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In the news
Something something Casey Anthony blah blah journalism something something national disgrace. -
SQUEEEEEE
William Gibson re-tweeted my joke. -
One of those meme thingies
Meme: Write a poem by setting your music collection to shuffle play and writing down the first line of the first 20 songs that come up, in order. The first line of the 21st song is the title ( Read more... ) -
You probably think that makes you special
From an LATimes story on a successful hoax about Donald Trump:
Reached by phone, Derober's John Resig, 29, spilled the beans and laughingly marveled at the hoax's success. "How many people get on the front page of Fox News with a story that doesn't contain one single ounce of truth?" he wondered in amazement.
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Analogy of the week
Sports guy describing a coach who had just lost a big game:
"He was like a hot-air balloon with all the helium sucked out of it." -
Toward a Nutjob White House
Matt Taibbi reports in Rolling Stone:
Mike Huckabee represents something that is either tremendously encouraging or deeply disturbing, depending on your point of view: a marriage of Christian fundamentalism with economic populism. Rather than employing the patented Bush-Rove tactic of using abortion and gay rights to hoodwink low-income ( Read more... ) -
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"The Novel may be on its last legs, but when it comes to cheap symbolism, contrived conflict, minor traits magnified into mountain peaks, and master narratives into which any trivial event can be plugged, the political pundits are banging their empty coconut heads together until they're all nodding to the same dumb beat. It's like they're trying to ( Read more... )
