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Map Porn
So, this is about the coolest thing I ever saw. The Forest Park-Pasadena shuttle might be my favorite touch, being from Chicago and all. That is some commute, fortunately, you don’t have to wait long for the next bus.
Posted in Awesomeness
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Life is but a stage, and we are merely actors
So, over the week, Roger Ebert died, like a day after he said that he was retiring. This left a lot of people sad, including yours truly, because Ebert had a warm heart, and he was a pretty damn fine … Continue reading
Posted in Journalism, Silver Screen
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That’s Weird
Within a week of each other, the real-life woman who shot the handsome baseball player which became ‘The Natural’ and the real-life arsonist played by Donald Sutherland in ‘Backdraft’ both passed away, in or near Chicago. Which is kind of … Continue reading
Posted in Factoid, Silver Screen
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And Chops It Down With the Edge of Her Hand
Here’s some musical sorbet:
Posted in Awesomeness, Music
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We’re Through the Looking-Glass, People
Apparently, the Tea Party is boycotting Fox News, for being too liberal. How deluded is that, if they’re true to their word? Conservative thought has been cocooned in an echo chamber; they’ve been sniffing each other’s farts for so long, … Continue reading
Posted in Gibberish is the New Smart, Idiots Abound, Zombies
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Won’t you be my neighbor?
I just want to give a shout-out to my man Mr. Rogers, who would have been 85 yesterday. Like every other kid in America up until the age of whenever he was no longer on the air, I grew up … Continue reading
Posted in Awesomeness, Television
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This Shit Practically Writes Itself; or, Only 20 Units To Go!
So, right on time comes Thomas Friedman, ‘The Mustache of Understanding’ as he’s known in the liberal blogosphere, to back up the assertions of my last two posts. As one of the people that I specifically cited as complicit, as … Continue reading
Projection; you’re guilty of what I’ve been doing, you scoundrel!
To address the inevitable question regarding my previous post, ‘How could the media be in the bag for the GOP, when the press is liberally biased?’, the answer is projection, and blaming your opponent for what you yourself are doing. … Continue reading
The Single Greatest Mistake In American History? The Single Greatest Mistake In American History.
This week is the 10-year anniversary of the onset of the single greatest mistake in American history, the Iraq War. It lasted a couple years longer than WWII, and besides the number of lives lost for no reason other than … Continue reading
Posted in 100% Evil, Corpses, Gibberish is the New Smart, Global Disasters, History Lessons, Journalism, Politics, Preat the Mess, We've Always Been at War with Eastasia
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That Blackhawks Rundown That I Know Your Lives Were Left Empty Without After It Got Eaten The Other Day, Give Or Take A Few Days For Me To Forget What It Was Exactly That I Wrote
Hawks laid the beatdown on the Stars last night. When was the last time they scored 8 goals, I wonder? It was a total team win; the Hawks were faster, quicker to the puck, and had possession of the puck … Continue reading
Posted in Awesomeness, Beer, Blackhawks
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I’ll Give You My Unhappiness When You Can Pry It From My Cold, Dead Hands
So, everyone knows that Buzzfeed is this ridiculous site where they have lists of gifs of ‘the cutest puppies in America’, and ‘reasons why Beyonce is the super-coolest’ and whatever random bullshit their writers can come up with as clickbait. … Continue reading
Posted in Factoid, He's Got a Graph!, History Lessons, Idiots Abound, Oh My God, Robots, Zombies
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Everyone Should Buy a Gun, otherwise It’s on You When You Get Shot with a Gun; An Exercise In Sullivan-esque Bloggery
The Rude Pundit nailed it the other day, with his post on Zerlina Maxwell, and the ugliness surrounding her, after she dared go on television and say that it’s not on her as a woman have to buy a gun, … Continue reading
Posted in Douche-Baggery, Idiots Abound, Politics, WTF
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Living and learning, loving and lusting, these are the days of our lives
Today Checkpoint Charley learned not to use the ‘quick post’ function. I had a good, long post on the Blackhawks, and the streak, and how great it was, and how I’m glad that it’s over. It was pretty good, I … Continue reading
Posted in Idiots Abound
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Breaking Shit as Feature, Not Bug; or, How I Am So Very Tired of Republican Bullshit, and That’s Also Feature, Not Bug with an Extra Bonus Dystopian Cherry on Top
So, like every single minute of every single day, Republicans are out there breaking shit, or trying to break shit. You got an abortion restriction amendment here, and a voter restriction amendment there, all unconstitutional, and all from the party … Continue reading
Posted in 100% Evil, Douche-Baggery, Global Disasters, He's Got a Graph!, History Lessons, Idiots Abound, Journalism, No Shit Sherlock, Opiate of the Masses, Politics, Pork, Pranksterism
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Time to Make the Santorum
Until this jerkoff is publicly humiliated as the bearer of false witness (read: lying motherfucker), hypocrite, sanctimonious prig, home-schooled, socially retarded, lobbyist dick sucking piece of shit abortion that he is, tarred and feathered, ridden out of town on a … Continue reading
Posted in 100% Evil, Douche-Baggery, Idiots Abound, Politics, Zombies
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