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“Dearest Father…” #SecondCivilWarLetters Wins Twitter on American Independence Day

My Love,Dusk. We're in position overlooking MAGA camp. I see their sentries' red hats in the dim light of their tiki torches and it steels my nerves. At midnight, we strike. May our battlecry, "Happy Holidays," strike fear. Send Kale. – Matthew#secondcivilwarletters — D-Fo (@ThisIsDFo) July 4, 2018 It’s quite clear that the increased […]

¶ Posted 04 July 2018 § Humour § Internet § Meme § News § Politics § United States § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: economics, education, history, language

Music Monday – “Well they walked that day/The next/And the next/And the water it ran out one by one/Ay mijitos/They looked like dried leaves/Scattered in the sun”

“Migrants” – Sam Baker One of the best managers I’ve known (at least measured by how many quotes of theirs I regularly regurgitate) once said something to this effect: One important thing to remember – those rules, policies, guidelines we have? They’re all just words on paper. They’re arbitrary. And they can be changed completely […]

¶ Posted 18 June 2018 § MusicMonday § News § Politics § PopCulture § Travel § United States § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: economics, education, history, language, travel

Myth America

(h/t to JB on FB)

¶ Posted 09 May 2018 § Infographic § News § Politics § United States § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: economics, education, history

Is “A Horse Is Loose In A Hospital” The Best Donald Trump Analogy So Far?

Fast forward to near the end of this clip for the joke…

¶ Posted 08 May 2018 § News § Politics § PopCulture § United States § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: history, language

Music Monday – “Yeah, this is America/Guns in my area/I got the strap/I gotta carry ’em”

“This Is America” – Childish Gambino Some of the Things You May Have Missed MetaFilter weighs in Annotated lyrics This Is America: Donald Glover’s Video Is A Gripping Read

¶ Posted 07 May 2018 § MusicMonday § News § Politics § PopCulture § United States § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: economics, history, language, music

Michelle Wolf at White House Correspondent’s Dinner (and Some Thoughts on Transgressive Comedy)

A while back on AskReddit, there was a question about “What will be the “smoking” of the next generation which our kids judge us harshly for?” At the time, I thought that it would be “eating meat” that would be seen by future generations as something that, although enjoyable, had a big negative impact on […]

¶ Posted 01 May 2018 § Censorship § Humour § Meme § News § Politics § United States ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: history

Friday Fun Link – Reefer Madness (1936)

Happy 4:20! What has the world come to?

¶ Posted 20 April 2018 § FridayFunLink § Humour § Meme § PopCulture § United States § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: economics, education, health, history

How A Wardrobe Malfunction Led To The Creation of YouTube

I did not know that. Most remarkably, we have Nipplegate to thank for YouTube. Co-founder Jawed Karim told USA Today that he was inspired to create the video site in 2005 after not being able to find any footage of the incident online. It’s also too bad that Timberlake missed an opportunity during his performance […]

¶ Posted 04 February 2018 § Internet § MemoryLane § Sports § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: economics, history, music, television, youtube

Some Alternate Theories on What Happened in Hawaii

As a general rule, I’m not a conspiracy theorist as I often find the musings of people who are so inclined pretty illogical, far-fetched, and outlandish. But I also find them entertaining in a “Inspired by a True Story” kind of way. Plus, occasionally something happens that makes you wonder if you’re getting the full […]