The Bizarre History of 10 Common Sayings

#10. "Rule of Thumb" Now Means: A common or ubiquitous benchmark. As in, "The rule of thumb is one part tonic to four parts gin." Most say it came from ... 17th century English Judge Sir Francis Buller, who allegedly ruled that it was A-OK for a husband to beat his …

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Nostalgia :What were favorite cartoons as a child?

Ahh, I remember when waking up bright and incredibly early on a Saturday morning was the highlight of my week. It was only day I would drag myself out of bed willingly to run into the living room and watch my favorite cartoon shows.  I didn't realize until recently that my  …

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Warning Signs of INSANITY (8 things you didn't know)

  During my second or third week of in-patient treatment for drug addiction and alcoholism, one of the doctors told me I was insane… I was suffering from insanity.  My time there had really sucked up until that point… I couldn't sleep, I was constantly pi …

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A Photo Gallery of The Art of Getting (Too) Drunk

  Every once in a while Very often we some people (I can't do it anymore) just don't know when to stop.  There's more;

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Native American performers/entertainers/actors/writers/producers past and present.

What is the current state of native peoples in today's media outlets compared to the "good ol' days". Have the images of native peoples in modern media (in all its venues) helped or hindered the fight for native equality.

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Why Democracy is not Working - The difference between our values and our leaders' values.

Given teh central role that democracy is supossed to play in our lives, Im always concerned that 99% of the people I talk to tell me that virtually none of our political, entertainment or business leaders share their basic values.

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POLLS (3) Evaluating the Right Wingers..!

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What Are you really - Conservative, Socialsit, Facist or Communist? How to figure out your actual Political makeup!

This tool is about the best indicator I have seen of how 3 dimensional our political views are, and how a Communist, capitalist and centrist can have the same basic government and social structure despite widely different state economic and social goals. Another key point is t …

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Did we not listen to Orwell's 1984?

The British author George Orwell, best known for his anti-authoritarian works Animal Farm and 1984, was a soldier in the International Brigades supporting the Anarchist/Socialist Spanish Republic during the Spanish Civil War.  Orwell meticulously documented his first-hand o …

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Politics 2011: Whihc guy is going to puish those who caused the economic crisis?

Its 4 years since the economic "crisis" began. We got rid of a president widely seen as part of the cause with his experiments in trickle down economics.

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