AWESOME BRAIN POWERS: Archive

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Jan 28th

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“One day I will tell the last of my jokes and then I will have to fill my body up...”

– Why have I never heard of Preschool Gems before? That this exists is amazingly good. Another favorite: “Are ants afraid of creepy trees ‘cause they’re real live ghosts inside the darkness?” via The AV Club.

Jan 28th

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Jan 28th

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Jan 27th

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Jan 26th

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Jan 26th

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Dear Fox News: this is why good people hate you (at least, why I do). Not your obvious right-leaning bias—everyone is biased, whether they admit it or not—but your towering hypocrisy. Also, you’re the most-watched cable news channel in the country, and your horrid “info-tainment” programming sometimes even dominates broadcast network programs in primetime. Can you please, pretty...

Jan 25th

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Jan 25th

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Anderson Cooper corrects Michele Bachmann (R-Eallyfuckingstupid) on her unique(ly dumb) version of American history. I don’t know which possibility is worse: that she’s this uninformed (and stupid enough to publicly expose it) or that she knows she’s lying and is simply trying to re-write history.

Jan 25th

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Jan 25th

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Jan 21st

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Jan 20th

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Jan 19th

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Jan 19th

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Jan 19th

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Please to watch as Jon Stewart takes eight minutes to dissect Former Half-term Governor Sarah Palin’s completely-fabricated persecution complex.

Jan 19th

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Jan 19th

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Jan 17th

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Jan 16th

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Jan 15th

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Jan 15th

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Conversation With My Boss

BOSS: I just heard from corporate; they said that they found the tone of your comments in the self-evaluation contemptuous of management—their exact wording was "insubordinate". They seem to think that you find this job beneath you.
ME: Yes.
BOSS: Did you really call the corporate security policy "laughably wrongheaded and tedious" and describe our pay scale as "soul-crushing and dehumanizing"?
ME: Yes.
BOSS: I've submitted you for a raise.

Jan 14th

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Jan 13th

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Jan 12th

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Jan 12th

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I was wondering how The Daily Show would deal with the shootings in Tuscon. Turns out they did it in exactly the way I should’ve imagined: with class and humility.

Jan 11th

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Rep. Giffords’ brother-in-law (and current commander of the International Space Station), Scott Kelly, speaks from orbit: We’re better than this. We must do better.

Jan 11th

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“It is quite clear that liberals are trying to exploit this shooting for their...”

– One last thing. Tea Party Express leader Sal Russo: Decries the vaguely-defined “liberals” for exploiting the Tuscon shootings; Erroneously describes Loughner as a “radical leftist”; Suggests that the DailyKos (a private website not run by a politician) using of the word...

Jan 10th

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Jan 10th

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Jan 10th

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Jan 10th

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An appropriately sober and evenhanded special comment from Keith Olbermann. Regardless of political affiliation, violent rhetoric should have no place in American politics.

Jan 10th

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I’m not [afraid]. We’ve had lots of protesters in recent months…. The rhetoric is incredibly heated… Things have gotten really spun up… Sarah Palin […] has the crosshairs of a gun sight over our district and when people do that, they’ve gotta realize there are consequences to that action. Most of the country is in the middle, but we do have these polarized...

Jan 9th

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Jan 8th

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The Agonizing Last Words of Bill Zeller →

So I went on Gizmodo looking for reviews of HDTVs. I saw this article—the suicide note of recently-deceased programmer Bill Zeller—and…I don’t know. It’s some really dark, bleak stuff. Linking it here because…I don’t know, exactly. This is going to stick with me for a long time, and I figure I should document it. Or something.

Jan 6th

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“In these times, for an unelected bureaucracy with dubious juristiction and...”

– Uninformed-at-best, villainous-at-worst Representative Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) on why she’s once again introducing anti-net neutrality legislation. And Ms. Blackburn knows from “missplaced” motives, as three of her five all-time largest donors are AT&T, Verizon, and the...

Jan 6th

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“Friendship to me is, if my friends need my little finger to live, I’m going to...”

– I’m mining the gold that is the AV Club interview with Udo Kier yet again. It’s just so fucking good.

Jan 6th

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