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27 Oct 2009 22:32

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Politics: Harry Reid wants to dance with somebody who loves him

  • We think Harry Reid grew up a lonely, sad, single high-schooler. The Senate Majority Leader says the real problem with Republicans on health care is that they’re doing everything in their power to do anything but dance. By this standard, Joe Lieberman is a gender-bending tranny who came to the dance dressed as a guy and left wearing mascara.source
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27 Oct 2009 10:18

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Politics: A progressive publisher is “Going Rogue” on Sarah Palin’s book

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  • So, which one of these editorial classics do you want to read? We were kinda hoping to read the one with Sarah Palin on the cover.source
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18 Oct 2009 12:04

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Offbeat: This guy’s a little too drunk to be getting more beer

  • If we were ever this drunk, one of you would tell us to stop, right? This guy has to hold his drunk self up by the door handle of the cooler where the beer’s at.source
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15 Oct 2009 21:10

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Offbeat: Anne Frank: Here’s our favorite of the many Balloon Boy memes

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12 Oct 2009 11:02

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Tech: The content industry’s long history of fearing new technology

  • Under such conditions, the tide of amateurism cannot but recede until there will be left only the mechanical device and the professional executant.
  • John Philip Sousa • In a 1906 article titled “The Menace of Mechanical Music,” making a passionate argument against the use of the player piano and the gramophone. In a way, he was right – people don’t sing kum-bay-ya around the campfire much anymore – but even he admitted his claims rang a little alarmist. Ars Technica has a great article covering the ways that mainstream content creators have freaked out over new technology. Other new ideas scorned? The photocopier, the VCR, home taping, MP3s, DVRs and Digital TV and radio. Amusing read. • source
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03 Oct 2009 03:02

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Offbeat: A multitasking bra: Gas masks have never come in DD cups before

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  • Whoever invented this is a freaking genius. The Annals of Improbable Research organization says so. They gave it a Nobel Prize. It’s a bra designed to be worn on the face in case someone farts. We think.source
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02 Oct 2009 15:19

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Politics: Chicago’s Olympic fight: A battle of nerds and jocks?

  • We see this same jocks-vs.-nerds conflict play out every time a pro sports team threatens to skip town unless the taxpayers cough up money for a new stadium.
  • Brad Flora (of The Windy Citizen, a site we really like and recommend) • On the fate of the Olympics in Chicago, which took a nosedive in part because of strong skepticism the endeavor faced for years from what Flora describes as nerdy critics who pointed out budget crises that could be caused by two weeks of sweaty people doing sweaty things. Flora portrays Obama as the guy whose job was to bridge both the nerds and the jocks, having cred with both. But he couldn’t pull it off. • source
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28 Sep 2009 09:58

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Offbeat: President Barack Obama: A beacon for facial consistency

  • Dude is such a good politician that he can keep the same pose no matter who he’s standing with. This, friends, is an awesomely goofy video.source
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25 Sep 2009 19:17

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Offbeat: This is the biggest number we’ve ever posted on the site

1,784 billion, trillion dollars
  • Some guy named Dalton Chiscolm with a lot of pent-up anger against Bank of America sued the financial giants for this amount of money. We wonder what size bills he would like that in.source
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23 Sep 2009 11:14

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World: Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi: I’m in a tent! I’m in a tent!

If you were the leader of Libya, wouldn’t you want a freaking Bedouin tent in the middle of Bedford, New York? Authorities wouldn’t let him do it, though. source
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