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A Little Racist

November 14, 2012 – 9:20 am

After the Obamaslide a GOP friend complained about the electoral college system, saying, “Romney won nearly half the states and still lose the election.” “Obama won 26 states and Mitt only had 24. That’s less than half and he lost the popular vote too. The math adds up the same way. My guy got more […]

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Beerability

August 17, 2012 – 12:27 pm

Supposedly after his 1989 defeat in the NYC mayoralty race by David Dinkins, Rudy Guiliani supposedly asked his wife in tears, “Do people really not like me?” The answer was yes, however four years later the ex-federal prosecutor conducted a campaign promising to clean up New York by having the police wage war against petty […]

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Red Hate Blue

August 15, 2012 – 11:59 am

After two months away in Thailand I’m rapidly re-introducing the chasm between Americans. The rift has many origins, however it’s an election year and the opposing camps are staking claims on the high and low grounds. The complete lack of humor is frightening. None of them can take a joke as witnessed in the following […]

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Rejoice Ryan Cometh

August 13, 2012 – 2:09 pm

GOP candidate Mitt Romney announced his running mate this weekend and arch-conservatives hailed the Massachusetts ex-governor’s choice of Wisconsin Congressman Paul Ryan. The media touted the decision as bold gambit in the bid for the White House, while pundits cautioned that the Vice-Presidential candidate’s unyielding commitment to fiscal austerity, privatization of Medicare, revisionist views on […]

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