I'm afraid that a recent round of antihistamines has drained me of creativity in terms of "Gotcha!" April Fool's Day pranks ~ I'll try again next year, or maybe before then when you least expect it ( Read more... )

I don't usually get so addicted to viral videos, but I'm in awe of the K-Pop hit "Gangnam Style" by Psy which as of this minute has 334,657,135 views on YouTube. Not only is it catchy, funny, imaginative and easy to dance to, but there's a host of parodies and tributes ( Read more... )

When I watched Ryan accept as Romney's VP this morning, all I could think of was that he looks like Gabe from "The Office." LOL It reminded me of the day McCain chose Palin and we talked about Tina Fey - read the comments.

I was pretty freaked out over Palin, but this time around I feel more relaxed. I think the power of snark is going to be Romney/ ( Read more... )

I wasn't born with a silver spoon in my mouth. Michelle wasn't, either. But somebody gave us a chance. Just like these folks up here are looking for a chance.
~ President Barach Obama in a speech to a group of students in Elyria, Ohio, from MSNBC, Official White House transcript HERE

Speaking of rhetoric, he (President Obama) had some fiery rhetoric ( Read more... )

I wasted some time (in a good way) looking through the Harry Potter Humor Tumblr last night and found some gems.


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“If the Democrats said we had a war on caterpillars and every mainstream media outlet talked about the fact that Republicans have a war on caterpillars, then we’d have problems with caterpillars. It's a fiction ( Read more... )

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For readers in other countries: Dick Cheney was the scariest Vice President we ever had. I still remember watching his speech in which he personally "announced" that we were going to war with Iraq in a completely dead voice as if we were sending soldiers off to a picnic. Cold as a zombie, that man, with a voice like Voldemort. Which explains why so ( Read more... )

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Etch A Sketch stock closed up 140% today.
~ Tweeted by Nate Silver, Statistician and Political Blogger ( Read more... )

I was sort of depressed last night after Romney's cheerful and bizarre speech in Illinois in which he said all kinds of outrageous things about Obama (he would have stopped the Wright Brothers? really?) and made fun of him for going to Law School. Yeah, that Law School-Harvard-the same one Mitt attended when he got a Law Degree.

But today has sooooo ( Read more... )