Category: Humor
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The Onion perspective :-)
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Since John Ballard has gone silent after a burst of energy, it's time for some Random Thoughts & Idle Chatter and what better way is there than turning to cat antics? Here is a photo and a video of cats doing … well whatever it is that cats do. What appealed to me particularly about the photo is that the feline duo here…
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Didn't Mitt Romney know that if he ran for the highest office of the nation, his personal taxes were going to be of some interest to voters and the media? Of course he did. But for some reason Romney has decided that it may do less harm to his candidacy if he were to brazen it out by…
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Uma Thurman look-alike pacifies the hordes with deep breathing, sukhasana and gyan mudra: There have to be cleverer ways of saying “The EU is a force for peace in the world.” These guys really need new PR people.
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Not so different from fighting poison with poison. Here.
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Just stumbled upon this marvelously loopy interview with the head of a Swiss Federal Ethics Committee. Said committee issued guidelines in 2008 pertaining to the dignity of plants. In Switzerland it is now permissible to harm plants, say for agriculture, but not to cause them arbitrary harm. An example of the latter: consider someone who…
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The total amount of nerditude in the universe is fixed; it can only be converted from one form into another.
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Believe it or not there is a blog devoted entirely to this unusual subject. The comments accompanying the images may be on the juvenile side but the paintings are real. More than a decade ago, my sister and I suffered from paroxysms of hysterical laughter in front of a Biblical painting containing an incongruously mature looking Baby Jesus in Mary's…
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“I am empowered to give you a lawful order to move out of the pedestrian traffic flow. …I am asking you to move…15 yards to your right. If you do not, then I have the legal authority to order you to disperse. If you do not obey…you are subject to physical removal by my officers,…
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A brilliant idea : (courtesy Elatia Harris)
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The Mayor went on to say that, “…corporate America, as a whole, contributes greatly to our society and economy, but these leeches want all the blood they can get their hands on, even if they don’t need it.”
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“With his jowls, bushy eyebrows, deeply circled eyes and advancing years, he seemed every inch the homespun philosopher as he addressed mostly mundane subjects with varying degrees of befuddlement, vexation and sometimes even pleasure.” –Richard Severo and Peter Keepnews
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“Time, time, time is on my side, yes it is.” Recorded in 1964 by Mick Jagger in anticipation of the 60th anniversary of Einstein’s Special Relativity Theory the following year.
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