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Reading Wikipedia's Wikipedia page did not provide the meta-thrill I was hoping for. 1 day ago
Yes! RT @KenTremendous: http://twitpic.com/1859au - @azizansari and Detlef Schrempf. #ParksandRec just got awesomer. And more Germanic. 1 day ago
I am planning to give a $10 Wendy's gift card to my one-millionth Twitter follower. 1 day ago
Now I just want to watch John Hughes movies all day. 6 days ago
It's just you. And the rest of America. RT @RichardDedor: Is it me, or is Kathi Ireland terrible? #oscars 6 days ago
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02/06/09

The Parody Party

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Yesterday, I watched Stephen Colbert make fun of the $50 million in stimulus money that is being allocated for funding for the National Endowment of the Arts.
In typical Colbert fashion, he joked about how arts don’t help anything or anyone and how Congress could find better use for the money. He moved on and I [...]

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02/03/09

My Wasteful Spending List

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Republicans have released their list of what they deem as “wasteful” spending in the near-$900 billion stimulus bill that is working its way through Congress.
All totaled, the waste list roughly adds up to about $25 billion or so.
I’ll freely admit that a lot of the projects listed in here seem frivolous, like giving $850 million [...]

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