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Celebrating More Than a Century of Government Corruption

Chris Holmes
posted on October 1, 2013October 1, 2013
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From 1910 comes this vintage Puck magazine political cartoon showing just how far we haven't come thanks to both the Republican and Democratic

Posted in Retrotisements

Retrotisements — Election Day Edition

Chris Holmes
posted on November 6, 2012February 5, 2013
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A mini-gallery featuring four vintage advertisements with an Election Day

Posted in Funny Stuff

How Google sees it: Michele Bachmann Isn’t Looking So Good

Chris Holmes
posted on September 15, 2011June 18, 2013
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Michele Bachmann is an idiot, Israel (??), crazy, hot, stupid, nuts, a moron, batshit crazy, or evil. Hey, Google said it not

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Product warning labels we really need

Chris Holmes
posted on November 11, 2010June 18, 2013
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Do people really need warning labels on cigarettes? Perhaps not, but they are needed on much more subtly dangerous items. Let's look at a

Posted in Internet

The sad, inevitable death of Pandora

Music lovers will have one less place to discover new music if the worst comes to pass, and internet radio pioneer Pandora shuts down as threatened. And that would be a damn shame for me, as

Posted in Retrotisements

Retrotisements: Prohibition Repeal Edition

To celebrate the anniversary of the day Prohibition was repealed in the United States, here's a gallery of vintage beer and alcohol

Posted in Listcruft

Interesting stuff I now know thanks to Wikipedia (Vol. 1)

Sherlock Holmes has an older brother, and his name is Mycroft. At 727 feet, the Renaissance Center is the tallest building in Michigan (the Empire State Building, by comparison, is 1,250 feet).

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Celebrating More Than a Century of Government Corruption

Retrotisements — Election Day Edition

How Google sees it: Michele Bachmann Isn’t Looking So Good

Product warning labels we really need

The sad, inevitable death of Pandora

Retrotisements: Prohibition Repeal Edition

Interesting stuff I now know thanks to Wikipedia (Vol. 1)

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