account.  I know nominate him for a spot on Mount Rushmore.

I can only imagine the smell after putting in a high wattage bulb for about an hour.

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