Hint: When Someone Yells SQUIRREL!, It’s Not About the Squirrel

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I Think I Like *Matrix Reloaded* Better This Way

Let’s face it: fistfights between immortal, indestructable beings are boring because you know no one will die or even get hurt – until they suddenly do.

Which is sorta like how 80’s video games handled displaying physical damage to your protagonist.

Might as well SOUND like an 80’s video game, then:


[8-bit Matrix – SFSU BECAfest 2013 Winner: Best Sound Design] (Viewer #1,350,542)

Might Work

President Obama is reportedly considering executive actions to reduce the number of illegal immigrant deportations.

That’s a great idea – if you do it by not letting them in in the first place.

You KNOW This Is Obama’s Next Government Program

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Since it seems that the president has declared frequent vacations to be an absolute necessity of life, Hope n’ Change is wondering why the government isn’t making them available to everyone? Isn’t it time that all citizens had access to an Obamacation without regard to pre-existing conditions like, oh, being broke and jobless?

Perhaps when a well-rested Obama eventually returns to Washington, he’ll bring with him the new guidelines for this “Affordable Carefree Act.”

Link of the Day: 39 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About Doctor Who

[High Praise! to Buzzfeed]

39 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About “Doctor Who”

Since you’ve all had the crash course on Dr. Who from Basil, I expect fewer of these items will be mysteries to you than to regular folk.

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Wisdom of the Day: Tanks Partisan Babies Urinals

Better Idea

The New York Times is considering the introduction of a truncated version of its daily print edition at a discounted rate.

So what’s their next desperate move? Bring back newsboys with tweed caps & knickers?

Obama Warned Us – Poverty

“Let’s make sure anyone who is working full time isn’t living in poverty.” — President Obama #OpportunityForAll #RaiseTheWage

@BarackObama

“#OrLowerThePovertyLine”

Straight Line of the Day: Google’s New Satellites Will Have the Ability to…

Works like this: I feed you Moon Nukers a straight line, and you hit me with a punch line in the comments.

Google’s new satellites will have the ability to…

Random Thoughts: Ferguson, Obama, and Iraq

Reminder: If you want the media’s help in holding your elected officials accountable, make sure they’re all Republican.

We need a militarized police to make sure everyone buys health insurance.

My twitter feed is primarily the right saying how awful police abuses are in Ferguson and the left saying the right are ignoring Ferguson.

You’ll never hear the right comment on things if you don’t actually know anyone on the right.

I don’t know why Pauline Kael got all that criticism; I don’t know anyone who voted for Nixon either. That was like a hundred years ago.

So has anyone in the media figured out how to blame the Ferguson on Republicans or are they still working on that?

Maybe the president is planning a short, honest speech. “I don’t really care about this.”

Anyone think of getting Obama a digital watch? Maybe he doesn’t know how to read an analog one and that’s why he’s always late.

This is big government. The whole point of big government is that it’s big and scary so you have to do what it says.

Liberty and distrust of big government is not just for white males.

I’m just happy when the president doesn’t make things worse.

I have to say, the Obama presidency has been very educational to a lot of different people in a lot of different ways.

The president is trying to lead by example. Everyone in Ferguson is supposed to drop everything and go golfing.

If you don’t hear the right talking about Ferguson, you really need to clean the epistemic closure out of your ears.

Progressive philosophy is forcefully take money and power from the people and throw it to the govt assuming only good people will catch it.

Will I ever stop feeling guilty about how in 2002 I went out and socialized on Friday nights instead of staying home watching Firefly?

Iraq has been consistently rated by US presidents as one of the top spots to invade.

“I promise that there will be no more boots-on-the-ground in Iraq. Wait… do uggs count?”

An important principle to always remember: The government only has the ability to give insofar as it has the ability to take.

Everyone in the police is out of control; CSIs are going to funerals and making quips about dead people they’re not even investigating.

The left’s belief that conservatives are motivated by racism is a religious tenet and thus there is no logically arguing against it.

There seems like a lot the left and the right can come together on about Ferguson. Maybe we should stop jabbing each other in the eye.

Eh. Probably not.

What’s happening in Ferguson is really making me question the wisdom of making a Robocop.

Seen That Show Before

Hollywood’s latest project: a new version of the classic celebrity panel game show, “To Tell The Truth”.

Which won out over Lois Lerner’s proposed vehicle, “To Plead the Fifth”.