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Olympic Logo ‘Porn’ Could Lead to Prosecution

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If you’re a British citizen with a vivid imagination, a glance at the 2012 London Olympic festivities could have you branded a trafficker of child pornography.

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Happy Belated Turkey Festivity Havings

From a world-weary traveler returning to Mep HQ, wanting to wish all of you a happy extended turkey weekend…

Housing Fire Sale Update


Today’s post will revisit our previous analysis of the housing sales surge to see if there’s cause for celebration yet…

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And Now, Your LA Ethnocentrists!

LA Clipper Ignoramus Announcers Ralph Lawler and Michael Smith were suspended from duty this week for their wildly inappropriate rant about Iranian-born Memphis Grizzly, Hamed Haddadi.

And I thought we saved this kind of commentary for the NASCAR TV crew.

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.

100 Quotes from The Wire

Going to take a quick break from mass-media bashing mode to remind you heathens of the rare opportunities to learn from your TV. Hence this excellent mashup clip of one of the greatest television series ever created…

(Ahem… Warning for language… You may have to cover your virgin ears should you decline to be properly educated)

There’s Something Wrong with Our Media


Source: CNN.com, 17 November 2009

I’m just sayin’.

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Jon Stewart Does a Bang Up Glen Beck

An absolute tour de force performance. It seems as if the Daily Show is now trying to win an additional dramatic Emmy to add to its award heap.

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Geitner Punts 2.3 Billion to CIT

Missou U Economics Professor William Black explaining how Treasury Secretary Tim Geitner failed to secure even the most modest guarantees for taxpayer bailout money going to the recently insolvent investment house, CIT.

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Human vs Klingon Propaganda

Ever wonder which facism-craving warlike race has the better video propaganda?

This Klingon propaganda reel comes to us via the Star Trek devotees at Bad Monkey Studios. Somehow they had the wherewithal to record the entire thing in an authentic Worf-ian dialect.

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