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The Pen is Mightier than the Sword

Only Disney’s lawyers can defeat terrorism now.

You probably shouldn’t watch this if you love Mickey Mouse or Palestinians.

References:

Via Cartoon Brew
Also: Palestinian Media Watch

April Fools Posts

This April 1st caught me unawares. I was thinking “What the hell is wrong with everybody?” as I read post after ridiculous post. The Dutch government will revert to tables? The freakin’ Dutch? Next the Ajaxian and some bullcrap about whitespace used as a timer to replace/augment onload? Then I bought this thing about Google printing and mailing you your emails. “Isn’t that amazing? Google is getting their hands into everything. Then I read a little further, and realized I am an idiot:

Gmail Paper is made out of 96% post-consumer organic soybean sputum…

Damnit. I was ready to sign up.

But be careful about Google’s April Fool celebrations… remember GMail and its gig of storage were thought to be a prank.

Benjamin Franklin, Advice to a Young Man on the Choice of a Mistress (1745).

June 25, 1745

My dear Friend,

I know of no Medicine fit to diminish the violent natural Inclinations you mention; and if I did, I think I should not communicate it to you. Marriage is the proper Remedy. It is the most natural State of Man, and therefore the State in which you are most likely to find solid Happiness. Your Reasons against entering into it at present, appear to me not well-founded. The circumstantial Advantages you have in View by postponing it, are not only uncertain, but they are small in comparison with that of the Thing itself, the being married and settled. It is the Man and Woman united that make the compleat human Being. Separate, she wants his Force of Body and Strength of Reason; he, her Softness, Sensibility and acute Discernment. Together they are more likely to succeed in the World. A single Man has not nearly the Value he would have in that State of Union. He is an incomplete Animal. He resembles the odd Half of a Pair of Scissars. If you get a prudent healthy Wife, your Industry in your Profession, with her good Economy, will be a Fortune sufficient.

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