Today's Internets.

The Philip Experiment: "In September 1972, the Toronto Society for Psychical Research, along with poltergeist expert Dr. A.R.G. Owen, set out to accomplish one singular objective: To create a ghost. Not conjure, or contact. They wanted to explore the Tibetan Buddhist concept of tulpas, or “thoughtforms,” the practice of “willing” tangible forms into existence using our own innate mental energies."

Is "Obama" coming to take your guns?  Probably not, but with stuff like this you can see how people might think so...  

DHS Contractor Apologizes For Selling Shooting Targets of Children // Current TV: "A company which received $2 million dollars from the DHS has apologized and taken offline “no more hesitation” shooting targets which depicted pregnant women, children, and elderly gun owners in residential settings as “non-traditional threats,” following an online uproar. “Offensive” cut-outs depicting pregnant women, gun owners in residential settings removed from website. As we first reported on Tuesday, Law Enforcement Targets Inc. (LET), a Minneapolis based company that has received almost $2 million dollars in contracts from the Department of Homeland Security over the last three years, recently began selling cardboard cut-out targets designed to desensitize police to “non-traditional threats,” including pregnant women, mothers in school playgrounds, and little boys, as well as elderly gun owners in their homes."

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Look! Robert DeNiro And Sylvester Stallone In The Ring As Rival Boxers In Grudge Match - Bleeding Cool Comic Book, Movies and TV News and Rumors: "Sylvester Stallone and Robert DeNiro in costume and battered-up make-up comes from the set of Grudge Match. The film is a comedy about two over the hill boxers in a one-last-time storyline."

evellios: lilytrann: chroniclesofness: ... - Fall Down Seven Times, Stand Up Eight.: "evellios: lilytrann: chroniclesofness: shawna-marie: Supposedly there is a new study that says when a woman sits on a guy’s hips when he is doing a chest press, his testosterone rises up to about 97.9% which promotes strength and muscle growth. 

I would not mind helping, at all.  

Oh we doing this for sure.  

his testosterone rises up to about 97.9% 

oh so that’s what we’re calling it now"

Texts From Last Night: "(630): no, but he did start crying. who the fuck is 30, covered in tattoos and crys about an ex? get your shit together, man."

FML: after supporting my girlfriend,…: "Today, after supporting my girlfriend for over a year in her endeavour to lose weight, excercise more, and eat better, my now-slender girlfriend dumped me. Because now she "can do so much better". FML"

Fascinating hypothesis.  On the face of it, makes sense.

Your Parents Were Middle Class Because Of The Soviet Union: "...So how was my father and other families like ours able to do it?  How can a  first year college professor purchase a home with two kids, and a stay at home wife? 

BECAUSE OF THE SOVIET UNION. 

Let’s be honest, my father didn’t have any competition. From the end of WWII to the end of the Cold War, The United States did not have any strong foreign competition, and we can thank the Soviet Union for that. The Soviet Union, and the Iron Curtain that it cast over Europe, was the best thing that ever could happen to the United States. With little foreign competition, many U.S companies were able to form strong labor unions, the government could apply trade protections, and we also had an embargo with the entire Soviet Bloc including China, Russia, Ukraine, and half of Germany. My father’s main competition was mostly with other European-Americans living in the United States..."