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conspicuous consumption

Tuesday, August 12, 2008

As if the iPhone on its own wasn’t enough of a consumer piece, how about the following application: Last week, an application turned the iPhone into a megaphone to proclaim: “I Am Rich.” That is the name of a downloadable program that promised to do nothing except signal to the world that its buyer was [...]

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this is, of course, from a man who knows about getting drunk

Wednesday, July 23, 2008

George Bush seems determined to stay clever and relevant: US President George W Bush has explained the credit crunch savaging US financial markets by saying “Wall Street got drunk”. “It got drunk and now it’s got a hangover,” Mr Bush said at a private political fundraiser in Houston, Texas. Good that he’s going with what [...]

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best youtube video ever

Tuesday, July 1, 2008

yeah. just like that.

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Those who do not learn from history are doomed to look very, very stupid

Wednesday, March 12, 2008

Tongodeon points out the Air Force’s fetching new slogan: Someone has clearly not been paying attention to history, even military history. That’s a direct translation of Germany’s Über Alles, which I’m not going to even provide a google link to because it leads to all sorts of racist retardness that might get people who read [...]

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