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TMR #166: Graham Joins the Cast of Mep Babies (The Jaundice Episode)

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Storey Enjoys Snow, has a Sandwich, and Becomes a Father
Getting the Swaddles: a Game-Changer
Clayton v. American Health Insurance
Don’t Cut the Umbilical Cord!
The Horrors of… JAUNDICE!
The Power of Saying No
Making Birth an Emergency
BABABAMAMFAPHDDOI (Yellow)
Pumping and Dumping MepCoin
Danny Trejo’s Ex-Wife Rips Off Russ
The Reddit Revolution Makes Progress
A Serious Exploration of Free Speech, Censorship, and Education
Google Now Does Evil
Corporations Will Float Everyone’s Boat by Magic Hands
Facebook vs. Twitter vs. the Future

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TMR #165: We Don’t Need No Emucation

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2020: Everybody Dies
Storey’s Thesis
Storey’s Thesis on Universities as Pyramid Schemes
Greg Cashes in His Elixirs to Not Die
Have You Heard the Good News About Hy-Flex?
Harvard Could Build Another Harvard
College, Huh, Who is it Necessary for?
One-Year Mandatory National Service
Social Media Doom and Despair
Do You Feel Lucky?
The Meppers Solve Our Educational Future
Russ Quickly Tries to Sabotage the Show

TMR #163 – The Emu Cancels Everything

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Coronavirus: Pence Will Save Us?!
Storey Flies in the Face of Caution
Donald Trump’s Katrina
Dyin’ in Beverly Hills
Children are Our Future… Survivors
Return of the Credulous Character
Will Trump “Postpone” the Election “Indefinitely”?
A Serious Debate About the Nature and Future of the Democratic Party
We Can All Agree to Hate Chris Matthews!
And We All Hate Mike Bloomberg!
Annnnnd We’re Back to Disagreements…
We Try to Tie a Cute Little Bow on Our Discussion

TMR 160 – Meppers Join the Democratic Debates

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Midsummer… or is it?
Neil Gaiman Stories
Poe vs. Lovecraft
Smart? Speakers
Angels of Boredom
Libra vs. MepCoin
Our Utopian/Dystopian Corporate/Governmental Future
Storey and Greg’s Stump Speech for Elizabeth Warren
Russ Joins the Yang Gang
An Extensive Analysis of the American Electorate
Fear of a Jeffrey Epstein

Mep Report #158: Russ Catches All the Scooters

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British Parliament: A Study in Well-Spoken Collapse
Greg’s Ancestry with Amistad
Storey’s Wandering Genes
Russ the Merman
The Triumphs and Travails of Russ the Renegade Scooter Returner
RIP Russ’ $9 Million Bitcoin Mansion
Mepcoin Still Available!

Mep Report #148: The Unabomber, Stalin, and Kevin Smith Walk into a Bar…

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In the Year 2222
Why Don’t Greg and Russ Like Doctor Who?
Bowling is Up Storey’s Alley
Kevin Smith and the Last 20 Years
Naming Conventions and the Destiny of Unusal Names
Rehabilitating Stalin
Russ Defends the Unabomber and/or Malthus
The Case for the Maintenance Society
Time-Traveling Murderers

Mep Report #131: MepCoin Launches!

The emu rings the opening bell late last month to usher in the new flightless bird-based currency.

The emu rings the opening bell late last month to usher in the new flightless bird-based currency.

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You Will Not Crucify Us on a Cross of MepCoin, Barnacles on the Bitcoin Boat, Greg Doesn’t Want to be Mr. Potter, How Much Coin Could A MepCoin Mep if a MepCoin Could Coin Mep, Greg will [REDACTED] when Russ [REDACTED] because Storey [REDACTED], The Only Winning Game is to Mep, and Long Movies are Long, Snoozefest are Snooze.

Happy Capitalism Weekend

While the carnage of Black Friday is behind us, it’s not too late to gather around the warming glow of the Ronco Showtime Rotisserie Cooker and give thanks for all the rival Target patrons we’ve drop-kicked, all the piece-of-crap iPhone 5S’s we’ve trashed, and planned obsolescence we’ve fueled. A Happy Cappy day to all.

Courage. Competence. Commitment.

Amidst the Professional Left’s sackcloth and ashes routine about a debt deal result which they helped engineer–by kneecapping President Obama at every turn and depressing turnout in the midterm elections, giving us Speaker Boehner and the petulant childrenunrepentant racists/mighty party of Tea–was this extraordinary sight:

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Cultural Capitalism

Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Zizzek argues here that acts of charity within corrupted capitalist societies do nothing but perpetuate harmful economic systems. Only the allowance of unabashed cruelty can accelerate the demise of such systems.