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Faint Expectations: Gross Domestic Product

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Making cynicism fun for the whole family. Citizens Against Government Waste. Humane Society of the United States. August 01, 2006. Now we’re exporting ignorance and our ability to be easily offended. By Chase Edwards Cooper on 8/01/2006. I can't even dignify all of this with a coherent response. August 02, 2006. Habitual writer, C-SPAN junkie, avid reader, baseball addict, and hockey nut. When it comes to politics, I evaluate each issue for what it is instead of sheepishly calling myself "liberal" or...

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Faint Expectations: Brain Freezes Before Road

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Making cynicism fun for the whole family. Citizens Against Government Waste. Humane Society of the United States. August 05, 2006. Brain Freezes Before Road. A few days ago my friend John (not his real name, but I’m protecting his reputation which might be sullied if anyone ever discovered that he associates with someone like me) and I were discussing what might have happened to several of the slow classmates that we had in high school following graduation. An excerpt from a WJAC report:. Niple’s persona...

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Faint Expectations: When the Pigs Become Their Masters

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Making cynicism fun for the whole family. Citizens Against Government Waste. Humane Society of the United States. October 20, 2006. When the Pigs Become Their Masters. At the conclusion of George Orwell’s. The aforementioned idealistic view is nothing more than idealism, considering my recent discovery that there might be more pigs in transition in the real world than previously thought. The first person, who shall be referred to as A, asked the second person, B, if and how B handles patrons who come to ...

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Faint Expectations: Strike Two

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Making cynicism fun for the whole family. Citizens Against Government Waste. Humane Society of the United States. August 14, 2006. Bud Selig, Major League Baseball Commissioner (. There are a few things that puzzle me. Why did kamikaze pilots wear helmets? Why do criminals on death row have their arms swabbed with an alcohol pad before having their lethal injection administered? How has Major League Baseball stayed afloat considering how much they despise their fans? While statistics are, indeed, a recor...

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Faint Expectations: Goolags?

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Making cynicism fun for the whole family. Citizens Against Government Waste. Humane Society of the United States. July 27, 2006. Microsoft helps to block anti-government blogs in China; Google censors its search engine there; Yahoo! Turns over user information to Chinese authorities including two journalists who were eventually prosecuted. These stories have been in the news for several months, and more recently Amnesty International has released a report entitled. Microsoft, and Google. Are these nothin...

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Faint Expectations: Maybe the Lock Box is Green

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Making cynicism fun for the whole family. Citizens Against Government Waste. Humane Society of the United States. August 10, 2006. Maybe the Lock Box is Green. Perhaps it doesn’t really matter, though, because I can simply call myself an Al Gore-type of environmentalist. By that I mean one who talks a good talk, but when we get down to the substance of the issue, it’s apparently okay to do little more than talk. And yes, that’s the same Bill Mesler who has written for such liberal publications as. In tha...

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Faint Expectations: Fun with Screenshots

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Making cynicism fun for the whole family. Citizens Against Government Waste. Humane Society of the United States. July 31, 2006. The main reason that I’m doing it is because news links have a tendency to disappear after a certain amount of time. The secondary reason is that perhaps these screenshots will be able to bypass any search engine filters that might be used in other countries. By Chase Edwards Cooper on 7/31/2006. I didn't even know we could link to screen shots. How interesting! August 01, 2006.

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Faint Expectations: Thug Life

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Making cynicism fun for the whole family. Citizens Against Government Waste. Humane Society of the United States. August 17, 2006. Note: I’m out of town at present and must use an iBook G4 for all my online work. Any complaints regarding formatting abnormalities in this post should be directed at the folks at Apple. (Any complaints regarding viewpoints should continue to be directed at me.). Tell that to Ignacio Ramos and José Compean. They stopped Osbaldo Aldrete-Davila from bringing over 800 pounds of ...

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Faint Expectations: Nobody Saw Me Do It

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Making cynicism fun for the whole family. Citizens Against Government Waste. Humane Society of the United States. November 07, 2006. Nobody Saw Me Do It. I thought about it a few times earlier this year, especially after reviewing the names on the ballot. Today, I actually went through with it and didn’t vote. Yes, such an abstention was perpetrated by me: a person who is certified to teach political science; a person who watches C-Span as often as others watch. More recently, I’ve found myself disgusted...

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Faint Expectations: Academic Freedom, Part II

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Making cynicism fun for the whole family. Citizens Against Government Waste. Humane Society of the United States. August 04, 2006. Academic Freedom, Part II. For this post, the primary focus is the idea of how far the term academic freedom can be taken, especially when the information being presented goes beyond the realm of being thought-provoking and enters the realm of factual inaccuracy. Oddly enough, he cited Russell Thornton’s American Indian Holocaust and Survival: A Population History Since 1492.