Wednesday, November 4th, 2009
I ordered a Whopper with large fries, and like all fast food restaurants, large fries come with the ridiculously large soda you keep in the fridge and finish within two days. The Burger King I went to had a public soda dispenser (i.e., not behind the cashiers). The following appeared on my plastic soda cup:
HAVE [...]
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Wednesday, October 21st, 2009
Politics as usual, via YouTube:
Obama Speech: 7 Lies In Under 2 Minutes
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Sunday, September 13th, 2009
This is a gem from a time when the trivial and superficial were frowned upon, when thought and creativity were encouraged, especially in children, when morality, however you defined it, was the center of your life, when society valued freedom, the individual, where asceticism and social justice complemented each other in the minds of youth, [...]
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Saturday, August 29th, 2009
From Lew Rockwell:
This online video game, consisting of hundreds of thousands of players who control every aspect of the game universe, just suffered an enormous economic calamity due to player-controlled bankers engaging in Fractional Reserve Banking. When players got wind of the fraudulent practice, it prompted a bank run. Minus central banking, Fractional [...]
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