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"It ain't racist, it's funny and it's mah freedom of speech," old racist proudly declares.
- Give them firearms! - "Three police officers were injured after a suspect grabbed a gun and opened fire inside the Gloucester Township police station in New Jersey early Friday, police said." (NBC)
- Don't Be Evil - Hey Google, howzabout Don't be stuuupid? Anyway, they have an app on their Fischer-Price phones "Make Me Asian," that allows users to change their appearance by reshaping eyes or fashioning portraits with rice paddy hats and Fu Manchu mustaches; not surprisingly it is facing protests from Asian-American groups. (The Wrap)
- Evil Twin - Astronomers predict that in 2013 they will find a habitable planet, a twin to earth, which presumably we can go f*** up, or something? (Raw Story)
--Tengrain
Optional soundtrack to item #3:
http://youtu.be/Ypb54RBGzqE
Posted by: Cap'n Phealy | December 28, 2012 at 10:13 AM
Clearly what's needed is armed officers in every police station. Oh, wait...
Posted by: mothra | December 28, 2012 at 10:27 AM
Bet that planet's hoping they're too far away for us to fuck with them.
Posted by: montag | December 28, 2012 at 10:39 AM
1600 Pennsylvania Ave. Bugs you, doesn't it.
Posted by: Frances the Cockatoo | December 28, 2012 at 12:35 PM
Oh don't worry montag - any habitable planet is so far away that we couldn't get to it with the available energy we have now on earth in any kind of "real time." Besides, we're about at the end of our little adventure here and won't be going anywhere - failed experiment and all that we are (ie. "homo plumbeus" would have been a more appropriate moniker).
Why wasn't there a schoolteacher in the police station to protect them?
Posted by: Tom | December 28, 2012 at 01:52 PM
we could at least wave high.
Posted by: pansypoo | December 28, 2012 at 02:46 PM