As you probably read in the news today, President Obama officially announced a new START arms control treaty with Russia which will reduce each side’s nuclear arsenal to 1,500 strategic warheads, along with other delivery and verification protocols which will ensure the reduction is actually happening. (This is, of course, still more than enough to annihilate everything hundreds of times over, and there are many more warheads “in reserve” on each side, so we’ve got a long way to go…but still.) Assuming the Senate ratifies said treaty (which, admittedly, might take a little time thanks to the party of teabaggersparty of inciting violenceparty of liesparty of No Republicans in that august body), and for those keeping score at home, that means that in the first fourteen months of the administration:
Just another couple people thinking for themselves.
For 63 years, Goshen College has refrained from playing the national anthem before sporting events because the song prioritizes war and allegiance to country over peaceful devotion to God. Sixty-three years ending this year.
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.
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.
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).
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.
This is an epic Funny or Die piece. It takes us back through four generations of SNL crews, and highlights some of the best impersonators still walking around. Though, not all of these characters are exactly spot on (cough… Chevy… cough).
From Droogie at Daily Kos comes a new and exciting competition (we here at The Mep Report take no obvious position on the content herein. You’ll all just have to read between the lines for yourselves…):
The Out-Dick Jim Bunning Contest!
So, here’s a few of the things I’ve done over the past few days to prove my dick credentials, in my ongoing efforts to out-dick Jim Bunning.
