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Q. Why Did Computers Become Popular? 0

A. Men are pigs.

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Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam, Glorious Spam 0

Yes, Virginia, there is a new Spam Museum.

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Great Moments in Proofreading 0

From today’s local rag:

Scan of wedding announcement stating that someone "severed as best man.:"

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Schools of Fools 0

One more time, is there a special stupid test you have to pass to be a school administrator?

Aside:

Honor Roll for second graders? Really?

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Great Moments in Adspeak 0

Free admission? Really?

Like they’re going to turn away customers?

Full Disclosure:

This is an excellent local merchant whom we patronize when it’s time for spring and fall planting. Nevertheless, I just couldn’t let the adspeak slip by.

Flyer for garden center advertising free admission to a "show" which is really a sale.

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Flack the Children 0

We have a polity assemblage that believes in magic demands the government provide services while simultaneously refusing to pay for them.

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Public Eructation 0

You can’t make this stuff up.

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The Year in Rebuke, V 0

The question of the year: Why does David Brooks still have a job?

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Progeny 0

Dear Karl Rove,

With any luck, my grandchildren will still be alive.

Yours truly,

Frank.

P. S.: Jesus, Mary, and Joseph.

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A Nation of Scaredy-Cats 0

Jesus, Mary, and Joseph.

I am ashamed of my country and of its having a major political party that panders to, stokes, and relies on bigotry.

I shall stop now, because all I have left is profanity.

Addendum, the Next Morning:

Crank Bear has the profanity so I don’t have to.

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It’s Called “La-La Land” for a Reason 2

You can’t make this stuff up.

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Facebook Frolics 0

Green-eyed frolics.

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Twits on Twitter 0

Legal twits.

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Is There a Shirker in the House? 2

A local Republican member of the Virginia House of Delegates has proposed an Indiegogo campaign to build roads.

It would be simpler if he and his fellow Republican legislators faced up to their responsibility to maintain the Commonwealth, but that’s not going to happen, now, is it?

Jesus.

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Heaven Forbid Kids Should Be Kids 0

Now they need recess consultants, apparently because third graders’ unstructured play is a bad thing.

One more time, is there some sort of intelligence test persons must fail so as to become school administrators?

(Remember what a consultant is: Anyone more than 50 miles from home toting a laptop bag.)

Via Thoreau.

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What’s Happening, Dude? 0

Stuff, Bro.

No human decency. None whatsoever.

Jesus.

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The Privatization Scam 0

The scammers have a new target.

Conversation is building in Washington on this question: Would the FAA be better able to handle its regulatory duties if the day-to-day operations of air traffic control were privatized?

The FAA, in a burst of sanity, is against the idea. Those who favor are it, natch, the folks who believe that there is no such thing as the public good.

Details of the con at the link.

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Headline of the Day 0

You have to see it or you’ll think I made it up.

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Facebook Frolics 0

Sexist pig frolics.

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The Deen of Southern Cooking 0

They never just go away, do they?

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