On June 7, 2001, President George W. Bush signed legislation to disperse $1.35 trillion dollars worth of tax cuts over ten years. Formally known as the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001, it was the first piece of major legislation W passed as President.
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So it has arrived. The dreaded heatwave season.
I was an October baby. I was born outside Boston, brought into the world as the leaves were turning and the frost was coating the ground at night. Continue reading
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After making a serious flub and mangling American history for all to see, you would think that a person would keep quiet, and you know, maybe let the story just fade into the ether without further comment or display of utter, complete asinine commentary. But, well, that wouldn’t be the Sarah Palin that we all know and love. No sirree. The Sarah Palin rule of thumb is to stick to your story no matter how silly, and hope all the magical beans and dumbfuckery that exists on Wikipedia will carry you through the embarrassing irony of speaking wrongly about historic America while you have the Constitution emblazoned on the side of your bus of miraculous stupid.
Paul Revere would like to have a word. Continue reading
Hey. Remember Star Trek? Remember how that show introduced us all the concept of warp engines that were powered by antimatter? We just got closer to making that a reality. Continue reading
Have political-sex-scandals always been this much fun, or is there just something about a Weiner joke in 140 characters or less? I’m going with the latter and I have a feeling you will too.
We all remember how it started – the simple, almost-scandalous-but-not-really tweet seen ’round the world. That, my friends, was just the beginning. Since the original tweet, Twitter has been all … a-twitter on the issue.
Stephen Colbert wanted to get in on the fun so much, he tweeted his butt cheeks! Continue reading
An ex-boyfriend of a woman who is accused of aborting their baby is putting up quite a fuss, and doing it quite publicly.
Greg Futz of Alamogordo, NM put up a billboard of him holding an outline of an infant in response to his belief that his ex-girlfriend aborted his child she was carrying. Talk about a bitter ex! Continue reading
Let me tell you something about newsrooms. I don’t care if it’s network television and radio, a small-market cable-access station, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, the LA Times, Newsweek or the Star. Every newsroom in the nation is staffed with people who have the brains of twelve year old boys. Continue reading
Scientists at Northwestern University are using federal stimulus funds to test a magnetic tongue ring they hope will allow paralyzed patients to move their wheelchairs by shifting their tongues. Thankfully someone else is slutty for science (nerds). Via NY Times.
In a press conference full of tears, regret, and abject humiliation, Anthony Weiner has admitted to conversing with and sending several lewd pictures to six women via Twitter and Facebook, some dating back as far as three years ago.