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Thursday, April 28th, 2005

The Perfect Hermes Moment

Okay, for those who were confused by the last post, I have added the “Fiction” code to it: yes, I made it up. It’s hard being a satirist these days. (sigh)
Oh the up side, the god of satire came through brilliantly:
During Bush’s speech broadcast, he made the comment that technology was the answer to [...]

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Tuesday, April 26th, 2005

Evil Incarnate

Last week, I was digging around the book section of a “garage sale flea market” store that had recently opened up near my house. You know the kind of place I mean: they cruise garage sales and probably dumpsters for worthwhile stuff, dust it off, slap a price on it, and toss it in their [...]

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Tuesday, April 19th, 2005

Hypocrifish

In honor of the acts of mind-exploding hypocrisy on the part of our Republican leadership, we present a new emblem for Congressional vehicles:

A few of my favorite examples of the new motto, It’s OK If You Are Republican:
Sen. Bill Frist condemns Democratic senators for using the filibuster to block 10 of Bush’s 229 judicial nominees, [...]

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Thursday, April 14th, 2005

Abstinence Only Education

You know, I was completely against abstinence-only sex education. But now I see that I just didn’t understand it. The new site abstinenceonly.com* really opened my eyes. These people aren’t the repressed, fuddy-duddy, sexually ignorant types you’d expect abstinence educators to be. They’ve really changed my position on sex…er…education, that is.
Be sure to [...]

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Sunday, April 10th, 2005

Appropriate Use of the “F” Word

There’s a tradition in newsgroups and Internet chat rooms called Godwin’s law; it states that the as soon as someone invokes Hitler or the Nazis, the discussion is over. But this ignores one important fact: some people are actually fascists.
The American Heritage Online Dictionary defines fascism as follows:
A system of government marked by centralization of [...]

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