The Masters of the Universe are Assholes.

Stay classy, fuckers.

Chemical Pie. Why World, Why?

Chemical Apple Pie.

Apparently if you cook this filthy list in a pie tin it tastes like apple pie:

2 cups sugar

2 tsp. cream of tartar

1-3/4 cups water

Zest and 2 Tbsp. juice from 1 lemon

1 pkg. (14.1 oz.) ready-to-use refrigerated pie crust (2 crusts)

36 RITZ Crackers, coarsely broken (about 1-3/4 cups)

2 Tbsp. butter or margarine, cut into small pieces

1/2 tsp. ground cinnamon

I gather that this is a WWII or earlier recipe designed to taste like delicious fruity pie without actually containing any apples made prohibitively expensive due to rationing and shortages, but sweet fucking Jesus tits, why would you eat it now?

h/t to The Awl

We're fucked.

A Diebold voting machine can be rigged for 20 fucking dollars. Surprise, surprise. I wonder what President-elect Al Gore would have to say about that?

We may actually be doomed after all.

Actual economist says "job creators" destroy jobs too!

From an NPR interview with professor Justin Wolfers from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania:

WOLFERS: Small businesses, firms that are just starting out, a bunch of them succeed, and a bunch of them fail. If we only count the success, which would be the wrong thing to do, we'd say they create an enormous number of jobs. But, you know, how difficult it is to start a successful small business. And so sure, they're doing a lot of hiring in total. But they're also doing a lot of firing as well.

BLOCK: Interesting, too, that a lot of small businesses are so small that it's essentially one person. It's maybe an independent corporation, or someone who's self-employed could be a small business?

WOLFERS: Yeah. And so this is actually one of the parts where the rhetoric of small business, I think, really leads us astray. If you actually look at the data, what we mean by small businesses, what they actually are, they're things like real estate agents or my hairdresser. They're lawyers; they're doctors. You talk to these folks, do they have any interest in innovating or bringing new products to market or any of the things we think of as being the engine of economic growth? The answer is no. My dry cleaner likes to take my clothes and then give them to me four days later. Most small businesses don't even have ambitions of being the engines of economic growth, or the engines of jobs.

Gee, I thought that the all powerful John Galt like Job Creators™ could do no wrong and were the engine of the economy and that we should all bow down before them like the groveling serfs we really should be.

Or... maybe there is nothing inherently righteous in running a business. Oh, yeah. Business is about making money, not creating jobs.

Hypocritical Republicans!

From our house minority leader comes this fun graph:



I know. Assholes.

Breaking news: the United States is still a profoundly religious country despite all rational evidence for other belief systems.

From Crooks and Liars:

Some people profess to know with absolute certainty that our moral code was dictated by an all-powerful space ghost, who sculpted us out of magic clay, and transcribed on stone by a mountain-climbing desert-hobo who looked a great deal like Charlton Heston.

Whole article:
Thoughts on Troy Davis: Americans Confuse Morality with Religion.

Englishmen spend 4 years hungover. How long are they drunk?

From the Daily Mail: "The Average Briton Spends Four Years Hungover."

Researchers found we struggle with a splitting headache and nausea for 24 days a year, which equates to 1,452 days during an average adult lifetime.

The survey of 2,000 adults, by YorkTest, found while Saturday and Sunday were the most common 'sorehead' days, one in 10 said they were often hungover on a Monday.

Sweet christ. That is, conservatively, 5 percent of someone's life, in some cases, more like 7-8%. I get hangovers too, but not like that. Unless that's why I fucking hate the morning.

Also, it's just occurred to me that the average Briton must spend something like 8-10 years drunk. Sounds like a capital idea!

My future senator.

Muy bien!

The reason America is fat is becuase hardly anyone smokes anymore.

I knew it! Smoke 'em if you got 'em friends, and we'll all stay skinny together.

From the Atlantic:

The sidewalks are getting crowded. Today, about 30 percent of Americans are obese -- not fat, obese. That's a roughly 100 percent increase from just 25 years ago, according to a working paper released this month by the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). As the country sheds manufacturing jobs and more Americans move from blue-collar positions to white, jobs are becoming more and more sedentary. With the economy in tatters, food stamp use (and, with it, the consumption of unhealthy foods) is on the rise. But there's another factor contributing to our weight gain that is often overlooked: Smoking.

Full article here.

The gospel of supply side Jesus.

Supply Side Jesus, The Comic Strip:


Click through to read in full. Its worth it. I originally saw it in Al Franken's (now Senator Al Franken, (D-Min) book Lies and the Lying Liars who Tell Them.

Journalism is not about fairness.

Excellent: http://www.alternet.org/media/152463/the_problem_of_media_idiocy%3A_why_do_msm_media_stars_pretend_to_be_stupid.

The men and women who inhabit the upper reaches of the US media (and pull down the multimillion-dollar salaries) appear to believe that to do their jobs properly, they must make themselves behave like idiots in order to be “fair” to the Republicans and their idiotic ideas.

Indeed, it seems as this is a hidden agreement somewhere. Assholes.

Dicks in church.

From It's Just a Ride comes the harrowing story of a man's cock showing itself whilst in church.

It's Just a Ride: How d'ya do??: To the fearless Massapequa, NY man that expressed such wanton perversion in an area church yesterday: I Salute You! From News12 Long Isla...

My, my. The Department of Defense is the largest employer in the world.

Give this a gander:



http://www.economist.com/blogs/dailychart/2011/09/employment

Dwarf Porn!

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AWEsome.

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