Posts Tagged ‘Thing’

Open thread: The worst thing since the last thing that was worse than Watergate

In case you missed it: Jon Stewart blows the lid off Benghazirama: Tweet This Post

Malicious Focus Group Convinces Marketers Cinnamon Mountain Dew Is The Next Big Thing

PURCHASE, NY—Following the saboteur antics of a prankster focus group that reportedly convinced company officials the drink was not only palatable but delicious, PepsiCo announced Thursday the launch of its new Mountain Dew CinnaBlast beverage. The Onion Tweet This Post

Picking Thing Up From Apartment Floor Rescheduled For Thursday

DANIA, FL—Stating that things are “just really crazy right now,” local man James Kinter told reporters Monday that an appointment to pick up an object from his apartment floor would have to be moved to Thursday. The Onion Tweet This Post

Picking Thing Up From Apartment Floor Rescheduled For Thursday

DANIA, FL—Stating that things are “just really crazy right now,” local man James Kinter told reporters Monday that an appointment to pick up an object from his apartment floor would have to be moved to Thursday. The Onion Tweet This Post

One more thing Republicans could not have anticipated …

When the Republican-inspired sequester caused cuts in cancer treatments, in jobs for the blind, in scholarships for children whose parents were killed in war, in Head Start programs—the list goes on and on—Republicans barely made a peep. But now that their sequester is hitting regular people—apparently defined as healthy, sighted, civilian and well fed—in the [...]

Is There Such Thing As Too Much Evidence?

It’s possible that every inch of Copley Square was captured on camera in the moments after the Boston Marathon bombing. But it wasn’t due to some Big-Brother network of municipal cameras. It was the cameraphones. In the hours and moments after the attacks, perhaps the largest crowd-sourced investigation ever began, with the FBI receiving a [...]

Income inequality: Why cutting Social Security is the last thing we should do

On Tax Day, the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities compiled their top 10 charts related to federal taxes. Two really stand out. Tweet This Post

Will Calhounism doom DOMA? And is that a bad thing?

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Open thread: Sequester, schmequester, it doesn’t mean a thing

Except for, you know, when it does … Tweet This Post