Finally! We have evidence!


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Our gadgets make us ‘deaf’ to the world, study confirms
A newly-identified phenomenon that’s common in everyday life, inattentional deafness occurs when your attention and focus are placed on a visual task, so you tune out the sounds around you. For example, you may be immersed in the latest must-read bestseller and miss the announcement for your ( Read more... )

What Palin said:

“He who warned uh, the British that they weren’t gonna be takin’ away our arms, uh by ringing those bells, and um, makin’ sure as he’s riding his horse through town to send those warning shots and bells that we were going to be sure and we were going to be free, and we were going to be armed.”

What Revere said:

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OMG - ADORABLE! They did another strip, too - hie yourself over to Pants Are Overrated and poke around. Best new comic blog I’ve happened across in a while
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I was torn between this:

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So let me get this straight. After doing his best to smash up the collective bargain rights of public employees in Wisconsin, not to mention assorted anti-union efforts and all of that earlier this year, Governor Walker puts out this video clip on YouTube:


[Audio: Don't bother]

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Great photo montage. Not sure to whom to attribute this - will correct asap when I find out. Found here via @drgrist (twitter). Hard to believe we’re only four months into this year, eh?


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So that explains the function of that … hat


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I love this commercial spot! It’s absolutely adorable…

Apparently there are Italian conservatives complaining about this (what else would you expect), going so far as to say it’s “unconstitutional”. Whee! The crazy, it knows no national boundaries!

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