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Four Digital Laws

I found this post on the Business Insider blog fascinating, mainly because I only knew about two of the four laws that Greg Satell of DigitalTonto lists (and I’m no mean nerd myself!). I am reposting part of it here … Weiterlesen

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Out to lunch

A sales rep, an administration clerk, and the manager are walking to lunch when they find an antique oil lamp. They rub it and a Genie comes out. The Genie says, “I’ll give each of you just one wish” “Me … Weiterlesen

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Welcome to the psychiatric hot line

If you are obsessive-compulsive, please press 1 repeatedly If you are co-dependent, please ask someone to press 2 If you are paranoid-delusional, we know who you are and what you want; just stay in the line so we can trace … Weiterlesen

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Book buring is back

Well, it took awhile, but the great old American tradition of book burning is back again. CVS and Walmart announced yesterday that they are pulling the latest edition of „Rolling Stone“ magazine from their bookshelves becaue of the editor’s choice … Weiterlesen

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Engineer Joke

An engineer was crossing a road one day, when a frog called out to him and said, „If you kiss me, I’ll turn into a beautiful princess.“ He bent over, picked up the frog and put it in his pocket. … Weiterlesen

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Here’s the proof: Republicans are job killers!

Wonder why I never saw a graph like this one before. It shows the rate of unemployment in the United States over the past 100 years. Out of curiosity, I mapped it to the terms of individual Presidents, and lo: … Weiterlesen

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Poetic thought for the day

To learn the age-old lesson day by day: It is not in the bright arrival planned, But in the dreams you dream along the way, You find the Golden Road to Samarkand. James Elroy Flecker

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Hiding Big Government in America

Americans believe Europeans live in a lush welfare state that they actually can’t afford, hence the Euro Crises, looming state bankruptcies in places like Greece, Portugal and Ireland, and a tendency to hang around in their social hammocks instead of … Weiterlesen

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Bye-bye, Mademoiselle Irma!

Alas, she is no more: the quintessential symbol of le Grande Nation, the icon of all that was good and graceful and charming and slightly precocious about France. I’m talking, of course, about the „mademoiselle“. According to a report in … Weiterlesen

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Florence on the Potomac

I never thought I would yearn wistfully for a Newt Gingrich resurgence, but watching the sudden rise of Rick Santatorium has triggered that urge. Heaven forbid that a religious nutcase like him should ever wield power in America. In fact, … Weiterlesen

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