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Partysaurus Rex
This video has been going around the blogs all week. Here’s my link so I don’t lose it: Partysaurus Rex on Disney Video As usual, the Pixar gang packs a lot of information into 6 minutes. You could talk to your kids for hours about the lessons from this cartoon. Read more
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ObamaPhone
Yeahey, sister! Way to represent. After looking at my phone bill, I think maybe I paid for that phone of hers. Read more
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Labor Day is also National Empty Chair Day
So tap into your inner Clint Eastwood and put one of these out in your front yard. Update (3 September). Leave Barack alone! Read more
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Egg yolks are bad for you. Oh, wait. No they’re not…
First some guy in a rush to publish a paper decides egg yolks are almost as bad for you as smoking, then some other guy reads the paper and declares it hogwash. It’s a bunch of Canucks, so you gotta make allowances. Tips from Instapundit and BlissTree. Update (18 August). BlissTree reminds us that eggs Read more
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When the roof leaks…
…install a drain in the floor (I actually saw this in a gym locker room). Read more
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OK, no more shoeless interludes with the TSA for me…
…not if I can get through airport security with a JetSki! Seriously, a guy swims three miles in the dark to get help, and the Authorities arrest him? This needs to go in the dictionary as the third or fourth definition of the word “dick.” Read more
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Does this mean we need to start worrying about Peak Dust?
Two amazing facts: The vast amount of mineral nutrients required to sustain the Amazon rainforest come from dust storms in the African Sahara, and We’ve known about this for six years (for some small values of we). And I really dig the estimate of the amount of dust that makes it across the Atlantic to Read more
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OK, this is slick
CBS News describes the Romney campaign’s painstaking efforts to keep the selection of Vice President candidate Paul Ryan’s selection under wraps. This bodes well for a Romney Administration that won’t be as leaky as the current one. Read more
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Put August 1st on your calendar. Forever.
Every year, on August 1st, the people of Warsaw stop for a moment of silence. Get the whole story. This fellow’s recent speech reminds us why we should care. Tip from American Digest. Read more
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The Man Who Defected to North Korea
Anyone who believes in something for nothing is already half on the road to being swindled. Fortunately, millions who have defected to the People’s Democratic Republic of California are finding it easier to escape. Update (22 July). And then there’s this poor mook who’s looking for an Islamic paradise. Tip from Via Meadia. Read more
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