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Data harvesting through the “Cow Game“.

University of Virginia Hires ‘Social Sentinel’ to Monitor Students’ Social Media Posts.

Everybody Hates Jeff Flake.

Making Love Like An Intellectual.

Skipping on the Moon â€“ fun maybe, but is it efficient?.

on the dying taxi cab.

Masha Gessen discusses the non Putin candidates.

The Soviet Union and the American South and the role of the statues.

well, if Dan Lipinski beatÂ Marie Newman because of an open primary, at least its small d in the sense that it’s representative of the overall electorate — pace the neo nazi republican.

Cynthia Nixon runs for New York governor.

botched attempt at a “political incorrect truthism“.

What happens to a pay phone in the current post pay phone era.

The dark underbelly of elections everywhere, and how little policy matter.
Oh, for the days of Tammany.

… standard Onion take.

pondering the value of The Milpitas Monster… well, its creation has its positive interest.

drug humor in Dennis the Menace.

Who is Teal Swan?

Various students who won’t be joining the studen walk out.Â Â â€œI asked a few friends, who would be participating, what exactly it was about,â€ Arenas told HuffPost in an email, adding that her friendsâ€™ responses ranged from â€œbanning gunsâ€ to â€œprotesting school shootingsâ€ to â€œLGBTQ rights.â€

The CIA… gasp… runs the Dems.

another pro-Putin party formed… and… check out the poll results for all the authorized parties running.

Good question:Â would they allow for a 17 minute walk out over abortion?

perennials.

What is the Greatest Number of all time?Â It’s not pi.

Shoplifting seagulls.

Women not given the New York Times obituary treatment.

Theresa May accuses Putin of the Â Litvinenko and Sergei Skripal deaths.

“Hard Times in VHS Country“.Â Sure.Â Sure.Â Coulda done the same cartoon about a President Sanders.

… though not Cory Booker.

The Video Game conference with the president.

In some ways, this future, should it come about, would represent a tectonic shift in the political dynamic surrounding American health care policy, a twist in which the party that gave us Obamacare moves on while the party that opposed it takes over its defense.Â As opposed to how it originally went, when it was essentially Dole’s alternative to Clinton’s health care plan.

Rhyming kids jingles across languages.

When Everyone’s just watching.

Late Night talk show hosts are all the same.

How Germany views America and guns.

The world’s last male northern white rhino is on death watch.

West Virginia teacher strikers.

Millennial definition made.Â 1996 was the last year.Â I remain in Generation X.Â Barely.

Teacher Accused of Espousing White Nationalist Views Says It Was â€˜Satireâ€™.Â Hm.Â Did she make it explicit with a disclaimer?

What to do about gun violence in the wake of the teacher assault.

Anything else?.

The US Senate votes for banking deregulation.Â 17 Democrats, and clandestinely Schumer.

Johnny Rotten?

Melanie Trump to the Rescue…

how much does amazon dot come pay in taxes?

Mississippi has a second Senate race… problem: McDaniels would have probably won the general election.

Black backlash against Black Panther.

Seeing it a happen.

The heckling at this year’s CPAC.
… how they explain the most controversial figures speaking.

parables.

Author Of â€˜Introduction To Algebraâ€™ Recalls Textbook Being Rejected By 12 Publishers Before Getting Accepted.

yep.Â This is probably worse than the Confederate statues.Â (Frederick Douglas said so at the time.)

The Strange Evolution of Henry Louis Gates’s Estimate of Alex Haley and â€œRootsâ€.

Austria’s weird anti-semtic frats.

Katha Pollitt and the last paragraph.

Peter Wilby couldn’t follow Hamilton.Â And too expensive.

Kaczynski, Obama, and Trump.

Finding the maximalist number of “school shootings“.

Fiedler on the Roof.

Lockdown drills add up to unnecessary PTSD.

Staunch Trumpian Republican Kathleen Wall and her 2008 vote for Hillary Clinton.

The End Times.

Chain Migration Then.
alsoÂ Chain Migration then.

The Republican Arthur Davis running in Illinois on the “Holocaust Denier White People Rule” platform.

Fighting Porn one way or another.

undertaking a broad cultural shift toward reflexively reporting sad loners to the authorities.

Russia has a problem too.Â It’s effects are mitigated by the fact that the kids use knives instead of guns.

Transgendered woman lacreates.

The Military Parades are coming.Â To finally end the Vietnam Syndrome.
It’s all about France envy?

A Gang of 20 pops in to thread a contradictory line on immigration… a history of Senate Gangs.

the golden age of the Internets.

A ridiculous list of what brought Trump that doesn’t answer anything.

The price of misplaced apostrophes.

More to the story about “The Differences between the Ancient and Modern Olympics“.

2005Â Obama and Farrakhan photo emerges.
… buried.Â Because… duh.

remembering the old glory days of the GOP.

the descent of recess

Opiods aren’t creating any new good art.

Is Fracking increasing the risk of STDs?

The Davos protesters.

Trump responsible for dumb teen’s CNN death threats.

We are doomed. when a number of Hawaiians knew that they werenâ€™t going to die in a nuclear explosion, they rushed to the Internet to watch pornography to calm themselves. They didnâ€™t go find a wife, a partner, a friend. They went to their computer and, alone, watched strangers screwing.

“micro-cheating“.Â We’re losing our minds.

Good Luck in battling this regime.