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i. At one job I spend all day listening to how gay people are teh suck. At the other job I hear how gross it is to be Jewish, Mexican, and/or Negro. But we ain’t no bigots. We are the Eggman.
ii. Looking at two potential jobs. Both would pay [...]

It sucks when your grandkid is in the middle of a nasty custody battle. You want the best for your offspring’s offspring, and you probably believe your kid’s a better parent than the loser s/he’s bickering with over time and responsibility. Unfortunately, shooting that loser’s parents in a parking lot dispute pretty much [...]

We should get together more often.
Conveniently, oil and gas prices have fallen dramatically and will almost certainly remain low through November. Would anyone like to guess what they’ll do after the midterm elections? That’s right, they’ll take off in a full sprint for your wallet. Bush/Republican popularity will dry up again — at [...]

Fuck it. If the feds won’t act, maybe a bunch of other states will follow California’s lead (h/t Raw Story):
General Motors Corp., Ford Motor Co. and four other automakers were sued by California for making vehicles that contribute to global warming, causing pollution and erosion that costs the state millions of dollars.
The lawsuit filed [...]

“Billy, can you come downstairs for a minute? Your father and I would like to talk to you.”
Billy popped the pause button on his controller and flicked a glance at the oversized digits hanging above his TV. “Gotta head over to Derrick’s in a few. Can it wait till later?” The [...]

44-49% of people scare me:
President George W. Bush’s approval rating has rebounded to 44 percent, the highest level in a year, in the latest USA TODAY/Gallup Poll, the newspaper reported on Tuesday.
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For the first time since December 2005, a majority of people polled did not say the war in Iraq was a mistake. The respondents [...]

Week 2 is always one of my favorite weeks of the NFL season. It reshapes the way we view some of the so-called surprises and confirms some of the raised suspicions from week 1. This season, it seems we received an even stronger dose of clarification/confirmation than usual. The ACL Festival took up [...]

I was rather surprised to see J Train in the comments at Pandagon whip this out
Shouldn’t this kind of thing put a doctor’s medical license in jeopardy?
I can’t imagine why. In general, unless a patient’s life or health is in immediate danger (and pregnancy doesn’t count), he’s under no obligation to write any prescription for [...]

What if this were true?
Within the next decade or two, Lovelock forecasts, Gaia will hike her thermostat by at least 10 degrees. Earth, he predicts, will be hotter than at any time since the Eocene Age 55 million years ago, when crocodiles swam in the Arctic Ocean.
“There’s no realization of how quickly and irreversibly the [...]

We all already know that Diebold voting machines are at best absolute crap and at worst specifically designed to maximize ease of election fraud. Yet, it just keeps getting worse.

On Wednesday we did a live demo for our Princeton Computer Science colleagues of the vote-stealing software described in our paper and video. Afterward, Chris [...]

When I first saw MTV’s the Real World I thought, “God, this sucks.” I know, who could have called it? Well, 17 seasons have vindicated me yet the series still seems to be going strong (seventeen fucking seasons? Could I be that old already?)
Well god forbid something as artificial and predictable as [...]

A kid(? his about page is unclear on his age, but he certianly hasn’t finished school yet) gets a myspace phishing email and takes the opportunity to analyse 20,000 myspace passwords.

I still get those letters from Nigeria saying they need my help transferring millions of dollars out of the country. If nobody was falling for [...]