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Archive of entries posted on 24th September 2014
The Only Way to Explain What a Ridiculous Decade the 80s Was
When the music is so lame that it can be accurately reproduced with balloon sounds, your pop culture is officially substandard:
[99 Red Balloons – played with red balloons] (Viewer #2,333,858)
For the record, I found the balloon version far more clever and entertaining than the original.
Hot Dogs Work, Too
A new poll shows only 12% think President Obama has a plan for dealing with ISIS.
I’m sure the same 12% also think the best plan for dealing with a house fire is to “grab some marshmallows”.
Motivation!
Link of the Day: Satire Russians Steal 1.2 Billion Passwords from 17 People
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Russians Steal 1.2 Billion Passwords from 17 People
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Skewed Priorities
At a clean energy summit, Hillary Clinton called global warming “the most consequential, urgent, sweeping collection of challenges we face”.
Oh… is it caused by beheading American journalists?
Obama Warned Us – Financial Crisis
There’s been real progress since the financial crisis hit six years ago today, but there’s more work to do: http://ofa.bo/t0sX
“We should be able to get it all done in 29 hours a week, right?”
Straight Line of the Day: Joe Biden Plans to Help President Obama Deal With Illegal Immigration by…
Works like this: I feed you Moon Nukers a straight line, and you hit me with a punch line in the comments.
Joe Biden plans to help President Obama deal with illegal immigration by…
Random Thoughts: Lasers, Scientists, and Equality
In my opinion as a legal expert, that definitely appears to be a law of some sort.
What we need are space lasers. Terrorism won’t end until we can zap terrorists from space.
Ooh, so you’re a scientist, Neil DeGrasse Tyson? Did you invent a laser or an iPhone or anything useful? No? Then shut up.
“I have some new conclusions on black holes.”
“Thanks, Stephen Hawking. That’s super-useful. We’ll put that to good use right away.”
How many times a day am I supposed to apologize for being a straight white male?
We really should finish our previous wars before we begin starting new ones.
Despite all this feminism and equality stuff, women are still going to be the ones birthing babies, right? Because I ain’t doing that.
The reaction to True Detective casting of “Ah! White guys!” shows how many can’t draw a line between fighting racism and being race obsessed.
Panic In a Street!
Oops! Investigators discovered that a hacker broke into part of the HealthCare.gov insurance enrollment website in July and uploaded malicious software.
Authorities warned of “serious risks to the computer of the person who signed up that month”.