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Bye Marvel, It Was Nice Knowing Ya

Just heard of Disney’s plan to buy Marvel comics for $4 billion. I’m very skeptical of how Disney will handle Marvel as a brand. I’m hoping they don’t water it down. I guess we should have all seen this coming as Stan Lee gets older and older though. Buzz Lightyear vs. Sabre Tooth FTW!?!

Looks like [...]

I Still Can't Decide, Can I See It In A Blue

I grew up Roman Catholic but am on the market for a new religion. Luckily for me I stumbled upon this Religion chart, let’s compare shall we…

[via the atlantic via joseph sunga]

Born In The USA

THERE! Can everybody stop with the crazy talk and focus on real issues now. Thanks in advance.

[via yahoo news]

Boo

Bob Iger recently went on record saying that Hulu, the online video streaming site that does not charge and makes money on advertising, could one day charge for content. Disney co-owns Hulu with NBC Universal and News Corp. He sites some stats about how much people are willing to spend on content, “$5 an hour [...]

Now That's What I Call Moonwalkin'

Today 40 years ago the Apollo 11 mission successfully put 2 Americans on the moon. Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were the lucky 2 to touch down while Command Module pilot Michael Collins orbited above. I watched a couple shows on the moon landing on the history channel over the weekend. Space always trips me [...]

Weeeeeeeeeeak

Just read a report that the famed Sears Tower in Chicago will be renamed to get this, Willis Tower after the London based financial services company Willis Group Holdings. I hate when places sell their soul and change their name for starters but to a foreign company!? Super weak. If they ever try to rename [...]

Greentacular

Greenpeace members climbed up Mount Rushmore and dropped this banner off the side today. It calls out President Obama on global warming. While I get and mostly agree with the points made by groups like Greenpeace and PETA, I think they shoot themselves in the foot by doing huge stunts like this. I applaud the [...]

Loopholes So Big You Could Drive A Semi Through 'Em

GE. General Electric. Yes you know the fabled American brand. I love America, you love America, we all love America and our top notch businesses that we have here. Until you read articles like THIS. The Washington Post shows some of the awesome loopholes that corporations like GE are using to get Federal money with [...]

VOTE! VOTE! VOTE!

Don’t forget to vote today if you’re in California. Ok so you got Barack in now’s not the time to stop voting.

B.O. First 100 Days, Results

Head on over to Barack’s Site to check out what he’s been up to for the last hundred days in office. There’s a map of the entire country, scroll over each state to see what he’s done so far to help “change” it. Now the site is paid for by the Democratic National Committee so [...]

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