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Top job, jackass.

Usually, I like the British.

    mal a droit – adjective

          lacking in adroitness; unskillful; awkward; bungling; tactless

I got mad, Oprah-like skills

The Declaration of Independence

read by Matt Damon

Tonight is the night The History Channel pushes my reading list onto the world.  What?  You didn’t realize I have that kind power?  Oh you!  You’re so cute with your little dumb face! 

Seriously, you should join the millions and millions and millions that will be tuning in to see what I have been listening to for the past week.  Howard Zinn’s Voices of a People’s History of the United States is the basis for The People Speak and it will air on the The History Channel tonight at 8/7 c.

Follow Voices of a People’s History on Twitter!

p.s. I tried to embed the video into the post but either I'm an idiot or the History Channel is.  I'm voting it's them and not me.

Domino Effect Interwebbing

As I previously mentioned, I like to compare blog rolls when I happen upon a new blog.  Usually, this results in what I like to call Domino Effect Interwebbing, I move from blog to blog to blog to blog judging, scanning, sometimes reading, sometimes laughing, finding shit I should have written about but didn’t think of it, judging, sometimes subscribing, developing crushes on writers I’ll never meet, sometimes commenting, learning stuff and of course, a bit of judging. 

More often than I would like, this type of interwebbing becomes a black hole and sucks my entire day into its abyss.  If light did survive in a black hole, it would create a bright side in all the really great sites I find and actually enjoy and add to my stalk roll blog roll so it wouldn’t really be a waste of a day.  But the cynic in me points to the laundry I have to wash twice because I let it sit in the washer so long it began to smell like rotten, mildewed ass.  Before you ask how or why I know what rotten, mildewed ass smells like, stop and be glad you have not experienced it and leave it at that.  What?  You can’t leave it at that?  Okay, close your eyes, well maybe you should keep them open so you can read the closest combination of olfactory assaults I can come up with that create rotten, mildew ass and then close your eyes and enjoy the sensation.  Imagine a poorly run/cleaned nursing home (are there any others?) full of chair ridden old people, add to that a sweaty boy of about 6 years old that has been desperately trying to ‘hold it’ for the past hour because the big boys are finally letting him play army, add to that the worst house you have ever seen on Hoarders and then, piss your bed and roll around in it.  When you all of those delightful smells mixed together it roughly equals rotten, mildewed ass.  Fortunately for me, Gain Apple Mango Tango takes it right out!  But I digress.

As I was judging another blog’s lame design due mainly to its lack of a public blog roll, it occurred to me that I do not have a public blog roll.  As I am not a hypocrite, at least not intentionally, I am here to rectify that omission forthwith. 

I go through bouts of reading mania where I can’t get enough of one particular blog so I keep going back to it over and over and over again until I have read every single word the author has ever posted.  Eventually, the obsession with that blog wears off and I have to find a new one but these are the one I am currently frequenting the most right now:

Indexed – an amazing site with tons of diagrams illustrating everything from the Easter Bunny, to love to queens to xenophobia.  The best part for me is the author/artist is a girl!

20 Something Bloggers – this is a blogging community for 20 something bloggers (duh) that I belong to and it provides hours of entertainment because it’s not just 1 blog but lots!

xkcd – ‘a webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language.’  I am in used to love a physicist so this sweet combo of afore mentioned nouns is a no brainer.  

Peter De Wolf – I just started reading this guy and I can’t get enough!  Sadly, I don’t remember dominos that took me him but I am greatful none-the-less.  He writes word doodles, random shit and open letters to his Future Wife.  I bet Peter gets more marriage proposals than Russian mail order brides.  Hell, even I want to be FW, but I’m holding out for him to ask me.  I’m traditional like that.

Rebel Reports – site of independent journalist, Jeremy Scahill.  He’s a brilliant, angry liberal.  What’s not to love?

Huffington Post – a brilliant liberal news source.

Dad Gone Mad – I was hooked with his tag line “Living proof that it takes balls to go nuts’.  This dad is humorously insightful.  Read his post, The Problem With Music, and you’ll see what I mean.

p.s.  I made the mAzing image at the top of this post.  I am super impressed with my sweet graphic design skills, amateurish and self taught and all.

Stolen, for you, by you.

I used tax dollars to steal today’s word.

    klept toc ra cy - noun, plural cies

        a government or state in which those in power exploit national resources and steal; rule by a thief or thieves.

Can you find a government this word does not pertain to?

Glass bed?

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