October 2011
3 posts
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September 2011
2 posts
August 2011
2 posts
July 2011
1 post
May 2011
2 posts
Still glad he's President.
“I have known few greater honors than the opportunity to address the Mother of Parliaments at Westminster Hall. I am told that the last three speakers here have been the Pope, Her Majesty the Queen, and Nelson Mandela — which is either a very high bar or the beginning of a very funny joke.”
- Obama
April 2011
2 posts
February 2011
2 posts
WatchNice find down at Rainy Day Records: Just got this White Stripes BBC session, on a sweet see-through cherry red LP.
December 2010
1 post
WatchHere’s how to keep it lively while on patrol in Iraq.
Ha ha ha. It’s funny because it’s only a dummy grenade.
November 2010
1 post
October 2010
3 posts
September 2010
1 post
August 2010
2 posts
Will Ferrell on Chewbacca-Mask Weddings
“When we saw Star Wars as kids, everyone in the neighborhood had the same reaction: Wow, what a great movie! And then: Chewbacca’s the best! I’m pretty sure that in the future, people will get married looking like Chewbacca. I’m heartbroken that this is not already standard practice for a bride and groom. Sure, it’s caught on in places like Portland and the isle of Crete, but it’s not the...
July 2010
1 post
June 2010
2 posts
May 2010
4 posts
April 2010
4 posts
Seeing Ken Griffey Jr. In Backwards Hat Now Just... →
I believe I’m the one satirized in this Onion story.
March 2010
6 posts
It's listed. →
February 2010
1 post
WatchSo glad to see Pee-Wee again.
January 2010
3 posts
The view from elsewhere
Outside the United States, the Great Recession wasn’t nearly as great. Unlike prior economic crises, when governments fell and mobs assaulted the centers of power, there has been little political upheaval and almost no violence. In fact, large swaths of the world – China most notably, but followed closely by Brazil and India – emerged with their relative position enhanced as a result of the...
“@House All Staff
The system outage this morning was the result of a hardware malfunction on the Storage Area Network. This system provides disk services to a majority of legislative servers. All major components of this system are redundant in order to prevent this type of outage, but the redundant components didn’t work correctly this morning.
The vendor is currently assessing the...
December 2009
3 posts
I guess the War on Drugs is good for something.
Drug money saved banks in global crisis, claims UN advisor
Drugs and crime chief says $352bn in criminal proceeds was effectively laundered by financial institutions
Drugs money worth billions of dollars kept the financial system afloat at the height of the global crisis, the United Nations’ drugs and crime tsar has told the Observer.
Antonio Maria Costa, head of the UN Office on...
The geniuses at Restoration Hardware mispelled...
That might be how heavy metal singers spell it, but not how you spell it when writing about car parts.
November 2009
3 posts
October 2009
4 posts
