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Hope Obama works better than wkyc.com did election night. We’re still dead in the water.

Metallica: Bargains, imprisoning me … all that I see, absolute savings (the first comment made me choke with laughter)
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The Republicans will be regarded from now on as “the party that wrecked America.” I like that meme.
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The following news flash crossed my desk today:
“BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) — Military revokes Thai constitution after staging coup.”
It seemed straight out of Civilization … a pithy, one line statement that life would not be the same in Thailand.
Sigh. And we just had Thai food Monday night. Spicy food, spicy government.
Being an ugly American, [...]

NASA decided to go old-school, New Wave of Grecian Heavy Metal by naming their new spacecraft Orion after the instrumental on Metallica’s epic Master of Puppets.
Now, air-guitar along with me: Chunk, chuck, chunk-chunk Chunk. Chunk, Chunk Chunk Chunk. Chunk, chunk-chunk Chunk. Chunk.
Does this new name mark the return of the balls-to-the-wall, thrash metal NASA [...]

git ‘r done: Larry the Cable Guy is an act! Shocking!

Learn more about Larry, er, Dan Whitney
Larry is dumb, but I laugh whenever he sings. That isn’t saying a lot, as I laugh at most use of song + humor.

From datawhat and dead frog

Along the same lines, I’ve always wondered what we’d do if a Star Destroyer showed up in low Earth orbit.
Oh, and the Imperial fleet would kick Picard ass.

My little girl died today after a long,10-month battle with anemia.
I got to hold her as our doctor delivered the quick, merciful death blow. It was time, but am I ever going to miss my first and favorite pet.
If there is any pragmatic message for any random pet lover out there, it’s this: consider pet [...]

Growing up in the 80s an Indians fan meant bellowing “Juuuullliooooo” every time the now ageless wonder appeared at the plate in old Municipal Stadium.
USAToday.com’s Mike Lopresti has a blast enumerating the many ways in which Julio Franco, 47, is OLD:
As of Monday, 60 players on active major league rosters had not been born the [...]