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John Perich plays us out of 2011 – to our DOOM Bwa ha ha ha ha!!!!!

Or not.
Did the researchers go out to test both fathers and mothers, for instance, to find out what the impact of both fathers and mothers might be on a child’s obesity?
Can you guess the answer to that one? Yup, they only tested mothers, not fathers.
More.

By Thoreau
The Finest News Source just won’t stop pointing out that they understand the Iraq War on a much deeper level than you:
1) Iraq declares partial law
2) Iraq war memorial planners forced to revise length again.  Best part: “Once work is completed on the ongoing Iraq War Memorial, the ABMC will reportedly begin planning [...]

By Thoreau
Mother Jones points out that libertarians and rappers have a lot in common.

By Thoreau
You may recall my post about the attempt to use cupcake frosting as a delivery system for transporting gels onto planes.  Would you believe that the inventors of this “cupcake in a jar” have opened a bakery in Istanbul?  That’s right, a city full of Muslims, the capitol of in a country with an [...]

By Thoreau
The most obvious lesson of Ron Paul and his newsletters is, of course, that whatever you put your name to can come back to haunt you.  The second most obvious lesson is from Lew Rockwell:  If you write under a pseudonym, what you write will come back to haunt the person whose name you [...]

Jenna Moran’s other new ebook is Invasion, with artist Elizabeth Sherry. I had no pre-publication role in Invasion, so I am free to review it. Short version: It’s super cool. Longer version: my Amazon review.

By Thoreau
To celebrate the withdrawal of US forces (aside from a large mercenary army and an undisclosed number of covert operatives) from Iraq, The Onion decided to give us a retrospective on Iraq War coverage.  Some highlights:
1) This pretty much summarizes the sophistication of the the pre-war debate in 2002-2003. Although, to be honest, most [...]

By Thoreau
We wuz robbed!  You may recall that in May I was nominated for a Moore Award (at the 1:43am update in this mega-post), after writing:
So many awful things have happened in the battles to find this man, so many awful things have been “justified” in the name of responding to his attacks, [...]

My friend Jenna Moran released two ebooks over the space of a few days last week. The first is the novel, An Unclean Legacy, a revised and reworked “Legend” from her macro-fiction site, Hitherby Dragons.
I can’t review the book exactly. Not because Jenna’s my friend; if we couldn’t review our friends’ books literary history would [...]