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The first time I saw this on TV, I almost fell out of my chair.  I assume this is targeted toward fat people.  If you’re too fat to wipe your own ass, there are some serious problems.  Do we really have that many people who are that fat?

Nov
6th
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Um, wow.

Oct
28th
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[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]

Vince and Larry have had enough of this shit.

Oct
27th
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Oct
22nd
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soupsoup:bringmethathorizon:

Sen. Al Franken: How many bankruptcies because of medical crises were there last year in Switzerland?

Hudson Institute Senior Fellow Diana Furchtgott-Roth: I don’t have that number in front of me but I can find out and get back to you.

Sen. Al Franken: It’s zero.

[silence]

Sen. Al Franken: Do you know how many medical bankruptcies there were last year in France?

Diana Furchtgott-Roth: I don’t have that number but I can get back to you if you’d like.

Sen. Al Franken: Yeah, the number is zero.

[silence]

Sen. Al Franken: Do you know how many were in Germany?

Diana Furchtgott-Roth: From the trend of your questions, I’m assuming the answer is zero, but I don’t know the precise amount.

Sen. Al Franken: Oh, you’re very good, very fast.

Oct
19th
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I don’t have Scott Gomez’s picture up at my house, staring at it while I eat dinner, working up enough psychotic energy to go slash him in the throat. That’s not the case.
Sep
29th
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I was visiting South Korea. There were always good relations and nice dialogue. But there was a Korean foreign minister who thought he was not on the record and was having some fun, and said that he loves it when Secretary Albright would come to Seoul because we had a nice relationship and we were about the same age, but he was like an old man and I was so vigorous and besides when he gave me a hug I had very firm breasts. All of a sudden there was this outcry over this and there were questions about whether would he have to resign for saying that. So they asked me what I thought, and I said, “Well, I’ve got to have somewhere to put those pins.
Sep
21st
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He also relayed how Boris Yeltsin’s late-night drinking during a visit to Washington in 1995 nearly created an international incident. The Russian president was staying at Blair House, the government guest quarters. Late at night, Clinton told Branch, Secret Service agents found Yeltsin clad only in his underwear, standing alone on Pennsylvania Avenue and trying to hail a cab. He wanted a pizza, he told them, his words slurring.

The next night, Yeltsin eluded security forces again when he climbed down back stairs to the Blair House basement. A building guard took Yeltsin for a drunken intruder until Russian and U.S. agents arrived on the scene and rescued him.

— USA Today article on secret interviews of Bill Clinton during his presidency (via USATODAY.com) (via skidder, soupsoup) (via caro)
Sep
11th
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soupsoup:
I’d like to think this is Joe Wilson getting his ass handed to him. (via jgh)
Can you imagine the heart attack Joe Wilson had when Rahm intercepted his call to Obama?

soupsoup:

I’d like to think this is Joe Wilson getting his ass handed to him. (via jgh)
Can you imagine the heart attack Joe Wilson had when Rahm intercepted his call to Obama?
Sep
4th
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The day-campers from Tremont United Methodist Church in the Bronx, ages 5 to 8, were exhausted. They had been going full speed with activities since 7:30 a.m., including a field trip to the New York Hall of Science in Queens.

Waiting on the platform at Times Square, the children plotted how to score a coveted rush-hour seat, planning who would sit on whose lap if the options were scarce. Hands were held tight, and two of the youngest girls rested their heads against each other’s for a moment.

As the train pulled into 42nd Street, Jesus Figueroa, a Tremont counselor for six summers, readied the campers to board: “Get your books ready.” An explosion of titles — “Jig and Mag,” “A Rose, a Bridge, and a Wild Black Horse,” “The Kid Who Invented the Popsicle” — were pulled from backpacks.

According to a church rule, Tremont campers must read whenever they win a seat on the subway. Each day, campers select a book from the church library or bring one from home. They practice reading in short increments — 20 minutes here and there — and keep reading journals to document their progress.

The Joy of Reading in the Subway, NY Times

Aug
22nd
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soupsoup:

No one is above suspicion.

soupsoup:

No one is above suspicion.
Aug
5th
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Oh, Teppo.  We will miss you.
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Bryn Mawr College, a small but esteemed school of witchcraft in the city’s western suburbs, is sometimes visible by day.

John Hodgman, The Areas of My Expertise

To be precise. And guys, it’s true. SO MANY people at that school wore capes. I had class with a girl who thought she was a dragon. She probably went to the Michigan Womyn’s Festival to participate in the workshop on “charming dragyn eggs”.

(via elsam)
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For the rowers among us.

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