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http://www.theonion.com/articles/ma...ign=Default:1:Default&recirc=fantasy-football

Man’s Fantasy Football Team Names Over Past 5 Years Depict Slow Descent Into Madness

CHICAGO—Competitors in Yahoo! Sports Fantasy Football league Super Bowl Shuffle expressed concern Thursday about the mental state of league member Evan Reeves, whose choice of team names over the past five years reportedly paints a picture of a man gradually descending into utter madness. “When we first started out a few years back, Evan just called his squad Butkus’ Dick, but his name choices these last few seasons have been increasingly unsettling,” fellow virtual manager Jay Steiner said of Reeves, 29, whose unhinged team names have since included “The Widening Gyre,” “What Does GOD Fear?” and “PLAGUEPLAGUEPLAGUEPL.” “I haven’t seen this guy since college, but judging from his behavior, he appears to be entering into some kind of bizarre state of irreversible derangement, all while actively participating in our friendly 12-team keeper league. It’s pretty disturbing to watch someone plunge into the darkest chasms of lunacy before your very eyes, plus all those Bible passages are really starting to clog up the message board.” As further evidence of Reeves’ ongoing slide into full-blown psychosis, Steiner noted that this year the deeply disturbed individual drafted Baltimore Ravens quarterback Joe Flacco in the first round.
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The Arab Spring is going really well! :rolleyes(2):

About the ONLY good thing is that is coming out of this is that.......

....the koran isn't a substitute for a Bill Of Rights

.....nor a caller of unity and peace

.....nor is political Islam worth two piles of crap as a form of modern government.
 
That's fantastic.

We might make homoerotic jokes about the sport - well... sports entertainment - but those guys are as macho and masculine as things get. For him to have that sort of peer support is huge.
 
JohnnyHolmes said:
Is that a joke?

It's only slightly less gay than MMA.
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TheCountofMonteCristo said:
somehow Korea will find a way to blame Obama for this
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I blame hopeychange for doing exactly what he did in Syria- playing it as badly as he ever possibly could, thereby destroying American credibility with any side in both conflicts, and leaving the US with no ability whatsoever to influence events.

By doing nothing against the "coup", but by talking up the Muslim brotherhood at the same time, he has made BOTH sides feel hostile to the US, and feel betrayed. He is the worst FP president in modern history. Probably even worse than carter now.
 
I think expecting a simpering speech to serve as "foreign policy" was titanically stupid, but that's what he does. It's why around the world now, factions or nations hostile to the US or to the west act with impunity, knowing that hopeychange is physiologically incapable of articulating, let alone defending, American interests. When the world knows that the American president has ceded hostile parties the field to act as they wish, they will engage in all kinds of damaging actions and he won't do a thing about it.
 
World's most obvious spy?

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2394616/Thai-villagers-hold-Google-Street-View-worker-hostage-accusing-government-spy.html

Villagers in Thailand held a Google Street View worker after suspecting he was a government spy.

About 20 residents in the remote Sa-eab village in Phrae province blocked the marked Google car on Tuesday after becoming convinced the worker was surveying for an unwanted dam project.

The Google worker, named as Deeprom Phongphon, was only believed after swearing in a Buddhist temple that he did not work for the government.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ge-accusing-government-spy.html#ixzz2c8xZ4jhE
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link is broken, but I will try to find you an article by Carl Zimmer in the NYT. It suggests that a major evolutionary jump for humanity came from, wait for it...........

Monagamy

Once men stuck around and started hunting and foraging for their offspring, the extra calories allowed for increased brain size, which is our main advantage over every other species on the planet.

how do you like them apples, traditional marriage-bashers?
 
Actually the primary evolutionary leap forward occurred as a result of agriculture. Hunting and gathering incurred an opportunity cost that resulted in the opposite of what you suggested: not enough calories.

It was the result of vast increases in food production and surplus calories that provided humanity with the additional time and energy expenditures necessary to implement sedentary living, design cities, and have the arts and sciences flourish as a result of not requiring all of their labour to be devoted to food production.
 
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