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The Economic Argument: via imgs.xkcd.com

What’s great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest. You can be watching TV and see Coca-Cola, and you know that the President drinks Coke, Liz Taylor drinks Coke, and just think, you can drink Coke, too. A Coke is a Coke and no amount of money can get you a better Coke than the one the bum on the corner is drinking. All the Cokes are the same and all the Cokes are good. Liz Taylor knows it, the President knows it, the bum knows it, and you know it.

— Andy Warhol on Coca-Cola

Medicare loses seven times as much money in fraud every year than the combined profits of the 14 health insurance companies on the Fortune 500.

— Medicare Fraud Puts Insurance Profits in Perspective - By Mark Hemingway - Critical Condition - National Review Online

Boomerang kids: 85% of college graduates must move back home - Oct. 14, 2010

AIRPLANE, a melodrama! It’s just not the same without the jokes…

Generally, you wouldn’t want to stand that close to a volcano. Most incredible volcano footage ever (via geoffmackley)

DaveDrawsComics: The Blog!: Seinfeld SuperHeroes

Irish Hand Dancing

Acclaimed Irish Dancers Suzanne Cleary & Peter Harding blow the brains out of the Irish Dance genre in this multi-media extravaganza. Their style liberates Irish Dance from its velvet-clad, tin-whistle-blowing, diddly-idleness and drags it kicking and screaming into the 21st Century.

We No Speak Americano ft. Cleary & Harding (via upandoverit)

Ninjabread Men

Souped Up: How to Make Instant Ramen into a Gourmet Meal [Hack]

Even though some people say we are living in a “knowledge economy,” we are living in a political atmosphere in which ignorance has more power than ever. Washington politicians who have never run any business are telling all kinds of businesses - from automobile companies and banks to hospitals and insurance companies - how they have to run their businesses. This is the golden age of ignorance in power.

— RealClearPolitics - Random Thoughts on the Passing Scene Thomas Sowell

This is our Pledge to America. We pledge to honor the Constitution as constructed by its framers and honor the original intent of those precepts that have been consistently ignored – particularly the Tenth Amendment, which grants that all powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people. We pledge to advance policies that promote greater liberty, wider opportunity, a robust defense, and national economic prosperity. We pledge to honor families, traditional marriage, life, and the private and faith-based organizations that form the core of our American values. We pledge to make government more transparent in its actions, careful in its stewardship, and honest in its dealings. We pledge to uphold the purpose and promise of a better America, knowing that to whom much is given, much is expected and that the blessings of our liberty buoy the hopes of mankind. We make this pledge bearing true faith and allegiance to the people we represent, and we invite fellow citizens and patriots to join us in forming a new governing agenda for America.

— A Pledge to America - The Fall 2010 GOP Agenda - GOP.gov

America is an idea – an idea that free people can govern themselves, that government’s powers are derived from the consent of the governed, that each of us is endowed by their Creator with the unalienable rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. America is the belief that any man or woman can – given economic, political, and religious liberty – advance themselves, their families, and the common good.

— A Pledge to America - The Fall 2010 GOP Agenda - GOP.gov

Only for internet geeks and T.S. Eliot Fans: THE .DOC FILE OF J ALFRED PRUFROCK

2010 U.S. Election Ratings - Google

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Just look at this awesome banana shoe.

Cognitive scientists from the University of Rochester have discovered that playing action video games trains people to make the right decisions faster. The researchers found that video game players develop a heightened sensitivity to what is going on around them, and this benefit doesn’t just make them better at playing video games, but improves a wide variety of general skills that can help with everyday activities like multitasking, driving, reading small print, keeping track of friends in a crowd, and navigating around town.

— Video games lead to faster decisions that are no less accurate

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