Show your love for CCTV

You don’t need to wait for rain to open up this beauty.  Take it everywhere and show the government just how much you love being under surveillance from closed circuit cameras.

Link goes to site with NSFW language.

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Financial crisis explained

Are you as confused as I? 
I suck at economics and accounting.  I have my college transcript as proof.  So it’s no surprise that as I watch and read the news about the financial crisis and the proposed government bailout my attempts to comprehend what it’s all about result in a major FAIL.
I understand all [...]

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"Annoy Sarah Palin. For goodness sake, read."

 
This week (September 27 – October 4) is Banned Books Week, in which we celebrate the freedom to read. 
The American Library Association states,
Banned Books Week celebrates the freedom to choose or the freedom to express one’s opinion even if that opinion might be considered unorthodox or unpopular and stresses the importance of ensuring [...]

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DU Week in review, September 26

Congress began working on a controversial $700 billion (with a “b”) Wall Street bailout to save ailing financial institutions.  One president of a prominent investment firm said if something isn’t done soon he may have to fire one of his gardeners.
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Democratic Vice Presidential Candidate Senator Joe Biden made a campaign stop at a [...]

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The secret of life

 
Curly: Do you know what the secret of life is?[holds up one finger] This.Mitch: Your finger?Curly: One thing. Just one thing. You stick to that and the rest don’t mean shit.Mitch: But, what is the “one thing?” Curly: That’s what you have to find out.

Thus goes a brief scene between Jack Palance and Billy Crystal [...]

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Another reason to love Roger Ebert

From Ebert’s latest “Answer Man” column on  his website:
Q. Yo dude, u missed out on “Disaster Movie,” a hardcore laugh-ur-@zz-off movie! Y U not review this movie!? It was funny as #ell! Prolly the funniest movie of the summer! U never review these, wat up wit dat? S.J. Stanczak, Chicago
A. Hey, bro, I wuz [...]

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Election 2008. A look back.

I can’t claim to be the first.  My friend Spike Nesmith can be credited for that.  But allow me to be the first to say, “Spike is right — the Republicans have won the election.”
It’s over.  Finished.  You can put lipstick on a singing fat lady but she’s still singing.  Or something.
If, after all that [...]

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Anachrophobia

I was in line at the grocery store the other day watching and waiting patiently as the clerk scanned the items for the guy ahead of me.  After the scanning was complete the customer pulls out a checkbook and starts writing.  WTF?  Who writes checks anymore?  Seriously.  Surely my bank isn’t the only one [...]

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Chrome needs some polish

As I’ve mentioned before, I’m a slave to all things Google.  Gmail is my main email application.  I use Google Calendar to schedule my life, and Google Documents to store papers and info that I may need when I’m out and about.
So naturally when Google released a beta version of their new web browser, Chrome, [...]

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Priceless

So I get this chick in the back seat, she’s seventeen years old, ahigh school senior like me, but she’s the governor’s daughter forchrissake, and I knock her up.
And tonight….ya ready?….ten thousand Americans with “familyvalues” are gonna stand and cheer me when I’m introduced at theRepublican convention, with the old man’s arm around my shoulder.Is [...]

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