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The Evils of Counting

If you’ve listened to your Mass Media Overlords recently, you may be aware that the US Census is now considered a hugely controversial program. National radio frass-heap Rush Limbaugh has even begun to encourage his devotees to abstain from answering any race-based counting questions to stymie government programs that rely on this type of data. Other such objections have been handily summed up by Satirist Sub-Commander, Stephen Colbert.

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Elecrticiy Via Death Ray

Only 2200 years after Archimedes used a mirror-powered heat ray to ignite invading Roman barges, modern humans have found that death rays prove an ample source of energy.

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MEP Doomsaying Aligns with Mep

Member of European Parliament, David Campbell Bannerman reveals his prediction of an ugly fate for Greece, Portugal, Italy, Ireland, and Spain — all heavily debt laden EU members. I say, these MEPers are starting to sound like Meppers.

Reality Based Theme Park Opens (Mep Report #118)

The Mep that Neither Begins nor Ends; How Improv Can Either Save the World or Destroy it; Murderous Shepherds and Other Little Known Cultural Legacies; Gladwell’s Advocate; Privacy – Destroyer of all Things; and Why Asians are Great at Math (but Terrible at Piloting).

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Time for Madness

Hey Everybody! Come join our bracket pick-em…

Click here to join the Meppers in the fun…

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Internet Run By Helpful Space Lady

This was news to me. But I, for one, welcome our new Alien Cyber-Overlords. I’d like to remind them that as a trusted IntraWebs personality, I can be helpful in rounding up others to toil in their underground server caves.

Why Most Meppers Love March

I know Russ has a pronounced preference for watching millionaires play basketball, but it’s stories like this about amateur students that make March so exciting for us:

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Hobo-Ken!

Congratulations, sir, you win at Photoshop.

This is surely the best thing to happen to the “Land of the Tobacco Pipe,” in roughly 165 years, when the first organized game of baseball was played at Elysian Fields. And, by virtue of this post, you now know everything you will ever need to know about Hoboken, NJ. You’re welcome.

Glen Beck Points the Finger at the Emu.

Oh crap… He’s on to us. (Reaches for cyanide tooth capsule).

Dan Nocera: Earth’s Self-Proclaimed Savior

MIT Chemistry Professor, Dan Nocera claims to have solved that pesky little energy production problem we humans have been struggling with. Rather than telling us how, exactly, he plans on using photosynthesis to create and store energy, he prefers to deliver his gospel in the form of a disjointed PowerPoint presentation.