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Come on Baby Light My Ire: Jim Morrison's Ghost is Real!

By Larry Jankens on Mon, 10/12/2009 - 7:41pm | Humor & Satire

 

According to a new book entitled Ghosts Caught on Film 2, a photograph taken in front of Jim Morrison’s tomb in Paris shows the ghost of Jim Morrison; you can tell it’s him be cause the ghost looks sexy and brooding.   Predictably, paranormal websites are treating this photo as proof of the existence of ghosts. Equally predictably, this raises my ire.

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News from the hopefully future: Obama Un-Arrests Arrested Development Through Executive Order

By Larry Jankens on Thu, 10/08/2009 - 1:13am | Politics

Dateline: 2 Days from now

Obama made history yesterday when he signed an executive order forcing Fox Corp. to make a new season of the acclaimed and prematurely canceled television show Arrested Development. “We are at a crossroads,” said President Obama. “We can either go back to pushing the failed agendas of the past, such as canceling a hilarious television show, or we can move forward by doing the things necessary to make TV more watch-able.”

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Obama and Sex vs. Dalai Lama and The Wall Street Journal: The 8 Fold Path to Unenlightenment

By Larry Jankens on Mon, 10/05/2009 - 8:43pm | Politics

The Dalai Lama is in Washington this week trying to arrange a meeting with President Obama. It's Obama, however, who is acting like the Buddhist master, i.e. he’s doing nothing. The Wall Street Journal, has been quick to decry Obama’s Zen like response to the Lama. Saying that meetings with the Dali Lama are important because they “affirm the religious and democratic freedoms America stands for while setting a precedent for the rest of the world.”

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Video: Those At The Tea Party, Drink The Koolaid

By Larry Jankens on Tue, 09/15/2009 - 12:30pm |
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Let me encourage folks to be compassionate towards these people and not just respond in vitriolic idioms.  After watching all 9 minutes of this reporter completly upending these peoples' logic it will be hard.  For example:

"Thank God for Glenn Beck."  "He's such a logical thinker."  "Live by the Constitution, die by the Constitution."

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David Blaine, Magic or Tragic

By Larry Jankens on Tue, 09/08/2009 - 11:51am | Humor & Satire
David Blaine has wowed gullible audiences with his mix of magic and guile for years. Little do people know that when he first started out he would use his powers for evil. Below are 4 videos demonstrating David Blaine’s penchant for malevolence.

Video 1: Experience the awesome power David Blaine
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Why Healthcare Is NOT a Right

By Larry Jankens on Wed, 09/02/2009 - 11:50am | Politics

According to the internet Gods (Wikipedia) a constitutional right is defined as: a freedom granted by a government's constitution (on the national or sub-national level), and may not be legally denied.

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4 Surprising Facts About Baby Rearing

By Larry Jankens on Mon, 08/31/2009 - 10:52am | Humor & Satire

I was over at my buddy James’ place earlier today and while he and the wifey were tending to their newborn baby in the nursery I was reading over the maternal material provided by the hospital to the new parents. Most of the info in the parenting pamphlets was pretty boring (i.e. babies eat food, sleep and poop - not necessarily in that order or at different times), but I did find out some interesting facts about baby raising that I found both alarming and surprising. 

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