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Politics

Sarah Palin Named Trig After His Disability

by RichMarch 7, 2010
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Sarah Palin’s latest ploy to give Fox ratings, as I’m sure you all know, is to play the “retard” card. I don’t mean that in a mean way, as I am personally a huge advocate for the mentally handicapped, I just mean it in an honest way, and honesty is something the Palin family practices [...]

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Frontline Tackles the Right to Assisted Suicide

by RichMarch 3, 2010

The latest episode of PBS’ Frontline, entitled “The Suicide Tourist,” tells the story of Craig Ewert, a 59-year-old man who was dying from ALS, more commonly known as Lou Gehrig’s disease. He and his wife decided to travel to Switzerland, one of the few countries where physician-assisted suicide is legal, and end his needless suffering.
The [...]

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Two Very Different Takes on Credit Card Reform

by RichFebruary 28, 2010

The more you try to reform the broken system, the more you realize that even the process the government uses to reform the system is broken as well. President Obama signed legislation back in May of last year that forces credit card companies to not only be much more transparent about how much they’re screwing [...]

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Captain America Vs. The Tea Party: A Geek’s Perspective

by RichFebruary 23, 2010
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If there are two things that I love discussing, it’s politics and comic books, so it seems that this story was just tailor-made for me to rant about.
About two weeks ago, some tea party leaders (How you can consider yourself a leader of something that isn’t really organized under one roof, I’m not sure, unless [...]

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Cheney Hospitalized with Chest Pains, Has Heart After All

by RichFebruary 22, 2010

Via CNN:
Former Vice President Dick Cheney was hospitalized Monday with chest pains, according to his office. Cheney, 69, is resting comfortably at George Washington University Hospital, and his doctors are evaluating the situation, his staff said in a statement.
From what it looks like, he seems to be doing well…

His 2-1B medical droid says that it [...]

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Muckmakers Proudly Presents the 2010 Muckmaker Awards!

by RichFebruary 19, 2010
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It’s the awards show you’ve all been waiting for…no, not the Oscars. That’s next month. No, not the MTV Movie Awards. Let’s be honest – even the Golden Globes are more watchable than that crap. It’s the 2010 Muckmaker Awards, where we dishonor the worst people, organizations, businesses, and ideologies of 2009 by awarding them [...]

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Joe Stack – EmbeddedArt.com

by IanFebruary 18, 2010

Adding this as a cache because the host will no doubt soon pull the page. (As a side note, I’m in no way trying to imply that this guy isn’t bat-fuck crazy.)
If you’re reading this, you’re no doubt asking yourself, “Why did this have to happen?” The simple truth is that it is [...]

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Bill O’Reilly Vs. Jon Stewart: The Entire Interview

by RichFebruary 8, 2010

I’m sure you’ve all seen this by now, but you may have only caught it in clips, so here’s the entire interview/debate for those who missed it…

Just when you think that you’ve heard and seen it all with these two, they come out with this. Now why can’t the rest of the mainstream media make [...]

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