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Hey, Tea Bagger! Government Can’t Do Anything Right, Eh? Well, Read This

This was written by an anonymous someone at Something Awful and was reproduced a few months ago on Reddit. Here’s the whole wonderful thing: This morning I was awoken by my alarm clock powered by electricity generated by the public power monopoly regulated by the US Department of Energy. I then took a shower in the clean water provided by the municipal water utility. After that, I turned on the TV to one of the FCC regulated channels to see what the National Weather Service of the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration determined the weather was going to be like using satellites designed, built, and launched by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. I watched this while eating my breakfast of US Department of Agriculture-inspected food and taking the drugs which have been determined as safe by the Food and Drug Administration. At the appropriate time as regulated by the US Congress and kept accurate by the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the US Naval Observatory, I get into my National Highway Traffic Safety Administration approved automobile and set out to work on the roads build by the local, state, and federal Departments of Transportation, possibly stopping to purchase additional fuel of a quality level determined by the Environmental Protection Agency, using legal tender issed by the Federal Reserve Bank. On the way out the door I deposit any mail I have to be sent out via the US Postal Service and drop the kids off at the public school. After spending another day not being maimed or killed at work thanks to the workplace regulations imposed by the Department of Labor and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, enjoying another two meals which again do not kill me because of the USDA, I drive my NHTSA car back home on the DOT roads, to ny house which has not burned down in my absence because of the state and local building codes and fire marshal’s inspection, and which has not been plundered of all it’s valuables thanks to the local police department. I then log on to the Internet which was developed by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Administration and post on freerepublic.com and Fox News forums about how “SOCIALISM in medicine is BAD” because “the government can’t do anything right.” Yes, Virginia. Libertarian = Tea Bagger = Dumb Ass.

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Hey, Tea Bagger! Government Can’t Do Anything Right, Eh? Well, Read This

Tegan And Sara Describe Their ‘Awkward’ Co-Writing On Sainthood Song

‘It’s one part of our career that we actually do alone,’ Sara says of their first collaborative songwriting effort. By Joel Hanek, with reporting by Jim Cantiello Tegan and Sara have been a band for 14 years and six albums, but there’s one thing the twins have never tried until new album Sainthood : writing music together. On the just-released record, produced by Chris Walla (Death Cab for Cutie, the Postal Service), the duo put their heads together to write “Paperback Head.” Sara summed up the process with one word: “Awkward.

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Tegan And Sara Describe Their ‘Awkward’ Co-Writing On Sainthood Song

Owl City: The Biggest ‘Total Nobody’ With A Top 10 Single And Album

‘The past six months have been nothing but a colorful, brilliant blur,’ Adam Young tells MTV News of his ‘Fireflies’-driven success. By James Montgomery Owl City Photo: Universal Republic Adam Young has stocked freezers at Hy-Vee , loaded packages for UPS, and built shipping containers for Coca-Cola.

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Owl City: The Biggest ‘Total Nobody’ With A Top 10 Single And Album

The Monocle Gesture

STYLE BUZZ : Here is a hand sign to use against your pretentious friends and acquaintances. We learned about this at the BuzzFeed lunch table today during a conversation about blueberry soup.

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The Monocle Gesture

Screamo Band Covers the Postal Service

A screamo band called Confide covers the Postal Service song “Such Great Heights.” Because of my endless fascination with the postmodern music genre known as crabcore , I just had to post this.

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Screamo Band Covers the Postal Service