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Dinosaurs Join the Boiled Frog Wars
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Reuters San Bernardino Votes to Move Past Bankruptcy, Plus Pandas and the Finale to the Boiled Frog Saga
News from every corner of the world
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Et Tu, QZ? The Boiled-Frog Watch Returns
You don’t often have a chance to use the word “decerebrated.” But it applies here.
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I Trust This Is Meant Ironically
Can the frog jump before the water boils?, wonders a New York Times headline about China's political scene.
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The (Apparent) Return of Xi Jinping, Plus West Coast Live Update
A missing Chinese figure returns to the scene.
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Labor Day Special Part Deux: 'Ooops!' in Four Acts
Tennis players, politicians, robots, and Canadians -- all gone wild.
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At Last! Good News on the Boiled-Frog Front
If you drop some frog eggs into a pot of boiling water, they hop right out. But put them in a nice pool of pleasantly warm water...
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I Know That PIMCO's Bill Gross Is Supposed to Be Smart And All ...
A savant uses a fresh and accurate metaphor
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The Greatness of Tom Tomorrow, Chapter 514
A reminder of why pictures, and even drawings, are worth so many words
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Carl Pope and the Boiled Frogs
When looking for an animal-themed metaphor, down with the boiled frogs, and up with the scorpions!
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The Liberals' Equivalent of Birtherism ...
If you throw an environmentalist into a convention of Birthers, he'll storm right out. But if you gradually start whispering Birther theories...
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Animals in the News Dept: Boiling Frogs, Rapping Pandas
Someone figures out the boiling frog conundrum
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I Agree With the Underlying Political Point, But....
What would boiled frogs say about the "Ground Zero mosque"?
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It Never Ends: The Boiling Frogs
The two latest occurrences of a fictitious but irresistible cliche
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This Is Gruesome, but....
A tragic and unintended human case study of what happens if living things are plunged into a cauldron of boiling water. Do they jump right out, like the famous "boiled frog"? Unfortunately, no.
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Boiled Frog Does a Surreal Meta-Backflip
A scientist tells us that it's hard to separate fact from fiction these days. How right he is!
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Drollest boiled-frog-inspired imagery so far
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Airplane noise, senior-citizen driving: replacements for frogs
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Once and for all with the frogs
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Well, at least Glenn Beck has confirmed my theory
