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May 09, 2013
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March 25, 2013
Asbestos-contaminated tarantula could be on the loose!
"A web of intrigue surrounds a gruesome discovery in a 19th century attic – where a large tarantula skin, potentially contaminated with asbestos, has been found. The shock find was made during a routine survey by Cardiff asbestos specialists Kusten Vorland....Although it had been assumed Katie had stumbled on a dead tarantula, when we showed the evidence to Cardiff Reptile Centre, they said the bagged exhibit was just a shed skin - meaning the spider, thought to be a Chilean Rose Tarantula, could still be at large."
March 14, 2013
March 10, 2013
For the children!
Ridiculous sticker on the passenger dash of our U-Haul truck
February 25, 2013
February 20, 2013
Mississippi Abolishes Slavery!
"The state of Mississippi has officially ratified the 13th amendment to the U.S. Constitution, a long overdue motion to abolish slavery that originally began more than two centuries ago on December 6, 1865, but was never completed, according to the latest discovery by University of Mississippi professor Ranjan Batra and anatomical material specialist Ken Sullivan. The two academics apparently started looking into the status of the 13th amendment after watching Steven Spielberg's Oscar-nominated Lincoln and after learning that the ratification had never passed, they contacted Mississippi's secretary of state who arranged the passage of the bill which took place earlier this month on February 7."
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January 29, 2013
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October 19, 2012
Central Mississippi Tea Party President says women shouldn't vote
“Our country might have been better off if it was still just men voting. There is nothing worse than a bunch of mean, hateful women. They are diabolical in how than can skewer a person.”
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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