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Thursday July 30, 2009 · 11:01 AM PDT

2009/07/30 · 11:01

Materials: 24 orange habañero peppers, white distilled vinegar, a 2-cup glass Mason jar. Available at local grocery store.

Procedure: Ensure kitchen is well ventilated, with positive air flow outdoors. At all times minimize physical contact with peppers. Have ready cold running water and detergent.

Rinse peppers with cold water inside plastic bag, draining water by pinching the open end. Carefully remove peppers from plastic bag. Remove stems, place peppers in blender.

Wash hands with detergent.

Pour about one cup of white distilled vinegar in blender. Place blender cap on firmly, ensuring proper seal.

Set blender speed to Puree. Blend for 2 minutes.

WARNING: DO NOT OPEN BLENDER YET.

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Will Jimbo need socialized medicine soon?

48 votes Vote Now!

Will Jimbo need socialized medicine soon?

Yes

45 votes

3 votes

Al Franken Needs Your Help!

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Tuesday July 07, 2009 · 9:10 AM PDT

2009/07/07 · 09:10

What's the biggest problem in Washington DC these days? The undo influence of corporate money. Knowing that, why are we allowing Al Franken, the most progressive, most knowledgeable voice entering the Senate in years, to enter that body while in debt to his team of lawyers after an eight-month struggle with Smarmy Norm Coleman's pack of legal jackals?

I say let's give Al Franken a little bump on his way into the US Senate. Let's celebrate the defeat of Norm and the thugs by each sending Al Franken $25 bucks. Here's the link:

https://secure.alfranken.com/...

I don't want Al Franken to feel that he needs to start phoning for cash in his first few days of office.

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80 votes Show Results

What chance for a real public health care option?

80 votes Vote Now!

What chance for a real public health care option?

Nada

14 votes

10%

5 votes

20%

4 votes

30%

8 votes

40%

7 votes

50%

11 votes

60%

8 votes

70%

5 votes

80%

6 votes

90%

4 votes

100%

8 votes

Burrito con Puerco Incinerado

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Tuesday May 05, 2009 · 4:08 PM PDT

2009/05/05 · 16:08

I'm not much of a chef. I bought a huge marinated pork loin from Costco, brought it home, cut it in half, wrapped it in tin foil, tossed it on my mom's propane grille, lit it up, set all three burners to high, then walked away to watch a Minnesota Twins baseball game on TV for a few minutes while the grille warmed up.

Just for a few minutes...

Tragically, it was a really exciting, dramatic baseball game. A real barn-burner. Twins won, and then I thought, "Oh shit. What about the pork loin?" I raced to the grille, whose thermometer was pegged at 550 degrees Fahrenheit.

For three hours.

Oops.

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What if we don't all die of swine flu?

34 votes Vote Now!

What if we don't all die of swine flu?

Al Qaida and Rupert Murdoch will be terribly disappointed

5 votes

Next time, the pigs must try harder

10 votes

Some new terror will save us!

1 vote

Eject Texas so there's more vaccine for loyal Americans!

4 votes

Build pig factories closer to big cities

4 votes

Let's reject science some more!

4 votes

If the flu doesn't kill us, the pork will

2 votes

Once again, the time has come for Meat Mat (tm)

0 votes

Maybe if we replay disasters over and over...

0 votes

Oh, we already do.

0 votes

History Channel, Discover, Fox, all the networks....

0 votes

Damn, no wonder we're such nervous wrecks

2 votes

Yeah, and that's not counting YouTube and TIVO

0 votes

Over and over...

1 vote

Does Twitter have video?

1 vote

Electric Bicycle Report

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Thursday April 02, 2009 · 7:26 PM PDT

2009/04/02 · 19:26

Looking for a way to save gasoline last year, I found some electric bicycle conversion kits on eBay. I chose one that seemed to be in the middle range of power, and fairly cheap at about $369 dollars.

http://cgi.ebay.com/...

The following describes what I bought, how well it worked, and what I recommend to others in that area.

Prices and kits vary, but this is the one I bought and installed on a cheap Murray mountain bike, which I inherited from my brother via a local yard sale. 600 Watt motor, some control stuff and wires, plus three heavy lead-acid batteries that sit atop an included rear rack. Took a few hours to assemble, a day to charge, and now it's ready to go.

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Is DOJ investigating BushCo torture?

29 votes Vote Now!

Is DOJ investigating BushCo torture?

Yes

12 votes

17 votes

Republickers or Republikaners?

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Wednesday March 11, 2009 · 1:01 PM PDT

2009/03/11 · 13:01

I am conflicted. Now that the Republican party has gone down in flames, now that its charred corpse is being feasted on by a multitude of mindless maggots, you'd think that Democrats like me would be content to simply sit back and watch the fun.

But no. Republicans are like the Black Knight in Monty Python's Holy Grail:
http://www.youtube.com/...

Thoroughly defeated, yet they still hurl insults at the victor, like calling our party the "Democrat Party," "Democrat legislation," etc.

Time to kick them while they're down.

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Which totally immature GOP label do you prefer?

73 votes Vote Now!

Which totally immature GOP label do you prefer?

Republickers

16 votes

Republikaners

15 votes

Rethuglicans

32 votes

Other .......Do tell!

10 votes

Thoughts While Shoveling Snow II: The Reckoning

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Friday February 27, 2009 · 1:05 PM PST

2009/02/27 · 13:05

"Die, die...Everybody should die!"

Anger makes the big chunks fly a little farther, until exhaustion makes you stop. I leaned on my shovel, my fifty-year-old bod huffing and sweating. Half a century, god damn. Luckily, I have big lungs. It's kind of fun blowing steamy breath into cold air. Then, back to shoveling.

Last time I wrote about shoveling, I ranted about how Bush and his horde of pirates were torturing, starting wars and plundering the Treasury. That sounded about right then, and it sure sounds right, about now. They really did those things. To America, their own country. And they meant to do all those things right from the start. Those crafty old nixons rigged the whole justice system, from the DOJ to the Attorney General to the US Attorneys, the federal courts and even the fucking Supremes. All that, just to get away with a crime spree for the ages.

And it worked.

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Should we tolerate evil Rethugs that kill and destroy?

32 votes Vote Now!

Should we tolerate evil Rethugs that kill and destroy?

Yes

3 votes

29 votes

Goodbye to Yellowbrick Row

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Thursday February 26, 2009 · 11:37 AM PST

2009/02/26 · 11:37

Memories of youth fade to insubstantial, unclutchable specks, but a few precious things still shine from that ineffable darkness. For me, such were the immortal lyrics of Elton John's classic, "Goodbye to Yellowbrick Row."

So goodbye to Yellowbrick Row, where the doghouse calliope growls,
You can't touch me and your pen pal, going back to my plow,
Vacuum the pliers that sound like a bull, cash in my money-back trou,
Oh I've found the lie of my future wife, beyond the Yellowbrick Row-w-w-w...

Strange and striking, these lyrics defined for me a generation searching for meaning. No wonder Elton wore such enormous glasses. They symbolized his search for truth. I'm still not sure about the hats.

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Who is the leader of the Repubicans?

64 votes Vote Now!

Who is the leader of the Repubicans?

Rushbo

27 votes

Bobby Jingo

0 votes

Mike Steele

1 vote

Pat Buchanan

1 vote

O'Reilly/Hannity/Beck/Dobbs/Savage

13 votes

Rupert Murdoch

1 vote

Loki

4 votes

Lex Luthor

10 votes

Otis, Luthor's sidekick

7 votes

Limericks Are Too Easy

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Wednesday February 18, 2009 · 10:02 AM PST

2009/02/18 · 10:02

A week ago...

There once was a guvnah named Blago
Who thought he was smart, like Iago
When impeached for his crimes
He defended with rhymes
'Cuz dat's how dey roll in Chicago.

Today...

A senator some would call Rollie,
Appointed as Blago's last folly
Denied with a shout
That his seat was about
All those phone calls for Blago, by golly!

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Will Burris be ejected from the Senate?

98 votes Vote Now!

Will Burris be ejected from the Senate?

Yes

60 votes

38 votes

Try Doing All the Good Things

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Tuesday February 10, 2009 · 10:52 AM PST

2009/02/10 · 10:52

Note to Barack: Faced with Republican intransigence, here's a plan. Propose everything good, and refuse to do anything bad.

Good = Money to help re-build America's infrastructure and develop a new, greener economy.

Bad = Any more tax cuts.

In fact, Barack Obama would be best advised to define himself as opposed to everything Bush did. Barack should raise taxes radically on corporations and rich individuals. He should rescind all the tax cuts since Reagan.

What effects would this have?

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Is compromising your principles a good thing?

14 votes Vote Now!

Is compromising your principles a good thing?

Yes

0 votes

8 votes

Depends

6 votes

Obama and the Elephant

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Thursday February 05, 2009 · 12:01 PM PST

2009/02/05 · 12:01

Young Captain Obama was sailing in a little row boat, wondering how he'd ever reach land, when up swam an elephant, struggling to stay afloat.

"Help me aboard," demanded the elephant, "or I'll stomp all over you."

Odd threat, coming from a drowning elephant.

"Aren't you the elephant that ran the Good Ship America aground on the metaphorical shoals of economic depression?" he asked.

"No no no," said the elephant. "That wasn't a real elephant. I'm a real elephant. A real elephant would never sink a ship, because as everybody knows, elephants can't swim."

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What's worse, salt in a wound or pepper in your eyes?

15 votes Vote Now!

What's worse, salt in a wound or pepper in your eyes?

Salt

0 votes

Pepper

3 votes

I like a little salt and pepper.

1 vote

What about tobasco?

3 votes

Don't forget ketchup!

1 vote

I bet I could drink a cup of habanero!

4 votes

Say, that's not as hot as....OH SHIT!

3 votes

Ignoring the Obvious: Salt and Copper

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Thursday January 29, 2009 · 11:21 AM PST

2009/01/29 · 11:21

Our ancestors lacked microscopes and many other scientific instruments, but they did have the most important tool of all: an eye for what works. Drink river water from a copper bowl, and you wouldn't get sick. Rub copper in a fresh wound, and it wouldn't get infected.

http://www.iom3.org/...
http://www.youtube.com/...

In a related phenomenon, bronchitis sufferers that spend time in a salt mine tend to get better quickly, presumably because salt (and possibly airborne mineral dust) tends to kill off airborne bacteria.

http://www.articlesbase.com/...

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Have you ever been abascinated?

16 votes Vote Now!

Have you ever been abascinated?

Yes

1 vote

6 votes

This implies a conundrum.

9 votes

"It is better to make friends than to make enemies."

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Tuesday January 27, 2009 · 1:32 PM PST

2009/01/27 · 13:32

Of course this isn't an actual quote, because frankly, who would claim it? It's not a lyrical saying from holy scripture or the calculated words of a great philosopher, because it's just too damned obvious to bother, right? It's slightly more difficult than, "Don't piss on your own leg."

And yet, collectively our species seems to have missed this simple, obvious bit of common sense all throughout history. Go back as far as you want in chiseled rock or scraps of papyrus and you'll find evidence of kings and warlords making war on each other or exploiting each other as slaves or to build pyramids or other goofy shit.

But how, you might wonder, could we possibly remind all the world's peoples to observe this basic bit of common sense?

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Is it better to make friends than enemies?

54 votes Vote Now!

Is it better to make friends than enemies?

Yes

36 votes

4 votes

Huh?

1 vote

Well sure, but...

5 votes

But daddy told me...

3 votes

But the preacher told me...

2 votes

But my imam told me...

1 vote

But my rabbi told me...

2 votes

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