"No Surrender" vs. Lapel Pins

Yes, I'm a Deepak Chopra fan and thus less than human to many.

One aspect of modern politics has been to elevate the trivial to unheard of heights. By any serious measure Barack Obama holds an enormous advantage over John McCain. His poise, intelligence, and charisma are undeniable, as is the utter ruin of the right-wing agenda with which McCain has many ties. Unfortunately, Obama forgot to wear a flag label pin, and now one has to worry about trivialities reigning supreme once again. Critics have grumbled for decades that soundbites have surpassed informed knowledge of the issues. Taking advantage of this slippage into superficiality, the Republicans turned "liberal" into a dirty word, intelligence into elitism, and the smiling vacuousness of a Ronald Reagan into a prime key for electoral success.

Ya can't argue his logic.

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Trivia: How Microwave was Invented

First microwave oven?
Some things are "accidents". Like Post-it® notes.

In 1945, while working on a radar project, Percy Spencer’s chocolate bar in his pocked melted while standing in front of a magnetron. This led to the development of the microwave oven.

After he noticed the chocolate bar, Percy put popcorn kernel [sic] and raw egg in front of the magnetron to confirm that microwaves could cook food.

ZOMG!!!1!! How can anyone survive without microwave ovens? Although I love cold pizza, zapping/nuking is even better.

Is this pure shit? How many Africans have stoves let alone microwave ovens. We take so much fucking stuff for granted.

Via Neatorama.