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• Lenovo’s wireless Multimedia Remote with Keyboard sneaks out for retail

  
  Family Learning Center — Authority: 164
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• Michele Bachmann Is Welcome At Tea Parties [Shes In A Position Of "Rising Influence"]

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  Michele Bachmann Is Welcome At Tea Parties The Republican congresswoman from Minnesota has become a rare elected official to be embraced by the vocal small-government activists. And the GOP is taking note. Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) has been criticized by both parties for hyperbole, but has developed a rapport ...
  3 days ago

• Utopia

  
  Sad Poems — Authority: 125
  Heavy books with no words in them. Her skin like tissue paper. Her thighs as fragile as glass ornaments. In all that snow I dug a space for him. Hurt that he thought I wouldnt do that. Elastic ribbons on empty boxes. The future on idle. As we sped to our epilogues. Pale doormen usher us in to shinier cages. Bigger ...
  4 days ago

• * Sports books mad libs

  
  Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf — Authority: 130
  The current issue of ESPN the Magazine includes a cute feature titled “Over the Top,” by Amanda Angel. The Greatest Story Ever Told is about Jesus himself, but these days you’d half-expect to find that title on a bookseller’s spoets shelves. A quick glance at the genre  shows many true, real and ...
  5 days ago

• wow, fantastic, superb, fabulous,mischievous, flabbergast, ugly NEWS: What joke? Nuclear Bomb Researchers Accidentally Blow Up Building - Science - Gawker

  
  EverestUncensored — Authority: 133
  wow, fantastic, superb, fabulous,mischievous, flabbergast,  ugly NEWS hahahaha what a joke ?“On December 16, 2009, Shock and Detonation Physics Group researchers heard a loud unusual noise from Technical Area 15, Building 562 after firing a shot from a large-bore powder gun (LBPG)…. the researchers conducted ...
  6 days ago

• America Under Barack Obama; An Interview with Nat Hentoff

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  "I try to avoid hyperbole, but I think Obama is possibly the most dangerous and destructive president we have ever had." — Nat Hentoff Nat Hentoff has had a life well spent, one chock full of controversy fueled by his passion for the protection of civil liberties and human rights. Hentoff is known as a civil ...
  1 week ago

• Exclusive New Interview w/ David Simon, Creator of The Wire

  
  Hobbies Fun & entertainment - fun-entertainment.marc8.com — Authority: 165
  David Simon is responsible for one of the greatest feats of storytelling of the past century, and that’s the entire five-season run of the television series The Wire. If that sounds like hyperbole to you, then you haven’t watched the show yet.
  1 week ago

• Rock-solid nebulous hot air

  
  Notes from underground — Authority: 119
  Hat-tip to Father David MacGregor of Contact Online Weblog: Ugandan Church faces totalitarian liberal activism. for pointing to this piece of rhetorical gobbledegook. Anglican Mainstream: Ugandan Church faces totalitarian liberal activism. : Chris Sugden Evangelicals Now Janaury 2010 The pressure on the ...
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• Dems: GOP takeover just hyperbole

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  From NBC’s Domenico MontanaroDespite a noxious political environment and recent retirements of members in competitive districts, the man tasked with trying to stave off a terrible midterm election for House Democrats says his party will hold onto a majority. Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Chairman Chris ...
  1 week ago

• DSM-V: Suggestions for Change

  
  World of Psychology — Authority: 560
  With the recent announcement (PDF) by the American Psychiatric Association of a one year delay for the latest revision of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (the DSM, as it’s known), a new round of commentary and articles have appeared questioning the usefulness of the DSM. The DSM is used ...
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• U.S. Chamber Armed with Hyperbole, Bad Metaphors to Defeat Employee Free Choice Act

  
  SEIU — Authority: 142
  With the U.S. Senate rounding the final stretch of health care reform, attention is turning to the Employee Free Choice Act as a legislative priority in 2010. And the U.S. Chamber of Commerce will be right there to try and stop it . From Roll Call today: Business lobbyists will focus on others they may be able to ...
  2 weeks ago

• Hyperbole: Pussy rules the world

  
  expletive undeleted — Authority: 103
  FIRST of all, this is a bit of a long one, so if you’re not interested in 17th century poetry, punk rock fanzines, bleepy sounds from Sheffield, Badly Drawn Boy, bossa nova or cats, you’d probably best fuck off now. I promise I won’t be offended.Now, are we all sitting comfortably?The best ideas are often [...]
  2 weeks ago

• Annals of Hyperbole: Chace Crawford Edition

  
  Ephemerist — Authority: 114
  The opening volley of WWD’s piece on Chace Crawford:  “Like the Pussycat Dolls or Brad Pitt, Chace Crawford is the kind of perfect human specimen that should be freeze-dried and put in a time capsule so that, in several thousand years, whatever manlike species can get a sense of just how good we looked.”  ...
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• UTLA Teaches Great Vocab Word: “Hyperbole”

  
  Cato @ Liberty — Authority: 739
  By Neal McCluskey A good vocabulary word–and an important rhetorical device–that kids should learn is “hyperbole.” Indeed, in Los Angeles the teachers union has apparently thought illustrating hyperbole so important that the union has, on its own time, provided a crystal clear example of it. Talking ...
  3 weeks ago

• Redbox is Killing the Entertainment Industry

  
  [CinemaRatty] Latest Articles — Authority: 170
  Holy hyperbole, Batman! Economic study claims that $1 DVD rentals have cost the entertainment industry over $1 billion. FOR MORE DAILY MOVIE GOODNESS, VISIT FILMJUNK.COM !
  3 weeks ago

• Laundry List of Republican Lies Over Health Care

  
  kavips — Authority: 119
  I thought it would be an interesting exercise to pour over this weekends news and pull out any blatant falsehoods being offered to anyone with a microphone, by the outdated, obsolete, and obstinate Republican Party… Some Democrats comments showed up as well. Republicans objected because, according to Sen. Michael ...
  3 weeks ago

• Copenhagens hot air may help cool the planet

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  The Copenhagen climate change summit, which starts tomorrow in the Danish capital, is proving an irresistible draw for world leaders. More than 100 will attend, as well as 16,500 delegates, officials, advisers, royalty — including the Prince of Wales — and legions of journalists. Whether or not the summit achieves ...
  3 weeks ago

• The July 4th Mission

  
  The Starting Five — Authority: 428
  As your friendly neighborhood fitness consultant I have a confession to make. It’s a terrible one but it’s also a sign that I know how to solve a problem once I discover that I have it. Because If I see Tony Atlas one more god damned time. Just yesterday I woke up, put my cold feet on the floor, and then ...
  3 weeks ago

• Bombardment!

  
  The Midpoint — Authority: 120
  Hugo Chavez is planning to hurl some lightning bolts at the clouds : CARACAS, Venezuela – Hugo Chavez says he is starting to “bombard” clouds now that Cuba has provided Venezuela with cloud-seeding help in an effort to produce rain and alleviate the effects of a severe drought. The Venezuelan president ...
  4 weeks ago

• Who is behind Pharmageddon 2012?

  
  AdPharm Blog — Authority: 147
  YouTube video, part of the Pharmageddon 2012 self-promotional campaign for communications agencies Friday Morning and S+R communications. click here to visit the site To see all of the ads from this... Read the rest on AdPharms blog!
  4 weeks ago

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