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April 2011
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"I want to be a walrus. So bad." How I Came to Work at the Wendy's
I have seen in their rubbery flopping-about the end of all my youthful dilletantism
In their fish-hungry barking I have heard the sound of my One True Calling.
Long, but worth every second.
If anyone recognizes the artist please comment or email me.
via imgur.com
April 28, 2011
April 27, 2011
Afterbirthers Demand To See Obama's Placenta
The Onion - America's Finest News Source
WASHINGTON–In the continuing controversy surrounding the president's U.S. citizenship, a new fringe group informally known as "Afterbirthers" demanded Monday the authentication of Barack Obama's placenta from his time inside his mother's womb. "All we are asking is that the president produce a sample of his fetal membranes and vessels—preferably along with a photo of the crowning and delivery—and this will all be over," said former presidential candidate and Afterbirthers spokesman Alan Keyes, later adding that his organization would be willing to settle for a half-liter of maternal cord plasma.
"To this day, the American people have not seen a cervical mucus plug, let alone one that has been signed and notarized by a state-certified Hawaiian health official. If the president was indeed born in the manner in which he claims, then where is his gestation sac?" Keyes said that if Obama did not soon produce at least a bloody bedsheet from his conception, Afterbirthers would push forward with efforts to exhume the president's deceased mother and inspect the corpse's pelvic bone and birth canal.
via www.theonion.com
President Obama's Long Form Birth Certificate made public
Yes, people should be occupied by the important issues, but this just allows the conspiracy-believers to focus on some other nutty thing. Also, there's this.
So by tonight the cable news shouters will have an explanation that denys the validity of this for some other crazy reason. But the real question is: "What will The Donald" do now?
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Another awesome and fun tool from Google: Ngram Viewer
Enter a word, or multiple words, into the Ngram viewer, and it will chart their use in a language-specific sample from Google Books.
Warning: There goes the day!
Why I'm going to Hell
Especially for Becca, who'll be right next to me.
The right graph maes things so clear, doesn't it?
If this is class warfare, we're losing!
- “It is wrong for Warren Buffett’s secretary to pay a higher tax rate than Warren Buffett"
- Occupy: The Original
- CEO pay increased 27 - 40% in 2010
- Pepper Spray Cop joins the parade
- Fox News: Pepper spray is "a food product."
- In Congress Assembled, UC Davis edition
- Perspective on police brutality
- If you're not doing anything bad you have no reason to fear...
- Percentage of Millionaires: Why is tax policy so hard to change?
- We Are The One Percent!
- Batman: "I am the 1%"
- “Thirteen Observations made by Lemony Snicket while watching Occupy Wall Street from a Discreet Distance”
- James Madison spoke against concentrated wealth
- If this is class warfare, we're losing!
- Public perceptions of U.S. income inequality
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Relentlessly Optimistic Links
- The thoughts of Muhammed Saeed al-Sahaf
Should I be worried that the top Google result (update: in October of 1994) for Relentlessly Optimistic is to the former Iraqi Information Minister? That's somewhat offset by the fact that the #3 link is to Sponge Bob Square Pants. - The Meaning of Optimism
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- Learned Optimism
optimists and pessimists attribute the reasons for success and failure differently: it's personal for pessimists. - ITMFA
- Does pessimism soften the blow of bad news?
Science says yes, but that it isn't worth it. - Creative Commons
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