Dave Barry's Year In Review Up At Washington Post

--Read More In: Awards | DOH ! | Economy | Geniuses | Government

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WOW.

-Just Wow.

Spot-on analyses of the year's cavalcade of (frequently politician-dominated) buffoonery such as:

"As it becomes increasingly clear that the federal government's plan of giving hundreds of billions of dollars to dysfunctional companies has not fixed the problem, the government comes up with a bold new plan: Give more hundreds of billions of dollars to dysfunctional companies. Soon the government is in a bailout frenzy, handing out money left and right, at one point accidentally giving $14 billion to a man

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Posted by elburro on 12/31/08 | Comments (0) | Email to a friend |

NYT Thinks Economy Not Bad Enough Yet; Demands $4Gal Gas As Subsidy For Repainting Lenin's Portrait On Their Ivory Tower

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Apparently, the ONLY break we all seem to be getting in this rather crappy economic climate is ~$1.55/Gal gas.

BUT NO-OO-OOOO!

That's -Not Cool- with the NYT!

There aren't yet enough suburban Society Wives clipping coupons or Hedge-Funders trading in mega-yachts. Things don't need to get better, they should get Worse!

*Coupled with a sense of timing that would make (the inventor of the guillotine)^(Marie Antoinette's cake comment) look less ironic, their Man Ezra Dyer

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Posted by elburro on 12/29/08 | Comments (1) | Email to a friend |

Video: Acoustic 'Pork & Beans' With Tay Zonday and Brian Bell of Weezer

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Posted by elburro on 12/15/08 | Comments (0) | Email to a friend |

Natalie Portman + Hipster Yeti Up For Hot Chick With Douchebag Celebrity Couple Of The Year

--Read More In: Celebrity | Dating | Sweet! | WTF !?!

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This year brought somewhat relieving news that my beloved Natalie Portman is no longer dating a Hipster Yeti.

Even Better News is that she and her former beloved have been put in the running for Hot Chick With Douchebag Celebrity Couple of The Year by DB1 in the 2008 Douchies Awards over at HotChicksWithDouchebags.com.

Freaky Video After the Jump or no, I feel that this is the time for all good men and women to come to the aid of their country

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Posted by elburro on 12/15/08 | Comments (0) | Email to a friend |