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Barbara Clayton would gladly unburden herself to this room, filled mostly with women, about her nightmarish journey through the child welfare system: the unreturned phone calls, the dismissive treatment, the apparent insistence on the part of the Department of Human Services (DHS) to put her grandson up for adoption. Instead, she just explains how she's "been working very hard to get my grandson back."

Boy Scouts ignore city-imposed deadline to lift ban against gay and atheist members. And they still wear those little handkerchiefs, right? And all those pieces of flair? Minus 4

I remember so well the final morning hours of the Kyoto conference. The negotiations had gone on long past their scheduled evening close, and the convention-center management was frantic — a trade show for children's clothing was about to begin, and every corner of the vast hall still was littered with the carcasses of the sleeping diplomats who had gathered in Japan.

From nonsmokers: It's great that police got such a large amount of a dangerous drug off our streets, big step for the war on drugs. From pot smokers: Hold on man, overdoses? On weed? Did they eat too many Cheetos or something?

by Brian Hickey

by Mary F. Patel