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In the classroom, children are users and during recess, playas.

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<i>Witness II: <strike>Electric</strike> Horse-Drawn Boogaloo</i>

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John Oliver's take on this subject last night will no doubt end up in a great Clickbait article, and rightfully so. His comments about the Ferguson PD's camo alone were priceless.

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Exactly, Dok. Where did they think they were, Fort Apache? <a href="http://www.npr.org/2011/08/..." target="_blank">" rel="nofollow noopener" title="http://www.npr.org/2011/08/24/139916927/on-locati...">http://www.npr.org/2011/08/...

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<i>"Good evening and welcome to another edition of 'Storage Jars'. On tonight's programme Mikos Antoniarkis, the Greek rebel leader who seized power in Athens this morning, tells us what he keeps in storage jars. From strife-torn Bolivia, Ronald Rodgers reports on storage jars there. And closer to home, the first dramatic pictures of the mass jail-break near the storage jar factory in Maidenhead. All this and more in 'Storage Jars'!"</i>

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They're team colors only if you're white. Otherwise they're 'gang' colors.

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Dok, y u no snipy?

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OT: Article lays out the case why Rick Perry didn't actually break the law. <a href="http:\/\/nymag.com\/daily\/intelligencer\/2014\/08\/rick-perry-indictment-is-unbelievably-ridiculous.html" target="_blank">Jonathon Chait: This Indictment Of Rick Perry Is Unbelievably Ridiculous</a>

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Here I am out of the frigging country for only five weeks and only <i>today</i> do I find out that there have been stories since Wednesday datelined from my piddly little hometown about Amish girls getting abducted. Hey, I was just starting to deal with this Missouri nonsense.

Could you fuckers slow the late-August news cycle back down to where it's supposed to be, pretty please?

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Have the FEMA newscamps already been deployed, then?

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Who among us hasn't woken up in an ice-filled bathtub with stitches on one side or the other of our belly? At least they knock you out first, unlike those little gray people with the huge heads.

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Yeah, well we just returned from our cruise to the far-flung Isles of Langerhans. Not so sweet.

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Yeah. It was like a shot in the arm.

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“The NYT does all it can to stoke hatred of Israel"

Well, actually Israel does that; the NYT just reports it.

Consider me stoked.

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Wait, Ross flippin' Douthat is making a rational and somewhat sensible argument?

Funny, I woke up and could have sworn this was reality.

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