What do memes mean?

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ea5XfEVGRkk&w=480&h=390] How did this  cat get over 40,611,000 hits on Youtube? More ominously, is this feline a threat to humankind as it propagates itself through cyberspace?  It’s time to investigate the debate over the nature ...

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Killer Clowns

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKlpMxBX-jk&fs=1&hl=en_US]     Counterculture Consumerism Woop, Woop!  I wrote this cuz juggaloz are realz.   They’re havin babies and burying babiez.  Cradle 2DA grave. Juggalos are more than a family.  It’s like Juggaloz are its own ...

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You want another rap?

Neopatrimonialism and Dominant Party Stability: The 2011 Ugandan Elections A video recently uploaded to youtube features the Ugandan president, Yoweri Museveni, at a conference podium addressing an audience. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7ZZKPxsGDo&fs=1&hl=en_US] “I can even give you some ...

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Theoretically Speaking

Behold beautiful Colorado and its magnificent autumn aspens! Actually since moving here I haven’t made it out of my house very much. I took this picture at the end of peak color. There was a ...

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Zsolt

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qck2IF5w-yc&fs=1&hl=en_US] When it comes to talking to strangers at public pools I’m probably not the best person to give advice. Several years ago a man with a billy goat beard rolled by me in a ...

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The Zeitgeist at Ground Zero

____________________________________ Gaudi and the World Trade Center Time is a funny thing. It’s malleable. You can look back at an event in the past and reinterpret it in present day terms. Post 9-11 it’s not ...

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