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      Haha. And it's ok to laugh, because Jericho is actually alive and well.

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        I know that all deaths diminish us is some way, but some less than others

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          I'm not naive enough for this to have evoked a true WTF reaction in me, but can't think of a better place for this:

          Seattle company copes with backlash on $70,000 minimum wage

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            A Tea Party Republican state representative in Michigan has tried to implicate himself in a fake sex scandal involving a male prostitute in order to draw attention away from his real affair with a fellow tea party lawmaker.

            The newspaper reported that state Rep. Todd Courser (R) asked an aide to send an anonymous email to GOP activists alleging that Courser had been spotted having sex with a male prostitute "behind a Lansing night club."

            The ruse was reportedly designed to create false accusations that were so over the top that Courser's affair with fellow freshman lawmaker Rep. Cindy Gamrat (R) would seem "mild by comparison," according to the paper.

            The whole thing was blown up, however, by secret audio recordings created by Courser's then-aide, Ben Graham, and obtained by the Detroit News. Graham reportedly refused to send the email and was later fired. (The newspaper noted that Gamrat also recently fired an aide, who was unwilling to help hide the relationship between the two legislators.)

            In the recordings, according to the Detroit News, Courser could be heard asking Graham to send the anonymous email and get "nasty about it" with accusations that the lawmaker was addicted to porn and was a "sexual deviant."

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              The way Teabaggers' minds work is too weird for words.

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                The Microsoft Office World Championships

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                  beak wrote: I'm not naive enough for this to have evoked a true WTF reaction in me, but can't think of a better place for this:

                  Seattle company copes with backlash on $70,000 minimum wage
                  It's not a WTF, but an intriguing one instead. The Purple Cow, ex-of this parish, once said he experimented with something similar, i.e. letting his employees set their own wages. IIRC his experience paralleled the two positions laid out in that article with some outside his firm saying similar things to the Seattle companies clients whosupposedly claimed
                  “What’s their incentive to hustle if you pay them so much?” Brajcich said they asked.
                  and instead it worked out much more along the lines of the reported experience of the employee
                  Several employees who stayed, while exhilarated by the raises, say they feel a lot of pressure. “Am I doing my job well enough to deserve this?” said Stephanie Brooks, 23, who joined Gravity as an administrative assistant two months before the wage increase. “I didn’t earn it.”

                  Capitalists are so wedded to the carrot and stick approach that they forget they are not dealing with donkeys.

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                    I am still slightly dazed from last night, when Radio 4 informed me of the following...

                    "The rugby player Brian Moore's ideal festival features a flotilla of boats sailing up and down the Thames, carrying iconic works of art."

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                          At first I thought that was David Beckham

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                            ursus arctos wrote:
                            Promoting a healthy and positive lifestyle:

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                              Hwee?

                              https://twitter.com/hendopolis/status/632915227303149568

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                                oh god.

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                                  Lumme!

                                  http://www.suffolkgazette.com/news/morris-dancers-blind-footballers-brawl/

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                                    I think that's a spoof paper, Guy. Note the "Face of John Wark to Appear on £5 Note" story in the sidebar

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                                      The story itself is not so WTF as my reaction to the headline was.

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                                        Man bites dog was already done.

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                                          ad hoc wrote: I think that's a spoof paper, Guy. Note the "Face of John Wark to Appear on £5 Note" story in the sidebar
                                          Ok. It's a fair cop.

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                                            Nah, its legit. Eric Gates is going to be on the tenner and all. Am I the only person here who reads the news?

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                                              Unfortunately, the latest elite prep school rape scandal doesn't really surprise me at all.

                                              Prosecutors say Labrie took his victim by surprise, before she could resist or flee, and raped her repeatedly. He is charged with three counts of aggravated felony sex assault, endangering the welfare of a child and using a computer to lure the girl to the on-campus meeting.

                                              Labrie denied having intercourse with the girl, telling police that they partially disrobed, kissed and touched. He also acknowledged putting on a condom. Labrie said the freshman girl was eager to have sex, but the aspiring divinity student said he had a “moment of self-restraint” and stopped.

                                              “He stated it was a moment of ‘divine inspiration,’” detective Julie Curtin wrote in her affidavit.

                                              Asked why the girl would lie about having sex with him, Labrie said it’s a “great source of pride for younger students” to have sex with seniors.

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                                                EU Commission responds to a corporate watchdog's request for information on tobacco lobbying in trade talks.

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                                                  Husband of Jelly Bean CEO Runs Over Guest with Tank

                                                  The LA Times reports that on Saturday "the husband of Jelly Belly’s chief executive accidentally crushed a man to death with a World War II-era tank during a reunion on the family’s property in Fairfield, Calif."

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                                                    It truly is the end of days.

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