Daily Briefs: BREAKING: Books banned; Internet folk outraged
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From the comments:
Hoogie Boogie Land Chamber of Commerce says:
We’re anticipating an influx of new immigrants from the U.S. come John McCain’s victory in November.
If monkeys dressed up like Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke: The government is taking over loan guarantors Bernie Mae and Fannie Mac. In boring terms of boringness, they’ve been placed in a conservatorship by the Federal Housing Finance Agency, a new financial arrangement which will firehose the shareholders like war widows at the Republican National Convention, and the details of which would obviously be easier to follow if they were acted out by monkeys wearing little suits. Because how cute would that be? This cute:
MONKEYS WEARING MONOCLES, you guys. Sometimes when I click on the “play” button of an embedded video, the status bar on my attention span runs out faster than the status bar on the video, but when you dress up monkeys like little spies and mad scientists, you have my full fucking attention. If they’d had monkeys teach me algebra in high school, I might have finished high school and earned a diploma instead of getting my GED while I was in the slammer. Thankfully, the Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary has a more enlightened policy w/r/t cute monkey pedagogy, which is why I can now diagram sentences. After the jump, Esquire magazine misuses science, and some self-righteous Internet folk get outraged about book banning. Click here, or on this adorable picture of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac:
