The Onion: “Shooting Suspect Released After Not Breaking Any Arizona Laws.”
Paul Constant
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Anonymous on the Internet No More?
Hazy reports are coming out about Gary Locke’s plan for the U.S. Government to create a universal internet login. I read it first on Engadget: Well, though details are still pretty scant, U.S. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke, speaking at an event at the Stanford Institute, stressed that the new system would not be akin to […]
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Politics and the Shooting
Look: The thing is, when you are writing political copy or giving a political speech, you should always remember that you are speaking to the craziest person who will read your message. Any government official who has held a town meeting or been required to sift through every public comment on an issue knows this. […]
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The Heartbreak of Lowered Expectations: Boehner Edition
The sad thing is that when I read this piece about John Boehner unequivocally stating that he believes Obama was born in the United States… Despite Boehner’s reluctance to control the fringe elements of his party who believe that Obama wasn’t born in the United States, in his mind, he said, the matter is settled. […]
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Screaming Birther Disrupts Reading of Constitution in the House
To celebrate the Republicanization of our government, the entire Constitution is being read aloud on the House floor today. When they got to the part about the president being a natural-born citizen, a crazy Birther started shouting from the balcony about how Obama is a Kenyan who shouldn’t legally be president. The screamer was arrested. […]
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Guess Who Might Be Running for President
Michele Bachmann. Will this lead to Towleroad’s dream ticket?
Posted inReligion
Newsflash: God Is a Teabagger
Bad news for 2011! God appeared to Pat Robertson and told him to tell us that America is in debt and that there will be a reckoning in two years. Here’s the rest of God’s message. Praised be His name!
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It Is Not Almost Two Thousand and Eleven
It’s twenty-eleven, you guys, and Jack Stuef explains why.
Posted inBikes
YikeBike vs. Mini-Farthing: You Make the Call!
According to Engadget, the YikeBike is now available for order. $3,595 will get you a foldable electric bike with a six-mile range that can go up to fifteen miles per hour. You can see the YikeBike in action here. Watch it being folded up here. While I think the price (and the apparent lack of […]
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Will Katie Couric Call It “Kinsexting?”
I’m shocked it took this long: Someone has figured out a way to turn Kinect into a porn delivery service: (Via Geekologie.)
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“Obama’s Worst Nightmare”
Over at conservablog Red State, they’ve been running a poll to see who their readers would like to see become the Republican candidate for president in 2012. They’ve cycled through three rounds, with satisfying results like: David Petraeus beat Jeb Bush. John Bolton beat John Thune. Haley Barbour beat Rick Perry. And now they’re down […]
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Tablets Are the Future of Comics
If you had any doubt, Robot 6 points out that three of the top five grossing iPad apps this year are comic-book-related: This reflects not just the quality of the iPad as a comics medium for comics but also the large numbers of comics that must be selling through those apps (the apps themselves are […]