English: Lady Gaga performing "Speechless...

Eng­lish: Lady Gaga per­form­ing “Speech­less” on the UK arena of The Mon­ster Ball Tour (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

The week started off bad — another mass shoot­ing, this time at a Sikh tem­ple in Wis­con­sin.  But then NASA sur­vived seven min­utes of ter­ror to land a new rover, the most ambi­tious yet, on Mars. The Olympics ran its sec­ond week, but Fox News alleged the Amer­i­can ath­letes weren’t patri­otic enough, what with all those non-​​red-​​white-​​and-​​blue out­fits. Willard Rom­ney con­tin­ued to not reveal his tax returns, amid rumors he might announce a choice for Vice Pres­i­dent. Bliz­zard Enter­tain­ment was hacked, so you might want to change your pass­words. Again. Lady Gaga appeared on the cover of Vogue. Appear­ing to con­found anti-​​evolutionists, remains of another ancient species of humans was dis­cov­ered in Kenya (no, they didn’t ride dinosaurs).

That’s just some of the stuff that hap­pened this week. What do you want to talk about?

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