Tag Archives: ‘Merica

Will Work For Swine Flu

November 3, 2009 – 3:56 pm

In what amounts to a sound argument for taking better care of our service economy’s indentured servants, The New York Times reports that alarming numbers of H1N1-infected wage slaves are reporting to work sick because, well, they can’t really afford to miss a day’s pay in this economy.
When Latisha Carter caught H1N1 from her 6-year-old [...]

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GOP Death Watch: Day 39,023

November 3, 2009 – 1:46 pm

So here we have Louisiana Senator David Vitter being asked by a consituent about Vitter’s “no” vote on an anti-rape clause in a defense appropriations bill that passed, 68-30, last month. The clause/rider — the first authored by Frosh Senator Al “I Can’t Believe I’m A Senator” Franken — would prohibit funding to military contractors [...]

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Fossil Fuels’ Hidden Costs: $6 Million Per Life

October 20, 2009 – 12:49 pm

A number-filled report released yesterday by the National Academy of Sciences suggests that our current fossil fuel-based transportation economy isn’t as cheap as we think it to be — yet it’s just as crude. (Ha!)
According to The New York Times‘ summary of this report, the United States loses approximately $120 billion every year due to [...]

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Americans Resigned to Perpetual War

October 13, 2009 – 12:26 pm

Not like this should really come as a shock, but what can you do? We’re the home of the Biggie-sized meal, eleven different versions of “CSI,” and baseball stopped being interesting decades ago; why should our stomachs shrink when it comes to something actually exciting, like a war, which at least features explosions? From The Baltimore [...]

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2 + 2 = Ham sandwich

August 26, 2009 – 2:54 pm

 
Attention fatties: If you value your brain, put down that Famous Bowl and step away from the combination Pizza Hut/Taco Bell/KFC. A new UCLA study shows that obese people exhibit higher levels of brain degeneration than their svelte counterparts. On average, corpulent individuals have brains aged prematurely by as much as 8 years.
More than 300 million worldwide [...]

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Obligatory Fourth of July A/V Timewasters

July 3, 2009 – 12:09 pm

Forget for a moment that our country is still fucked and watch these videos, you patriotic hunk of American exceptionalism you!

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Rev. Pagano: “We’re on,” for Open Carry

June 25, 2009 – 11:44 am

Upon learning that this Saturday’s “Open Carry Church Service” at New Bethel Church might fail to live up to its promise, my heart sank a little. According to a TIME article by former LEO Guru Cary Stemle, the church had yet to secure an insurance policy on the event, and would therefore be just a [...]

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Yay Memorial Day!1!!1

May 25, 2009 – 1:22 pm

So who’s even going to read this? Shut-ins? It’s after one o’clock on Memorial Day, so the chances are almost certain that you won’t be glaring at your infernal computer monitor in lieu of honoring our nation’s fallen soldiers by ingesting copious amounts of shotgunned PBRs (just like Uncle Sam intended).
Lest you lapse in appreciation [...]

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