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Why there are zero Iranian-Americans - funny PSA

Barry & the Ska Boys

America’s Finest News Source with yet another scoop.

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Obama's Embarrassing Ska Album Resurfaces

Obama’s Embarrassing Ska Album Resurfaces

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The Heavens Can Wait

Telling it like it is

I suspect he would have enjoyed this. As much as he enjoyed anything, the old grump.

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Bunch Of Phonies Mourn J.D. Salinger

Salinger
CORNISH, NH—In this big dramatic production that didn’t do anyone any good (and was pretty embarrassing, really, if you think about it), thousands upon thousands of phonies across the country mourned the death of author J.D. Salinger, who was 91 years old for crying out loud. “He had a real impact on the literary world and on millions of readers,” said hot-shot English professor David Clarke, who is just like the rest of them, and even works at one of those crumby schools that rich people send their kids to so they don’t have to look at them for four years. “There will never be another voice like his.” Which is exactly the lousy kind of goddamn thing that people say, because really it could mean lots of things, or nothing at all even, and it’s just a perfect example of why you should never tell anybody anything.Read more at www.theonion.com
 

Puppy Sale

Manifest density

Dear Mandy,

The Digital Economy Bill is silly.

Sincerely,

Ed

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Regular OurKingdom readers will be aware of Peter Mandelson’s plans to take upon himself the power to deputise non-governmental third parties (potentially including record companies and movie studios) to force internet service providers to hand over data on and disconnect users who may be downloading copyrighted material.

Portia Barnett-Herrin sends in this satirical Dan Bull video, featuring an irate netizen reading out a letter to Peter Mandelson set - optimistically? - to the tune of Lily Allen’s Never Gonna Happen:

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Swiss sanity

I like your style, M. Morand.

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[Entrepreneur Guillaume Morand stands in front of the minaret he had built in Bussigny, Switzerland. ] Anita Greil

Entrepreneur Guillaume Morand stands in front of the minaret he had built in Bussigny, Switzerland.

When the referendum passed, the ban on the construction of new minarets instantly became Swiss law, but the government didn’t define exactly what constitutes a minaret. The law simply bans the construction of new ones. A parliamentary report outlining the issue before the vote says a minaret can exist without a mosque and without any religious function. Indeed, one of Switzerland’s four existing minarets is a free-standing structure not attached to a mosque.

Mr. Morand, a Lausanne native who does not actively practice any religion, decided the day after the vote to build his minaret.

It took Mr. Morand’s workers half a day to raise the 265-pound minaret up four floors and over the lip of the roof. He then installed two 500-watt spotlights to light it at night.

“Thank you for restoring my faith in Switzerland,”Read more at online.wsj.com
 

Did you hear the one about the broody Iranian?

Funny woman.  Thanks to another cool Iranian - my Twitter buddy @negaratduke - for drawing this to my attention.

Time to play

See Ian Bogost’s invitation below.  Fun for all the family.  Post your suggestions here or on Ian’s site.

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How to Blurb Hegel

Behold this wonderful endorsement on the old Hackett edition of Hegel’s Introduction to the Philosophy of History:

It suggests an amusing party game for philosophers (or academics of all kinds): devise the most subtly derisive quip possible for a given book.

(thanks to Mark Nelson)

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