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Upon reading Sarah Palin’s account of Paul Revere’s rider (“He who warned uh, the British that they weren’t gonna be takin’ away our arms, uh by ringing those bells…”), I couldn’t get the following image out of my head:
Sarah Palin was in Boston yesterday giving a history lesson. Mediaite (“Watch CNN Anchor’s Deadpan Reaction To Sarah Palin’s Version Of Paul Revere’s Midnight Ride“): Sarah Palin is in Boston today, meeting with supporters and other curious elements. She is also chatting about how meaningful being in such a historic region is to her on [...]
“Our records indicate that your annual income for the 2011 taxable year was $2,170,000,000,000. You have requested a credit limit of $17,000,000,000,000. These figures exceed the American Public’s guidelines for credit issuance”
It looks like this may have been a joke that got out of hand: ALLENDALE TOWNSHIP — A 20-year-old woman accepted a $1,000 eBay bid to sell her 2-year-old cousin, police said, describing the girl as someone who “can clean and hold a decent conversation.” Ottawa County sheriff’s detectives tracked down the woman using a [...]
An amusing parody, but I’m not sure what point they’re trying to make: CORUSCANT — Obi-Wan Kenobi, the mastermind of some of the most devastating attacks on the Galactic Empire and the most hunted man in the galaxy, was killed in a firefight with Imperial forces near Alderaan, Darth Vader announced on Sunday. In a [...]
The rebel and onion armies showed grose negligence by having many of their battles right inside national parks, like Gettysburg.
Floridians are going to have to start pulling up their pants and stop having sex with animals soon.
The Atlantic’s Jim Fallows dubs this the Greatest Front Page Ever: A day filled with romance, pageantry, and playfulness is sealsed with a kiss: Osama bin Laden is dead”
Cartoonist John Cole of the Scranton Times-Tribune offers this take on yesterday’s big news: His blog commentary: Abottabad, the Pakistani city wherein justice finally caught up with Osama bin Laden, reportedly crawls with that country’s military. A major army base and military academy are located in the city of 100,000, which begs the question: How [...]
A special surprise was waiting this morning for those who subscribe to Jim Geraghty’s Jolt newsletter.
Thoreau envisions the mashup of Tolkien’s Hobbit and Tarentino’s Pulp Fiction: Balrog: “Quenya, spider-f**ker, do you speak it?” [...] The way your uncle Bilbo looked at it, this Ring was your birthright. He’d be damned if any Orc’s gonna put their greasy yellow hands on his nephew’s birthright, so he hid it, in the one [...]
This is pretty staggering news: According to experts, the Connecticut-based franchise, which arranges skewered pieces of fruit into displays vaguely resembling floral bouquets, has defied all modern economic models, expanding continuously for the past decade despite its complete lack of any discernible consumer appeal. “In theory, the market should have done away with Edible Arrangements [...]
Philip Greenspun wonders, “How did the New York Times manage to spend $40 million on its pay wall?”
To honor the administration’s “no boots on the ground” statements, all covert U.S. personnel in Libya will work barefoot. – Jim Geraghty
Politico’s Matt Wuerker illustrates the funding disparity between the U.S. Department of Defense and the U.S. Institute of Peace.
Customers at a Radio Shack in Montana have an opportunity to get a free gun if they switch to Dish Network.
As Steven Taylor noted yesterday afternoon, Donald Trump released what he purported to be his birth certificate, his latest publicity stunt in the bizarre circus he’s been engaged in lately. There’s just one problem. The document Trump released isn’t an official birth certificate: The paper that Trump released says “Jamaica Hospital” on top and lists [...]
Obama Captain America parody: I’m not punching you Gaddafi I’m having a limited humanitarian intervention with your face.
From the Onion News Network: “Jean Anne Whorton goes Beyond The Facts, talking to the high school sophomore who has become a conservative hero for refusing to learn his Spanish vocabulary.” Patriotic Teen Fails Spanish Via Adam Serwer, who tweets that, “The problem with the Onion is I can imagine something like this happening.” Indeed.
Meet Hugo Chavez, President of Venzuela and Xenoarcheologist: CARACAS (Reuters) – Capitalism may be to blame for the lack of life on the planet Mars, Venezuela’s socialist President Hugo Chavez said on Tuesday. “I have always said, heard, that it would not be strange that there had been civilization on Mars, but maybe capitalism arrived [...]
Comedian Gilbert Gottfried is the latest idiot celebrity to damage their career on Twitter.
A Welcome to Wisconsin sign with another sign saying “A Division of Koch Industries” is going around Twitter.
The peculiar habit of some Indo-Europeans of assigning gender to nouns is frustrating and amusing.
Washington Wire: “I hope today, all of you feel free to make yourselves at home. For those of you with a particular interest in the next election, I don’t mean that literally.” — President Barack Obama, welcoming governors to the White House. A moment later, he gestured toward Mississippi’s GOP Gov. Haley Barbour and the [...]
