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Financial Firms – Universities of Evil

This morning, Pulitzer Prize winning reporter and respected rationalist, Chris Hedges, levied a brutal assault against the corporate citizen’s moral code (or frightening lack thereof) that seems set on consuming every decent and egalitarian institution this country has left.

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Deepak Chopra- LSD is for the Enlightened Only

Good Festivus Tidings to all and sundry. For those rare few seeking a spiritual awakening on this Ancient Pagan Equinox Festival (otherwise known as Jesus Day), here is a clip from your local endocrinologist/lecturer/Indian Peter Sellers, Deepak Choprah, who doesn’t want you to use recreational drugs unless you already have an innate perception of the nature of the world. Isn’t that like asking you to refrain from using a bowling ball until you record a perfect 300 game? I remain skeptical.

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From the Church of Latter Day Demons

Feeling the holiday season doldrums? Why not open up new terrifying vistas of reality with the Necronomicon? And, if you purchase one in the next two minutes, you’ll receive an ebony Chtulhu-style sacrificial blade at no extra cost!

My new somewhat original catchphrase

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During my short-lived career as a stand-up comic, I had a catchphrase which was not unique to me, but which I made so much my own thru my brilliance that everyone who saw me remembered it forever more as mine…
Well, I created a new phrase and thanks to Google am happy to report that only three other people have thought of it!

Alright you ready?….

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The Mep Who Stares at Goats (Mep Report #117)

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Facebook Is Kind. Facebook Is Good. All Hail Facebook. When Even Foresight Should Have Been 20/20; Just War Vs. Just a War; Gilligan’s Island As Metaphor for War; Clea and Facebook are BFF; Storey Still Hates Privacy; How the Internet Saved and Destroyed the World At the Same Time; and It’s All Fun And Games Until Someone Loses a Thought.

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Bill Maher on the Dunder-headed Media

Crank with access, Bill Maher, made a remarkably redemptive appearance on Jay Leno last night.

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Chomsky on the US’s “Democratic Deficit”

Libertarian Socialist Paragon, Noam Chomsky, briefly discusses some of America’s infrastructural challenges to ever developing anything resembling a true democratic political system.

If You’re Healthy, Getting the H1N1 Vaccine is Immoral


You may think getting the H1N1 vaccine is a good idea. If you’re a kid, elderly, pregnant, or have a vulnerable immune system, sure. But otherwise, you’re being immoral.

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DirecTV Profits Off of the Dead

I’d love to have been a fly on the wall in the DirectTV board meeting where they approved the brilliant idea of desecrating the memory of Chris Farley so that their company’s stock can rise a few points. Bonus to the artist formerly known as David Spade for going along with this.

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A Life Lived in the Rat Race

Leave it to the French to author the final word on Corporate Darwinism. “Switch” is a short film by Jean-Julein Pous and Pierre Prinzbach intended to convey “…a methaphysical thought about time. It’s the destiny of humanity through a character and its different choices, materialized by doubles of himself.”

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