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Jesus. The Republicans don't have to do anything. Just give us a weak weekend post, and no snarkable news, and we'll tear each other to shreds.

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Not too many video games these days. Still looking for work.

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An earnest but slightly discombobulated effort. However, this work was killed by the shilling of the author's book at the end

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I didn't want am ereader but gave in this spring. I am a book geek, but I was able to get 2 books I wanted and hadn't found whilst looking in bookstores, and didn't want to order online, downloaded for an extremely reasonable price in a matter of seconds. Hooked. besides, it fits better in my purse than a copy of Foucault's Pendulum.

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You mean the people who ended up paying for the whole Occupy mess when the camps were moved out? It cost $60,000 (donated by landscapers) to replace the grass in St James Park in Toronto. That's after paying $10,000 overtime to workers just to clean up the mess that got left behind.

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As long as you haven't taken a helicopter and private car to your kid's softball game you're fine. Boojum is right.

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It is so great that it is done in such a deadpan manner- all those hilarious lines delivered with a perfectly straight face.

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"everyone's watching lolcats. "

Even so, they'll still be better informed than those folks who watch Fox.

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"We now spend roughly 15 years of our lives immersed in movies and video games..." If you include masturbation I think that number is kind of low.

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The fact is eventually the poor will have nothing to eat but the rich. And then it will get plenty of attention.

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Until you have the power to beat the cops you won't go anywhere. So, good luck. I gave up and joined the mobile work force and became an international hobo. The beans have more flavour.

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Showed that to my students last month. I was afraid that they wouldn't get the humour, but they loved it.

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