June 2010
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Nostalgia, Vol. 1
This is Bob Barker. For those of you who have either never seen Happy Gilmore or never watched The Price is Right when Drew Carey still had Whose Line is it Anyway? to host, get the hell of my damn lawn. When I was little, both my parents worked during the day, so after preschool, my grandmother used to pick me up and I’d eat a delicious dish prepared by Chef Boyardee. Then I’d settle...
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A Citizen's View on "America: From Freedom to...
Foreword Recently, I was given Aaron Russo’s riveting 2006 documentary entitled America: From Freedom to Fascism by a friend who is even more liberal than I am. He told me to watch it purely for what we on the Series of Tubes created by Al Gore call “lulz.” As it turns out, the film was not at all what I expected, but considering that I expected it to be a zombie-puppet love story based on ...
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The Rich Eat Differently Than You and Me →
Anthony Bourdain goes on a bender in the Caribbean. From nerve.com.
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A Citizen's View on "America: From Freedom to...
Foreword Recently, I was given Aaron Russo’s riveting 2006 documentary entitled America: From Freedom to Fascism by a friend who is even more liberal than I am. He told me to watch it purely for what we on the Series of Tubes created by Al Gore call “lulz.” As it turns out, the film was not at all what I expected, but considering that I expected it to be a zombie-puppet...
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“A good sandwich should be like good sex - sloppy.”
– Anthony Bourdain
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How to Recognize Different Religious Figures from...
Two days ago, the local news was reporting in my town. The news vans were speeding through the streets of the city and I was curious. Was there a bank robbery? Did this have something to do with the high school yearbooks they were reporting on last week? What could possibly be going on? As it turns out, people are seeing the image of Jesus in an elm tree. The tree has apparently attracted...
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A Citizen's View on "America: From Freedom to...
Foreword Recently, I was given Aaron Russo’s riveting 2006 documentary entitled America: From Freedom to Fascism by a friend who is even more liberal than I am. He told me to watch it purely for what we on the Series of Tubes created by Al Gore call “lulz.” As it turns out, the film was not at all what I expected, but considering that I expected it to be a zombie-puppet love...
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“Write drunk, edit sober.”
– Ernest Hemingway
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“Sounds to me like a quid pro no quo. I want my quo.”
– Dan Stark, The Good Guys Season 1, Episode 2 “Bait and Switch”
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Someone Needs to Pay
This is a Brown Pelican covered in oil sitting on the beach at East Grand Terre Island along the Louisiana coast. This was taken today, Thursday, June 3, 2010 by AP Photographer Charlie Riedel. This is the bill sent to British Petroleum, Transocean Holdings, and several others. These companies owe $70,911,683.93 to the government for the cleanup of the mess they’ve made. Eleven...
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