Posts tagged “politics”

Elmo is the only non-human or puppet ever to testify before the U.S. Congress. At the request and with the assistance of Rep. Duke Cunningham, he testified before the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services and Education in April 2002, urging support for increased funding in music education.

Literary Tattoos
The Periodic Table Of Super-Powers
Dale Peterson is not screwing around. (He’s got my vote.)
If you like The Big Picture, you’ll love The Big Caption.
Apple, Inc. v. Apple Corps: Why The Beatles Are Not in the iTunes Store
Never Punt with Tebow: A Mathematical Analysis of 4th Down
The fastest man in college football is University of Florida running back Jeff Demps, who helped the Gators win the SEC outdoor track championships by running the 100m dash in 10.06 seconds. (That’s just a half-second “slower” than world record holder Usain Bolt.)

2024-07-25: Broken links in this post have been removed and/or updated.

Okay, this is just awesome. Ron Howard directs Chevy Chase (as Gerald Ford), Dana Carvey (as George H. Bush), Darrell Hammond (as Bill Clinton), Will Ferrell (as George W. Bush), Dan Akroyd (as Jimmy Carter), and Jim Carrey (as Ronald Reagan) in a presidential reunion visit to Fred Armisen (as Barack Obama) and Maya Rudolph (as Michelle Obama) in the White House to try to convince the current President to push the Consumer Protection Act through Congress.

McCain? Obama? Who Cares?

Lifehacker has a great list of tips to help maximize your influence in the election. The most important one is the last one, and it’s the one I’ve been trying to explain to people for months. McCain is not going to do anything about speeding on my street and Obama is not going to cut

Palin v. Biden

I simply cannot have been the only one who watched the vice-presidential debate tonight and thought that Palin’s answers were eerily similar to this famous speech. I mean, really? Really? Nucular? Poliferation? Infastructure? Here’s a random quote I grabbed from the transcript: John McCain, in referring to the fundamental of our economy being strong, he

American Idiot

The truth hurts

Hockey Moms and Pit Bulls

You can’t plan an ad lib.

Yahoo! Sports Critical of IOC Pres.

Dan Wetzel of Yahoo! Sports criticizes IOC President Rogge: Jacques Rogge is so bought, so compromised, the president of the IOC doesnâ€™t have the courage to criticize China for telling a decade of lies to land itself these Olympic Games. All the promises made to get these Games — on Tibet, Darfur, pollution, worker safety,

Natural American Spirit Cigarettes

In addition to one of the standard Surgeon General’s Warnings, packs of Natural American Spirit cigarettes are labeled: Made with 100% additive-free, whole leaf, natural tobacco. No reconstituted sheet tobacco. No processed stems. Up to 25% more tobacco than other king size cigarettes. All of that would, in some convoluted way, probably lead a smoker

A Metaphor for Dick Cheney

What is an appropriate metaphor for Dick Cheney? Colbert: Dick Cheney is a lioness protecting America’s cubs from the laughing hyenas of the left while the poachers of internationalism sharpen their guns … knives. Penn: Dick Cheney is the spinster left at the altar looking out her dirty window at the happy lives of the

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Hemingway

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