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2009-05-10 12:00 am
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2009-05-09 11:06 pm
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YOUR ELECTIONARY GUIDER FOR CALIFORNIA

Approved by the League of Women Honkers, the Tofu Hut Corporation, and Yoyodyne LLC, here is the only guide you'll need to California's propositions. Courtesy [livejournal.com profile] kafkateer I present: Election FEVER!
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2009-05-07 11:26 pm
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That which is dead but lives thirsts for the blood of the fifth period Bio teacher

The Teacher of the Year awards were handed out today, and the newspaper had a series of heartwarming photos of teachers being awarded, congratulated, etc. In this picture a teacher has been awarded, and is being hugged. But something is terribly wrong.

aaaiiiii
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2009-05-07 12:01 am
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2009-05-04 12:05 am
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2009-05-03 03:15 pm
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2009-05-03 12:15 am
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The Masque of the Wing Nut

Could everyone please tone down the crazy a little bit with regard to the influenza?

Strains of influenza virus like this show up. It's happened before and will happen again. This one might go big and cause a lot of suffering, and probably won't. The WHO and national agencies are doing a good job of coordinating and sharing information. All you can actually do right now is hope things go well and not cough on each other, and wash your hands regularly. That's it. Really.

Conspiracies, fakes, government-created viruses, the national politics of your country and others, the bad behavior of pharmaceutical companies, and the current oncoming worldwide financial depression are possible but unlikely sources of the problem. None of these exciting things are necessary to explain an influenza outbreak.

Conspiracies do exist, and many are successful. They are boring, and unsurprisingly they don't show up on CNN. Fat white men in suits conspire to start wars, fix prices, steal natural resources, poison people, and crush the rights of individuals. They get away with it most of the time. Keep your eye on those bastards.

These guys don't need to create an influenza pandemic, or fake 9/11's plane crashes, or kill Princess Diana, or hide the UFOs. Those are things that happen in movies where our heroes run in slow-mo from an explosion at the end.

In short, it's very unlikely that the swine flu is engineered by some shadowy cabal. It's much more likely that it's an outbreak of a nasty flu strain.

But almost everything about your daily life is in some way made worse by those fat white men in suits cutting deals with your birthright. Maybe they deserve more of your attention.
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2009-05-02 12:01 am
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2009-04-30 02:30 am
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late night thoughts on annoyingly cyclic U.S. politics

Obama is the liberals' Reagan.

As someone who had to put up with it from the other side, I have this to say to the currently freaked out right wing and/or actual conservatives:

1. I feel your pain.

2. Neener, neener.

3. It's all part of life's rich pageant.
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2009-04-28 07:36 pm
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jonathan livingston asshole

Seagulls, as you know, never falter, never stall. To stall in the 
air is for them disgrace and it is dishonour. 
 But Jonathan Livingston Seagull, unashamed, stretching his 
wings again in that trembling hard curve - slowing, slowing, 
and stalling once more - was no ordinary bird.
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2009-04-27 09:24 pm
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CAUSE OF SWINE FLUE DISCROVERED

CANADIAN CARTOON PROPAGANDA ISOLATED THE PROBLEM IN 1981 WHAT IS OUR DIFFICULTY HERE (PIGBIRD)

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2009-04-26 10:22 pm
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for rent


for rent, originally uploaded by mannydiller.

Manny Diller again. He's so good it sort of hurts.

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2009-04-25 12:01 am
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