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August 2012
August 30, 2012
August 28, 2012
Weather report: "a throbbing purple penis surrounded by a rainbow"
"Andrew Sullivan helpfully observes of the party crasher: '[Tropical Storm] Isaac doesn’t appear to be a Republican, and not only because it presents on the weather map as a throbbing purple penis surrounded by a rainbow.'"
August 27, 2012
August 23, 2012
August 20, 2012
Leave Rep. Kevin Yoder Alone, Please
He took his clothes off -- at night -- and went swimming.
Has he ever denoucned skinny dipping? Or advocated persecuting skinny dippers? Was he the sponsor of a bill to ban skinny dipping?
No.
If it had been a Democrat, we'd be already be denouncing Fox's coverage. Let it go.
via www.pitch.com
August 19, 2012
August 17, 2012
August 14, 2012
August 13, 2012
August 11, 2012
August 09, 2012
Dr. Suess' career in advertising
"Before Green Eggs and Ham, Theodore Seuss Geisel was an illustrator for magazines and corporate advertisers. Who knew?
The rest of his early work can be found here."
via thedailywh.at
August 08, 2012
August 07, 2012
Chocolate Dick Hats
The product we've all been waiting for, right? There's also a cowboy hat and a top hat.
August 03, 2012
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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