Is Newt Gingrich the Evil Stay Puff Marshmallow Man?

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Which pop culture icon best represents the combination of absurdity and cruelty that is Newt Gingrich – the Stay Puff Marshmallow Man, or Dr. No?

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Is Centrism Really the New Rage? Has Progressive Really Supplanted Liberal?

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I’ll be the first to acknowledge that there are some sincerely impassioned people out there who are talking about and otherwise promoting the idea of “centrism” as a rising groundswell. There are also a number of organizations funded by very …

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How Can Mitt Romney Restore Our Future?

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If Restore Our Future is going to restore our future, then how will it do that? Does the Super PAC have a cabal of wizards casting its own time altering magic spells?

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A Biological Brown Bag on Angels, Putti, Dragons and Fairies

University College London December 9 2010 Prof. Roger Wotton Seriousness descending into silliness.

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Vermin Supreme Challenging Barack Obama for President

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Controversy in this Democrat’s presidential campaign: He has been accused of flip flopping to a pro-zombie position. “Zombies are not just to run away from any more,” he says. In order to solve the energy crisis, he proposes hooking up zombies to giant turbines, so that as they stumble and shuffle, they can generate electrical power for American cities.

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Important Stuff for Monday Morning

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This morning, I sipped on my coffee as I searched around for a pad of post-it notes on which to scribble my to do list for the day. I found this note, scribbled on the top by my four year-old …

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Culture Bringing The Tower Down

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The most successful mythologizing of tower hatred came when Americans could ascribe this rage to an outsider, an enemy who could attack these architectural monuments in sympathy with the terrorist fantasies of our own culture. We could have our towers destroyed, and claim to mourn them, too.

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Masochist Christmas Trees With Cutting Issues

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You know what happens when someone grows up only wanting to be someone else’s dream. They end up with psychological issues. That’s what happened with this Christmas tree.

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The Liberated Consciousness of Occupy Ithaca

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To overcome the might of these armies, the Buddha merely touched the ground beneath him, the territory his source of witness to the insight of his vigil. Is that what the Occupy Ithaca protest has in mind with its low-key vigil, or are the Occupy Ithaca demonstrators waiting for King Ulysses to finally come back home, and rid the house of Ithaca of usurping squatters?

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You Are The Halloween Monster

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Why on earth do children dress up as ghoulish monsters on Halloween? Could it be out of the growing suspicion that they are the monsters they fear? “This business of life living on life, on death, had been in process …

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Krampus Launches Protest To Occupy The North Pole!

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Krampus is organizing an Occupy North Pole protest, saying, “The days in which Big Santa can just creep down people’s chimneys in the middle of the night without being noticed. The man in the red suit paid no taxes at all last year, and appears to have given substantial gifts, year after year, to each and every member of Congress, as well as the President.”

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Think the Occupation Movement is Bereft of Ideas and Goals? Read This.

It is true that the Occupy Wall Street demonstration took a frustratingly long time to articulate a set of demands. But the claim that the occupation movement has no direction is false. You don’t have to look far to find …

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Americans Elect Picks Core Questions for 2012 without Member Input

As Policy Director and then as Chief Operating Officer, Americans Elect corporate leader Elliot Ackerman has been saying for many months that the ordinary citizen members of Americans Elect, not Americans Elect corporate leadership, would be identifying the core questions …

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Dream of Autumn

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…I walked this way until I reached a stand of tall trees at the other side of the valley. Behind me, the grass was growing and green again, and the tribe came riding up on horseback just as I gave a final jerk, settling the leaves into two great piles…

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Occupy Wall Street Protest Asks For Needs And For A Hurdy Gurdy

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The Wall Street occupation protesters write that they are in need of bubbles and a hurdy gurdy. What’s a hurdy gurdy? It’s a hand-cranked portable musical instrument, sort of like an accordion, but with strings. Also, you can join in their revolution if you bring herbal supplements.

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Krampus Introduces Jobs Plan That Will Work

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Krampus proposed an Earned Havoc Tax Credit, which would provide $1,000 to every American family that enlists in the Smash And Burn Corps. In order for a family to be members in good standing of the SBC, they would have to destroy one substantial piece of property (such as a car, house, yacht, or storefront) every month.

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The Righteous Inefficiency of Occupy Wall Street

The live stream of the Wall Street occupation in NYC’s Zuccotti Park is a great glimpse into what happens when a protest is called without a purpose. At 8 pm, the group gathered into a “General Assembly” to decide a …

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Thoreau’s Fishing Philosophy

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A quote attributed to Henry David Thoreau suggests that when people fish, they are not really looking for fish. What does this mean?

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