17 August 2011 Irrelevant stuff and snark: You can’t make this stuff up.

I am going to try out my academic year routine, sort of.

First about just “making stuff up”

PWN’D, but too dumb to realize it:

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Either these women are this guy’s relatives, or he is rich:

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Politics
The e-book version of Christine O’Donnell’s book was labeled as “fiction”. Really.

WASHINGTON — Failed U.S. Senate candidate Christine O’Donnell is out with her new book “Troublemaker,” which she describes in the introduction as “a political memoir slash campaign diary slash position paper slash rallying cry, with an emphasis on the slash.” In an email to supporters, she promised the book would offer “the real, raw story of my life.”

But the e-version of her book says she’s making it all up.

The copyright page of her book in both the Kindle and iTunes versions state that O’Donnell’s memoir is, in fact, a novel.

“This is a work of fiction,” reads the disclaimer. “All of the characters, organizations and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.”

Rick Santorum’s campaign might be labeled as fictional also. But he is out there saying things like this:

At a campaign stop in Iowa this weekend, former Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA) doled out a frothy mixture of revisionist history about what it was like to be alive in the late 1700s:

Our founders said [our] rights were given to us to pursue life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Does anyone here believe that first inalienable right is as whole as it was at the time of our founding? It isn’t. Does anyone believe that our freedom is as whole as it was at the time of our founders? It is not.

This is what infuriates me about conservatives: when they say “our” they mean, well, white guys. Seriously; remember that our black neighbors were slaves at that time and that females couldn’t even vote. More free? Really? Conservatives have a very narrow view as to what an American is. (hat tip: Billy Dennis)

Republican Debate

Some troll put this on the Mitt Romney facebook wall. It is pretty funny though.