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Zombies Redux
Wed Dec 7, 2011 11:03 AM EST
By an odd coincidence, I got my first exposure to “The Walking Dead” just before the consumer feeding-frenzy of Black Friday, and that ironic juxtaposition made me start to wonder… What’s up with the obsession over zombies? It's gone from vid …
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The Tea Party Network: Proud To Be An Angry Mob
Sat Jul 30, 2011 7:22 PM EDT
I’ve been bothered (haunted really) for a while now by the nagging suspicion that TeaBagger rhetoric has always seemed eerily familiar. I was sure I’d heard that same kind of histrionic vituperation and unreasoning hostility before— a sort of politi …
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Why Aren't 'Corporate Citizens' Expected to Be Ethical, Moral, or Loyal to America?
Thu Apr 28, 2011 5:20 PM EDT
After reading uncountable numbers of seeds, columns and comments on Newsvine, I’m puzzled by what appears to be a total contradiction implicit in some folks’ beliefs' or ‘philosophy’. A lot of people seeding articles, writing columns or posting …
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XENOPHOBIA SUCKS: The Boogeyman is Everywhere
Thu Oct 7, 2010 2:13 PM EDT
xen·o·pho·bi·a [zen-uh-foh-bee-uh]–noun: An unreasonable fear or hatred of foreigners or strangers or of that which is foreign or strange.
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Have a Multi-cultural, Politically Correct, Personally Inoffensive Holiday of Your Choice
Sun Dec 20, 2009 10:26 AM EST
Holiday Greetings to You We wanted to send out some sort of holiday greeting to our friends and family, but it is so difficult in today's world to know exactly what to say without offending someone.
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Addicted to Rush...
Fri Dec 18, 2009 6:58 PM EST
Seem to be in 'bad poetry' mode the past couple of posts, and today I was apparently channeling Weird Al Yankovic for a while. Come on and sing along, kids...
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Twas the Treehuggers Christmas...
Tue Dec 15, 2009 7:18 PM EST
The other day I posted "Twas the Neocon Christmas", which jerked the right-wingers' chain. In the interest of fairness, and pissing everybody off this holiday season, here's the flip side--
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Twas the Neocon Christmas...
Mon Dec 14, 2009 1:48 PM EST
'Twas the night before Christmas, and through the compound Not a creature was stirring, for fear of live rounds; The shotguns were hung by the chimney with care, In hope that double-ought buckshot soon would be there; The children were nestled all smug in th …
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Inventing Sarah Palin: The Untold Story...
Sat Dec 5, 2009 1:44 PM EST
Someone recently said that if Sarah Palin didn't exist, the Neocons would have had to invent her...and it made me start to wonder... .A dark and stormy night in late August, 2008; a crash of thunder and a lurid flash of lightning flares over the RNC laboratory, where Doctor Fran …
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The Twelve Days of Palin
Sun Nov 22, 2009 9:19 AM EST
With Sarah Palin's new book tour allowing her to slither back onto the media scene, she has once again availed herself of another opportunity to wax eloquent (?) on her most favoritist topic-- Sarah Palin.
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Motorcycle Attack of The 50-Foot Zombie Crackhead Homo Atheist Socialist Fundamentalist Neocon Zionist Feminist Muslim CIA NWO TreeHugging Terrorist From Outer Space
Mon Nov 16, 2009 2:58 PM EST
The old-fashioned horror movies just don't cut it anymore. 'Back in the day', the Wolfman, Dracula, the Mummy and Frankenstein really spooked people because those were archetypes that resonated with the fears of a simpler time. But not any more...
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'Quality' Control on Newsvine & The Poll Poll
Wed Nov 11, 2009 10:29 PM EST
"I can't define pornography, but I know it when I see it." (SC Justice Potter Stewart)
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The Shredded Wheat Ranches of Ohio
Wed Mar 25, 2009 1:21 AM EDT
Driving through rural Ohio offers a variety of beautiful pastoral scenes: gently rolling hills, orchards in bloom in spring, tall stands of waving cornstalks...and the often seen but seldom noticed Shredded Wheat Ranches.
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Salute Our Flag! (The Reefer Chronicles, Episode 2.5)
Mon Feb 2, 2009 1:10 AM EST
( CLICK THIS LINK TO START THE SOUNDTRACK: )
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Obama Inaugural Yacht Celebration (The Reefer Chronicles, Episode 2)
Mon Jan 19, 2009 1:03 PM EST
["Testing..uh, Tasting...tasting 1-2-3, tasting... ...mmm,tasty--"(choke!hack!wheeze)]
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Heads UP!! Boarding Call!! (The Reefer Chronicles Episode 1)
Mon Jan 12, 2009 12:18 PM EST
About a week ago, PIK started a thread titled "Marijuana Yacht for Sale", about the auction of a 250 foot ocean-going yacht, to which some of you tasteless degenerates responded eagerly.
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The Psychopathology of Bush Worship
Thu Jan 8, 2009 11:17 AM EST
It just amazes me that some of the most self-proclaimed 'independent' people can be so servile about one man.
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Stoners Christmas Carols
Sun Dec 21, 2008 3:12 PM EST
With the holiday season approaching, I started thinking back to the days of my mis-spent youth (quite apart from the days of my mis-spent adult years). I remembered with nostalgia (and euphoric recall) the times spent caroling around Mt. Adams & the Univ.
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Night of the Living Lawsuit -- A NeoCon Horror Production
Fri Dec 12, 2008 2:03 AM EST
November 3, 2012: (LiberalMedia.com) On the eve of the election of 2012, attorneys Phillip Borg, Cort Snotnosky and Frederick Phibes filed yet another appeals brief with the U.S. Supreme Court, asserting that President Barack H.
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Republican Love Song
Wed Dec 3, 2008 7:16 PM EST
REPUBS IN LOVE [To the tune of "Lawyers In Love"] (you can hum along if you're not at work)
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Today I Chose to Become Homosexual
Sun Nov 16, 2008 4:46 PM EST
Dear Mom and Dad & Jesus:
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Lunatic Fringe, I Know You're Out There...
Thu Nov 6, 2008 11:17 PM EST
After the past several weeks of being assaulted (and insulted) by McCain/Palin attack ads, reading about the antics of Phil Berg, hearing the bass-ackward economic and political pronouncements of a skinhead Roto-Rooter operator and witnessing the vitriolic postings of racists, ex …
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The Times They ARE A-Changin'...
Tue Nov 4, 2008 9:43 PM EST
'Back in the day', when boomer liberals were sprouting up like weed and "My Generation" was a song about MY generation, we had hope for a different & better future. America in the early 1960s seemed poised on the brink of amazing change, change that would impact the entire world.
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Hey Jim,
I just sent you a friend request... We think alike on many things... but having said that... please take no offence... as an animal lover, and especially a lover of all things canine, I have to say your avatar gives me the creeps... ;-)
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