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• But he plays under the assumption that anything is permissible until she logs on as him and deletes his avatar.

• But a nonprofit making plastic shelters for homeless hermit crabs plans to let underwriters put their logos on the side.

• But it turns out that moths aren't attracted to lights at all. They are simply lost.

• But the fragment of poetry uncovered at an archaeological dig laments the low surf one morning 1300 years ago.

• But the judge throws out a lawsuit against God because the defendant has no known address.

• But rogue economists whisper that the loss of forests is far more costly than the collapse of banks.

• But the state police include anti-war activists on their list of terrorist suspects because they've been known to disrupt traffic.

• But Ecuadorians approve a new constitution that grants ecosystems the right to exist.

• But true believers in the Invisible Hand are mourning the loss of their invisible erection.