Simply Dumb

To my great surprise, the city of Los Angeles, California has beat out San Francisco, Seattle, and Las Vegas to become the first American city to call itself home to a very particular kind of vending machine.
In at least three machines across the city, you can now purchase medicinal marijuana, 24-hours a day from the convenience of a nondescript vending machine.  But look out teens and hippies, it’s not as easy as just sliding in a quarter.
It requires fingerprint identification and a prepaid card with a magnetic strip which are limited in availability to medically authorized consumers.  Unlike most …read more

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At my undergraduate lecture today on National Security, the professor was talking about US Intelligence and familiarizing the students with the various agencies’ websites.  The last site we visited, belonging to the National Security Agency (NSA), had a little surprise. 
See if you can figure out what it is in the screenshot below.  Click on the picture to enlarge it.

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The AP has reported that Metropolitan Isaiah, a Greek Orthodox Bishop based in Denver, Colorado, has lost his crown.  Well, more specifically, it has been stolen.
Apparently the crown was stolen when a burglar broke into the Bishop’s car while he was dining with friends at a nearby resteraunt.  Isaiah estimates the worth of the bejeweled gold and silver crown to be between $6000 and $10000.  Taken along with the crown was a copy of the Christian Bible, a veil, a cellphone, and a black fabric bag.
I don’t know if anyone else is thinking this, but let me be one of …read more

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CBS is reporting the release of a new, incredibly politically incorrect, made-for-adults board game from a very unexpected source.  The son of Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius, John Sebelius, has begun peddling a board game entitled Don’t Drop the Soap.
This "prison-themed" time waster was the result of a class project he recently completed at the Rhode Island School of Design.  Here is how Sebelius’ website describes the game:
Fight your way through 6 different exciting locations in hopes of being granted parole. Escape prison riots in The Yard, slip glass into a mob boss’ lasagna in the Cafeteria, steal painkillers from …read more

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By now, the Hamas-engineered destruction of the Gaza-Egypt border fence and the resulting uninterrupted flow of Palestinians to and from the Sinai Peninsula is already old news. 
These dramatic events have themselves already overshadowed the temporary power "blackout" which supposedly resulted from Israel shutting off fuel supplies to the territory on January 22.  It was apparent from the start that the ruling powers in Gaza shut down the plants not necessarily for lack of fuel but as a twisted ploy for international sympathy. 
In any event, further evidence is mounting and even some journalists are beginning to catch on.  For …read more

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Some relatively creative soul over at YouTube has taken notice of this year’s presidential electoral mantra and put it to song.  That’s right, David Bowie’s immortal song, "Changes". 
Watch the whole video below and, in case you want to sing along, check out the lyrics after the jump.  
In the most recent change, Dennis Kucinich has finally thrown in the towel, not that his leaving the race will give any of the front-runners any more votes.  We’re all still waiting on good old Ron Paul to follow suit. 

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The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation has recently finished producing a series called "The Week the Women Went".  Filmed in small oil-patch town of Hardisty, Alberta, population 760, the show explores how the men of the town cope with their jobs, homemaking, and children while all the women in town enjoy an all-expenses paid week-long vacation at a resort. 
The program has been billed as a "social experiment" in gender issues.  To be perfectly honest, it just sounds to me like one more lame attempt at broadening the scope of reality television.  Still, it might be interesting to watch oil field workers …read more

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There is very little I can say about this video that it doesn’t say for itself.  I wish I had a trunk monkey. 
By the by, check out the service from where we got the video.  Utterz.com is a really cool service where you can automatically post to your blog just by making a phone call.  It’s also a very nice online social networking community.

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Whether you want to fight back those pre-presidential election blues or just want to stick it to your least favorite candidates, this game is for you.
Miniclip.com presents Presidential Paintball.  In this flash-based arcade shooter, you choose to play as one of six 2008 presidential hopefuls: Hilary Clinton, Barack Obama, John Edwards, Rudy Giuliani, Mitt Romney, or John McCain.  Then you duke it out with your rivals in an all-out paintball war inside the White House.
This is both a great time waster and a very easy play.  Got time to kill?  Check it out here.

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After suffering through last night’s Democratic presidential candidate debate, I am firmly convinced that none of the candidates really could give a flying rat’s "behind" about the issues.  They’d rather tear each other new ones over who’s incrementally different health care plan or Iraq withdrawal scenario is worse than the next.
Fortunately, we have the Onion News Network’s coverage of the War for the White House to set us all straight.  That’s right, The Onion has convinced me that the presidential candidates do really care about the issues and reaching out to the voters.  They’re finally taking a hint and connecting …read more

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