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Post-Primary Dino-Extinction Update: Brontosaurus Romneii, Stumbling...

       Protestations from Struthiomimus Santorum notwithstanding, last night's primary results from Wisconsin, Maryland, and the District of Cretaceousness suggest that, like it or not, the...

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From Far-Right Front-Runner to Fossil Fuel: Struthiomimus Santorum Extinction...

                           Unable to deny the petroglyphs on the wall, Struthiomimus Santorum, considered by some to be the only true challenger to Brontosaurus Romneii, has "suspended" his quest for...

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CAPTAIN RESPONSIBLE FOR TITANIC DISASTER!

[a reprint of a classic diary for this anniversary date]Calls for the removal of Captain Barack Obama grew today, lead by papers controlled by William Randolph Hearst, after repeated reports of the...

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Updated! Dinosaur Extinction News: Stegosaurus Newtii "Suspending" Campaign,...

                                      Stegosaurus Newtii: Next Stop - the Fossil Record, but first, North Carolina...Word has reached us from the Delawarian plain that Stegosaurus newtii, once...

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Mitt's Very-Bad-and-Getting-Worse-Before-It-Gets-Better Week: A Limerick Salute

Things just won't fall into place for the presumptuous and presumptive nominee. Hell-hounds on his trail seek vengeance for the maltreatment of fellow canid, Seamus, and Mitt's living in a constant...

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Schadenfreude… Without the “Schaden”: Robo-Mitt Jubilant Over Latest Jobs...

Pandemonium erupted at Romney campaign headquarters as this morning’s Labor Department report revealed that:employers added a paltry 69,000 jobs to their payrolls last month, the fewest since May last...

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Dino-Extinction Paleo-Retrospective: Don't You Miss These Crazy Cretaceous...

It’s been a while since I wrote a dino-extinction diary. During the primary season, we witnessed the untimely (too late, rather than too soon, in this case) extinction of a number of GOPasaurs who...

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Dino-Evolution Update: How Cold-Blooded Were These GOPasaurs?

From BBC Science News comes news that dinosaurs, long assumed to be cold-blooded like their modern reptilian kin, could in fact have been warm-blooded.One of the strongest lines of evidence that...

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Schrödinger's cat Says Mitt Romney did not inhale during his non-relationship...

(Alert: This post contains material that might appear to be snark-like to those who lack an appreciation of the subtleties of Mitt Romney's capacity for non-linear, quantum truth, and ability to...

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Valuable Travel Advice From Famous People That Will Go Unheeded By Mitt

With Mitt about to embark on an international gaffe-a-thon for the next six days, it's only fitting that he consider the advice of those who've gone before, and whose perspective could spare him many...

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Dino-Extinction Update: OMG! They're Still Roaming The Earth!

It's been a while since we checked in with our creepy Cretaceous critters. I'm sorry to report that they're still roaming the Earth, causing no end of problems....

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Veepasaurs! Who Will Survive; Who's Teetering On The Brink Of Extinction?

Since we're apparently still faced with the dispiriting prospect of Brontosaurus romneii fumbling, stumbling, and bumbling his way to the GOP nomination, let's turn our attention to the vast (or...

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Governor Romney Proposes Outsourcing Democracy to a Secret Counsel Meeting in...

Boston, MA (Hydrant) - Governor Mitt Romney has proposed a new plan to improve government by outsourcing democracy to a secret counsel that would meet in a quite, private room at the Marriott Hotel,...

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Dick Cheney Endorsed Gay Marriage in 2009

It is sad to watch everyone jump for joy over the Presiden't's eventual realization that gay couples should have the same rights as everyone else.He didn't take this stance until now. Meanwhile the...

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Brewing Interest in Obama's Home Brew Comes to a Head - FOIA Filed - A...

President Obama's well known love of beer, especially his own White House home brew, has led to the filing of a petition on the White House website for the President to release the recipe, and now a...

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Fun Eisenhower Quote About Stupid People Who Attempt To Abolish Social...

Here's a fun photo one of my brothers sent me that is making the rounds on the tubz. I've tried googling these "Ohio Democrats" listed in the corner but don't find anything.  In case the photo is hard...

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Top 10 Celebrity Guidelines For 'Safer' Convention Fun and Avoiding Awkward...

As I hope most of you know, I like having fun just as much as the next fellow, and I certainly don't want to put a wet-blanket on any of the traditional good ole fashion American fun that goes on at...

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Fantastic News For Kossacks - Reading Is Good For Your Brain! Longer Hounddog...

Breaking News! Reading is good for your brain, increasing blood flow and bathing your brain in nutrients, oxygen, and others things believed to promote higher cognitive-emotional processing. In Why...

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Tragic Finding Crushes Dinosaur Cloning Dreams - Half-Life of DNA Molecular...

The hearts of paleontologists around the world sank, this week, as Morten Allentoft at the University of Copenhagen and Michael Bunce at Murdoch University in Perth, Australia, reported the tragic...

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Mesozoic Madness! Massive Post-Election Dinosaur Extinction Underway!

Paleontologists have long debated whether the dinosaurs became extinct in a sudden meteor-impact-like bang, or a stumbling, bumbling, drawn-out whimper. Recent findings show that it was a thrashing,...

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Mesozoic Madness Part "Duh": More Post-Election Extinction Updates!

As threatened promised in yesterday's Dino Extinction Update, our intrepid paleopundits have compiled another installment on the ongoing extinction of the hideous lifeforms who have been ravaging the...

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Mesozoic Madness Trifecta! Still More Post-Election Extinctions!

As documented by our intrepid paleo-pundits in Part 1 and Part 2, the Grim Reaper has had a busy few days culling craven Cretaceous lifeforms from our midst in the Great Right-Wing Mass Extinctions....

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Special Dino-Extinction Alert Featuring McCainasaurus Getoffamylawnii!

With the ascension of Obamasaurus Rex to the White Cave, the Cretaceous countryside is littered with limbic brains as the pandemic of exploding GOPasaur heads continues. Across the craton, lumbering...

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Bill O'Reilly says Jon Stewart is obtuse for thinking Obama voters are...

The sparky "bromance" between Jon Stewart and Bill O'Reilly took another sharp and sizzling turn Monday as O'Reilly lashed out at Jon Stewart for being obtuse, working with pinheads, and failing to...

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NHL lockout causing a surge of sex toy sales in Canada say retailers

Canadian hockey fans facing hard times due to the lockout of the National Hockey League are apparently turning to sex for consolation, say sex toy and lingerie retailers in Edmonton, who scored a 15%...

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US Government Shutting Down 'The Onion'

The Onion, a leading satirical publication branding itself as "America's Finest News Source," will soon be forced to cease and desist publication, in both print as well as Internet text and video. The...

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Culture of Vultures! Absurdity Today: Episode 30

We are back with the latest episode of Absurdity Today, formerly The Ironic News Report, with the independent news parody series hosted by political satirist Julianna Forlano. In this episode we cover...

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More [Limerick] Reasons To Say "Good Riddance, 2012"

[although 2013's not lookin' so hot either...]Mayan forecasts of doom were a bust Where's a prophecy people can trust? If the world's gonna end We will have to depend On some accurate facts! That's a...

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Dinosaur Extinction Update: Fiscal Fossil Follies!!

A new day dawns, and the Earth shifts beneath their feet of the already uneasy GOPasaurs. The Grim Reaper has been working overtime to keep up with the carnage, and it's not over yet, not by a long...

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GOPasaur Extinction Update: Griftasaurus Karlroveii

As reported in the New York Times and other reputable sources - and widely mocked elsewhere - Griftasaurus Karlroveii has concocted yet another plan to stave off extinction... or at least make some...

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Extinction Update: Brontosaurus Romneii (The Song Has Ended But The Malady...

          Seismometers across the continental plate reverberated as previously-thought-to-be-extinct Onepercentasaur Brontosaurus romneii emerged from one of his well-appointed caves to grace the world...

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GOPasaur Extinction Update: CPAC Fossil Follies!

GOPasaurs and GOPasaur wannabees, journalists, lobbyists, and hookers were joined by paleontologists at the Cretaceous Political Animal Circus (CPAC), proving once again that politics makes very, very...

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GOPasaur Extinction Update: Rewriting The Fossil Record

                                                        Actually, the GOP version is only about 6,000 yearsIt's not easy being green a GOPasaur. All signs points to their individual and collective...

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Stupid Republican tricks special edition: Florida accidently bans linking...

From our "see, this is why we can't have good things" department, citizens of Florida learn what happens when you elect morons to control state legislatures -they pass idiotic legislation.The Miami...

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Happy days are here again: Mitt Romney to headline New Hampshire GOP fundraiser

This just in from our "this is too good to be true" department - Mitt Romney may be on the comeback trail as Steve Peoples reports the announcement of an August 6 Mitt Romney New Hampshire...

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Tea Party Extinction Update: Release The Velociraptors!!

Explanations abound for the mass extinctions of slow-witted lumbering beasts that once roamed the earth only to find their skeletons incorrectly reassembled in the natural history museums of the world....

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Indiana considers decriminalization of marijuana

I just received this missive from Torquemadawg, saying that Indiana is considering decriminalizing small amounts of marijuana. This seems sensible to me. I pass it on here without...

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May God bless America, and all the other countries and peoples of the world

------ Satire Alert: Posts in Hydrant are intended to be humorous and sometimes sarcastic. Some parts of this post contain good natured self-deprecatory humor as a literary device and longer story...

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Is comparing Chris Christie to Tony Soprano stereotyping Italians and...

Credit: Photo Illustration by Jacqueline Mellow/The New Republic  --- Dats a nice house ya got dare Christie, what a shame if something were to happen to it. - The HoundDogio, aka The DaawwggsterThe...

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#mcconnelling - palooza

So ...I'm not new to this #mcconnelling thing. Jon Stewart's crew did a pretty bang up job of introducing the concept, and I have seen some pretty awesome ones already shared here at the Great Orange...

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Galactic oscillations around dark matter disk could cause 35 million year...

Breaking! -- Scientists have developed a theory that might explain the mysterious 35 million year extinction cycle that may have killed off the dinosaurs. According to a publication in Nature, "Dark...

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"Crashing the Estates: The Rise of Corporate Powered Politics and The Daily...

Every now an then a book comes along that not just changes your thinking about politics, but also the way you think about politics. Crashing The Estates: The Rise of Corporate Powered Politics and The...

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Graphic humor medley: dog cartoons, Joy Bahar video, giant python eating...

Huffington Post deserves the hat tip for noticing the new cover of The New Yorker is going to drive the Republicans absolutely bonko. Let me be the first to predict a "subscription cancellation"...

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Koch Brothers' net worth tops $100 billion!

David De Jong, of Bloomberg.com announces the news that the Koch Brothers Net Worth Tops $100 Billion as TV Warfare Escalates."Spread the word! Billionaires of lessor means take heart. Hope exists that...

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'My Cat From Hell' by Jackson Galaxy returns for 5th Season, sends out cute...

"Marking" tonight's premier return of the fifth season of "My Cat From Hell" on "Animal Planet," HuffPost reporter Lauren Duca speaks with Jackson Galaxy, whom she calls "the most famous cat...

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Dinosaur Extinction Update: Fossil Follies Special Edition!

Something's afoot in the land of GOPasaurs, those crass, craven  creatures who rumble across the craton, roaring and wreaking havoc, stealing our resources, despoiling our environment, threatening the...

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497 Chikungunya virus cases so far in 2014: What you need to know about our...

G, Mish-Mish, Kashi, Yeti and I are just six days away from our drive from Massachusetts to Florida so I've been reading up on dreadful tropical diseases that are creeping up from the Mexico and...

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True Tales of "Customer Rage"

Life in the service industry is rough. But hey, we live in the service economy so whaddyagonnado?See the "Customer Rage" survey as reported in USA Today for how we deal with customer service workers....

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The World According to "Duck Dynasty"

First of all, thanks A&E for unleashing these guys on us. No, really thank you. I mean it. They're like a right wing Kardashian clan. I needed that in my life. I really, really really did. Now that...

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Amazing talent here on Daily Kos

Here on Daily Kos we have this thing called the Kos Katalogue. It’s kind of our way of buying locally while supporting our fellow Daily Kos family at the same time. We have an incredible array of...

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