TOO FAR? At the 2008-2009 Methuen High School Invitational, high school wrestler Nathan Gioacchini took on a then-unknown Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. The final score of the match was was 15-3, with Nate the victor.
Naturally, looking back, he called it “A great win for America!” So what other way to celebrate this hindsight success than to score the footage with “America: Fuck Yeah” from Team America: World Police.
On this day in 1973, the World Trade Center’s Twin Towers opened.
A look back on the 40th anniversary of buildings: then and now.
The traditional national news media covered the story. Every day authorities provided updates. Yet this never rose to the level one might expect for an unfolding tragedy with all the elements of “if it bleeds, it leads.”
Why didn’t this one reel us in? Was it simply Super Bowl week? Did we write it off as “The South?” If this were Long Island or Southern California, would we have cared more? Did we just feel too helpless, like there was nothing that we could possibly do? Were we scared we’d tune in at the exact second they told us the boy was dead, or sexually abused, or beaten, or eaten? Was it simply boring, all the “action” having taken place before most of us were aware of it?
Or, and this may be it, was Jimmy Lee Dykes just too crazy for a real-life villain, two steps over the acceptable level of derangement we require?
BREAKING: Hostess going out of business. Do not stock up on Twinkies — they do not last forever, that’s a myth. More details on the closure here.
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Due to Ham Rove’s timely passing, I am announcing that Colbert Super PAC is shutting down effective immediately. During this time of mourning, we ask that you respect our privacy, and more importantly, the privacy of our money. It wishes to stay out of the public eye, so please don’t go trying to find it. Rest assured, you won’t. We have a really good lawyer. I am a man of faith. I believe that Ham Rove in a better place now… and so is the money. I hope you have faith as well, because that’s all you’re ever going to know for sure.
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Well, the United States was a grand experiment.
Last one out, shut the lights! (MUCH MORE, CLICK HERE)
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The America that allowed slaves DIED. The America that said a woman’s vote wasn’t as relevant and important and useful as a mans DIED. The America that legislated that two people of different races falling in love was an offensive abomination DIED. So today, another version of America is dying. The America we knew is terminal. It is not dead yet but the tides of change cannot be quelled or quieted or filibustered or bullied away. America is changing -– just as it always has, just as it was meant to.
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Pot activists, women, HIspanics, Asian-Americans, the LGBT community, Massachusetts, the 47 percent: the 11 Biggest Winners of the 2012 Election.
2008 was historic. 2012 was conclusive. This is a different America now.
The only thing that can make our official Election Day drinking game more fun? OK, maybe your candidate winning. But also this awesome list of presidential trivia, which will make all your friends say, “Golly, friend, you’re smarter than Adlai Stevenson!”
When was the last time a sitting vice president was elected? How did Warren Harding die — high blood pressure or murder? How did Millard Fillmore get his odd name? Find out below.
