Category: current events
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dishonest assange
Julian Assange, who is most infamously known as the founder of an internet clearing house for “leaked” data, appears in an interview broadcast on mainstream media to warn us all that the U.S. media is very dishonest — more dishonest than anyone knows. Trump live-tweets the show, also using U.S. media. There isn’t enough gin… Read.
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just another nerdity
Did anybody really think that pro football was on the way out? That was the first of “Five Myths about 2014” published in this morning’s Washington Post. Where’d that idea come from? I won’t lie: I think it would be very cool if I was never again stuck in an elevator with someone who asked… Read.
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snxxx
Sat down in the recliner, caught up on the day’s news (Ferguson in flames, university frat houses chock full o’ rapists; I don’t know how you feel about it, but sometimes I think it’d almost be a relief to go back to the days of the cold war and have nuclear Armageddon hanging over our… Read.
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#blacklivesmatter
I’m face palming over white people snottily responding to #BlackLivesMatter with ALLLIVESMATTER. No, you see, we were JUST told they don’t. – Alisha Rai Read.
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Rosetta
After a corkscrew-crazy ten-year trip circling the solar system over and over to catch up with comet 67P C-G, the Rosetta spacecraft has finally entered orbit and sent back some fantastic photographs of the comet before sending a lander to its surface and, ultimately, staying with the comet as it makes its closest approach to… Read.
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crappy govt web site
The government rolled out a crappy web site. That’s gotta be kind of typical, right? I mean, how many government web sites have you been to that were user-friendly? And how many of those crappy web sites has congress spent a whole week investigating? Seriously, those guys have way too much time on their hands. Read.
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smartphone
As I mention earlier, we replaced our dumb phones with smart phones. We made up a lot of reasons that sounded good for doing this but the real reason we did it is that SMART PHONES ARE AWESOME! The dumb phones we had were the pay-as-you-go type, which were fine for making phone calls. In… Read.
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cacophony
Our fair city just barely missed being messily destroyed by the most amazingly violent storm last night, I’m sure of it. There’s no sign of it in the news this morning – no flattened forests, no farm meadows littered with electrocuted livestock – but it made more noise and generated more lightning than any storm… Read.
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bunny
This little guy’s hiding out on our front lawn: He’s about a week old. Several of his brothers and sisters are hiding nearby, but we haven’t seen them yet. Read.
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oogle
How honest is advertising? Check out Kate Upton’s Body! To hell with the winky-winky stuff, check it out! Her body! Hey! It’s Kate Upton, whoever she is! Check her out! NOW! CLICK ON HER BODY! DO IT! This little foursquare advertisement has been popping up in the sidebar of Wonkette’s web site for as long… Read.
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