Extremely Lame

Democratic National Committee chairman, Howard Dean, appears that he may be backtracking on the decision to disallow Florida and Michigan’s delegates from having a seat at the Democratic National Convention in Colorado this August.
While we don’t have the huge list of Democratic candidates running for President that we did in 1972, we do have a [...]

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Election time? Check. Legislators a bit down in the polls? Check. It’s time for another installment of “Let’s blame pop culture for all of society’s ills and cash some quick percentage points!”
Today’s installment is courtesy of the state of Massachusetts. No, not the Dropkick Murphys song, the actual state. We have HB 1423 in the [...]

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Why is it that English manga (Japanese style comic books) are so expensive? A 495¥ manga will inflate to ten bucks in the United States. I realize that there are prices to licensing, translating, and things like that, but there’s no way that would double the price. Look at other Japanese products that have to [...]

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I was listening to This American Life earlier today, and the show I was listening to was called “The Audacity of Government” and focused on this administration’s behaviors with regard to getting the decisions they want at any cost. I am sure that certain people on the right will get excited and sound like howler [...]

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Yesterday I went to Circuit City to pick up a couple of DVDs I’d misplaced and hopefully an HDMI cable to connect my laptop to my EXTRA BIG ASS TV. The DVDs were no trouble. The cable, on the other hand? What a ripoff. The cheapest cables they had were over fifty bucks, and those [...]

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