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February 13, 2012
January 26, 2012
This means Soylent Green is out, then
OKLAHOMA CITY — A Republican state senator from Oklahoma City introduced a bill Tuesday that would ban the use of aborted human fetuses in food, despite conceding that he's unaware of any company using such a practice.
Image from akopsa.wordpress.com, story from www.kansas.com
January 19, 2012
January 12, 2012
Man fights off Taser police armed with toy lightsaber
"Police in Portland, Oregon, were on the receiving end of 'The Force' when they tried to take down a suspect with the electroshock weapon - and he retaliated using the children's toy with surprising success."
"...So they then tried to use a Taser on him, but the man managed to break the wires free using the toy."
"[Police spokesman said:] 'We believe he used a blue light sabre but he was not dressed as a Jedi at the time.'"
December 14, 2011
December 02, 2011
November 26, 2011
November 23, 2011
Fox News: Pepper spray is "a food product."
Bill O’Reilly: “First of all, pepper spray -- that just burns your eyes, right?”
Megyn Kelly: “It’s like a derivative of actual pepper. It’s a food product, essentially.”
Slackstory has launched an online petition to have Megyn Kelly "“eat or drink a full dose of pepper spray on national television.”
via thedailywh.at
November 15, 2011
November 06, 2011
November 02, 2011
October 28, 2011
"I think my air filter is full of Dirk's man-mass"
Because I've been troubled by my car this week.
I haven't checked the air filter yet...
via wondermark.com
October 27, 2011
Another reason not to eat slugs
An Australian man has been hospitalized for more than a month in serious condition as a result of eating two garden slugs on a dare.
Story from www.nytimes.com Image from absurdityofreality.blogspot.com
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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Favorite Comics
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- Crimes Against Hugh's Manatees
- Cyanide and Happiness
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- Savage Chickens - Cartoons on Sticky Notes by Doug Savage
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- xkcd - A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language - By Randall Munroe
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
- StatCounter
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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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