Category: current events
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infants
Have you stockpiled supplies for The Day After The Sequester? Because that’s tomorrow, you know. If you didn’t have the foresight to make sure there were a couple extra cases of gin, whiskey and vodka in your basement, you messed up big time. I’m not coming home without a 2-liter bottle of soda water and… Read.
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gorshin
Have you heard of this sequester thingy they’re doing in Washington DC? It’s basically like the time that Jim, Spock, Scotty and Bones threatened to destroy the Enterprise when a couple of bad guys wanted to take it over. Each one of them had to tell the computer, very slowly and deliberately, not to mention… Read.
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Bam!
Meteors: Nature’s way of asking, “How’s that space program coming along?” Read.
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getting off
I, like just about everybody else on the net this weekend, have been spending too much time playing with the Pulp-O-Mizer, a web site you can use to piece together your own pulp magazine cover from the artwork and fonts provided. Enjoy. Read.
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what then
I’m not sure I understand one of the arguments against the regulation of guns. Help me out here. I’ve read on teh intarwebs that The Most Holy Second Amendment says that we, the people, should all be allowed to have guns so we can shoot tyrants. Either my copy of the bill of rights is… Read.
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waddaya call
Until the 1970s, the American faux spouse was too rare and taboo to even try to track. In 1980, the United States Census Bureau made its first attempt at naming these creatures in order to count them. It really outdid itself lexicographically: ‘person of opposite sex sharing living quarters,’ abbreviated to POSSLQ and pronounced ‘possle… Read.
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Happy New Year!
https://www.facebook.com/v/1150197485654 Read.
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differences
Peter Sagal: I want to hear your observations, diplomatic as I’m sure they will be, about the differences between the British and the American system [of politics]. Sir Peter Westmacott: Well, you did set up a political system all those years ago which I think was probably designed to ensure that something you rather unkindly… Read.
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The LaPierre Plan
We got to talking about Wayne LaPierre’s proposal that there ought to be armed guards in every school in the nation, and came up with a little back-of-the-envelope business plan for Nationwide Public School Armed Security Service that just might work because, really, this ought to be done with private security guards. They’re easy to… Read.
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The President
The biggest tree in the world: Here’s a link to a video about how they made the photo. Here’s some more photos of this mind-bogglingly big tree. Read.
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