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I can’t improve on Colbert…

Comedian Stephen Colbert, mocking a report that one ethanol-fueled flight from London to New York would require a year’s worth of corn from thirty soccer fields, remarked “You get to fly across the Atlantic AND destroy soccer at the same … Continue reading

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Moonvertising: Brilliant Idea or Gullible Consumers?

Man, we’re gullible. I don’t mean you, of course. I mean the collective “we”, as in the “we” who are still forwarding email messages that Bill Gates is running an experiment to give away cash. While it hasn’t happened yet, … Continue reading

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"Write the Caption" Contest

I received this photo today from a friend who offered the following comment: “Can you say ’800lb gorilla on my back’?” While that’s certainly apropos, my first thought was: “I can’t see the Oval Office from here!” It also occurred … Continue reading

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Seven Years Later…

It’s seven years later, at a small grade school in Washington, DC. All the kids gather for school pictures, none of them aware of the tie that binds them, and their mothers, to each other and a man named Bill … Continue reading

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"Not My Job" Award Winner

I’m told this picture was taken in Marshall, IL, but truly, regardless of where it was taken, someone *really* needs to be fired.

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