Peter Birkenhead, a Salon writer, speculated about the stupidity of people who bought The Secret (mostly in the context of lambasting Oprah's endorsements of it) and an acquaintance of mine quipped, "Does the author really think that the all the millions of people who have bought The Secret are total morons?" To which I replied:
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Ere the other side ye see.

Thanks to calmdahn for the pointer.

Carol of the Old Ones

It's Beginning to Look Alot Like Fishmen

First runner-up and an honorable mention in the Washington Post "Style Invitational" week DCLXXXII (published 20-OCT-2006), in which contestants were asked for songs for a product, company, organization or agency, set to any Beatles song.

Ikea, to the tune of "Norweigan Wood," by Brendan Beary, Great Mills.
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With thanks to peripsol93

Cthocolate

I still love sarcasm, and Colbert is among the best:

"But thankfully Congress is acting and soon English will be the official language of America. Because if we surrender the national anthem to Spanish, the next thing you know, they’ll be translating the Bible. God wrote it in English for a reason! So it could be taught in our public schools."
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You don't appreciate a lot of stuff in school until you get older. Little things like being spanked every day by a middle-aged woman: Stuff you pay good money for in later life.
Emo Philips

And:

The question is absurd: when you ask, 'If God is both all good and all powerful, why then does He allow suffering?', what you are really asking is, 'If ( Read more... )

From David Brooks' NYT opinion column, today entitled "Kicking Arabs right in the teeth" on the recent UAE port-operations debacle, and other anti-Arab hysteria. Any typos are mine.

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in Wired. "I'm not content to live in this culture; I'm going to wallow in it." Particularly struck me as a recovering TiVoholic.

Be open minded, or cynical, or else put on your "I Want to Be Offended" hat. Then go watch this filmstrip with your sound turned on, and prepare to laugh, or stew in your hat.