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We can all learn something from the life of internationally acclaimed recording artist Deuter. After a near-fatal auto accident in the early 1970s, Deuter found his way back to the piano and flute melodies he enjoyed so much as a boy while living in a cage suspended high above town square tied to an aging dragon’s tail. It was here that Deuter learned the importance of mastering one’s impulses. Deuter discovered the best sound came from his piano when it was backed into a tight corner and he and the instrument were draped in heavy, dark fabric, the lights were off and everyone drove at least 80 miles away and left no forwarding address. When his 1987 double album, Sunrise 8000, was released in America, local municipalities set loose teams of wild dogs to hunt down Deuter and...
Features a cut-away view of a Cactus-Man Costume from many decades ago.
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Very simple. Naturally, it’s forbidden thought. The solution to these many problems – from the budget deficit to crumbling infrastructure, from mass joblessness to income inequality, from environmental degradation to educational shortfalls — is to raise taxes on the rich and to use that money to get the United States back on track and advancing toward the future. And there are clear justifications for doing so, from practicality to fairness. Though many multi-millionaires fancy themselves self-made men (and women), the truth is that they all have profited from investments that American taxpayers have made over the decades, and even centuries. For instance, President Dwight Eisenhower’s inter-state highway system enabled companies to move their goods more cheaply; President...
For far too long the Democratic Party leadership has supported policies that have screwed blue-collar Midwesterners as much as any Republican policies have — after all, remember that the repeal of Glass-Stegal got more than 90 votes in the U.S. Senate and was signed into law by a Democratic president. Instead of constantly asking ourselves, “What’s the matter with these silly Midwesterners?” we should probably be asking, “Why the hell isn’t our supposed center-left party looking out for all workers’ interests?”
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If it still has a wooden handle, it gets my vote.
Today we learned the horrible news that the fifth and final playground in town had been burned to the ground. No one saw anything. It being winter, children are afraid to go near playgrounds for fear of disillusionment. They always want to believe the playground is a happy, fun place rather than the pile of cold metal, leftover wood parts and obscene plastic animal heads it is.
So we can’t blame them.
And it being the very depths of economic depression no one can afford to rebuild any of them. The rubble can’t even be cleared. So now residents show up dropping off their awkward, hard to classify garbage items. The lots are filling up with broken tropical fish tanks and waffle makers.
“If American workers are being denied their right to organize when I’m in the White House, I will put on a comfortable pair of shoes and I will walk on that picket line with you as president of the United States.”
— Barack Obama, quoted by Slate, while making a campaign speech in 2007.
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When you stare into the eyes of a giant land cat, what are you seeing? Strength? Worry? Pure Natural Instinct? It is a creature of undeniable power and – due to man’s overreach – incredible vulnerability. Simultaneously at the top of the food chain and next on the extinction list.
If we could peer into their minds, through the power of advanced 3D holographic technology, however briefly, we’d be exposed to a familiar yet altogether foreign world. Fractals, designs, tessellations, those posters of expensive sports cars on fire – all pale to the inner secrets of a Lion.
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But I imagine the Brain of a Lion is filled with a thousand unsorted recipe cards and an ever-growing, ever-spinning, ever-lasting buzz saw.
My idea in it’s most basic terms: Parking Meters, but bigger.
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The rapport was so casual that Stewart even said it felt like they should be sipping lemonade on a porch.
Rumsfeld responded that Stewart was just unused to folksy conversation because Americans in the heartland — but not on the coasts — are that affable all the time.
“Yes, Stewart responded. “On the coasts we just curse and have gay sex. That’s all we do”