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Barack Obama Is Your New Bicycle »

Barack Obama emailed your dad and told him how great you are. (via ideas)

“Have we learned nothing from the tragic events of 1998, when, under the watch of President Morgan Freeman, this nation was plunged into chaos, and hundreds of millions of people died at the hands of the deadly Wolf-Beiderman space rock?”

Google Trends: Mixing Your Fat Tuesdays And Your Super Ones »

Some of the hottest Google search terms today?

  • 6: “where do i vote”
  • 12: “what is super tuesday”
  • 23: “fat tuesday”
  • 31: “am i registered to vote”

Now, be nice to those polling place volunteers when you show up tomorrow to cast your ballot and it turns out that Super Tuesday is not a thing like Fat Tuesday.

Flickr: Obama ‘08 Vote Change by xtrapop

“I believe my party has gone astray. I think the Democratic Party is a fine party, and I have no problems with it, in their views and their philosophy.”

—John McCain, oddly enough

An ingeniously self-fulfilling plan

Calvin: When I grow up, I’m not going to read the newspaper and I’m not going to follow complex issues and I’m not going to vote. That way I can complain when the government doesn’t represent me. Then, when everything goes down the tubes, I can say the system doesn’t work and justify my further lack of participation.
Hobbes: An ingeniously self-fulfilling plan.
Calvin: It’s a lot more fun to blame things than to fix them.

“Seriously, John Edwards: Please stop interrupting the candidates.”

“To be tired of American politics at the moment is to be tired of life.”