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    • 24 Ratings
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    Surveillance: Who's Watching the Watcher-Watchers?

    JUNE 7, 2013 3:09PM

    By Daniel Rigney


    Topics: watcher watchers, who will watch the watchers, technology, politics, news, critical thinking, inquiring minds, curiouser, curious, danagram, daniel rigney, civil liberties, legalish, surveil, electronic surveillance, prism, fisa, fisc, fjc, aclu, nsa, domestic surveillance

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    • 21 Ratings
    • 2603 Views
    • 28 Comments
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    Democracy in Texas

    OCTOBER 23, 2012 12:34PM

    By Daniel Rigney


    Topics: civic soul, freedom of speech, first amendment, polis, politics, danagram, daniel rigney, democracy + texas, houston, racist vandalism, factoids, hate mail, stolen yard signs, election 2012

    • Editor's Pick
    • 11 Ratings
    • 1940 Views
    • 18 Comments
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    Dispatch from Houston: The Sikh Temple Vigil

    AUGUST 10, 2012 2:02PM

    By Daniel Rigney


    Topics: core values, culture of ignorance, houston + sikh, swirled world, candles in the wind, violence, danagram, daniel rigney, annise parker + vigil, houston, vigil, sikh temple

    • Editor's Pick
    • 3 Ratings
    • 960 Views
    • 8 Comments
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    Tastes a Little Like Cricket at the Café Insecta

    JULY 24, 2012 1:33AM

    By Daniel Rigney


    Topics: food/drink, ape diet, prosimian diet, bug diet, ancient ancestors + diet, ancient + diet, exotic bugs, bug juice, humor, gummi worms, all you can eat, insect café, science, science news, news, danagram, daniel rigney, insects + good source of protein, weight loss diet, nutrition, vegetarianism, insect diet, amazingly effective insect diet, tastes a little like cricket, paleolithic diet

    • Editor's Pick
    • 17 Ratings
    • 4123 Views
    • 29 Comments
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    Ten Republican Wars of 2012

    FEBRUARY 6, 2012 6:51PM

    By Daniel Rigney


    Topics: history bats last, republican war + twenty-first century, war on voting, market god, mom and pop capitalism, social darwinism, social responsibility, war on the poor, war on the middle class, republican class warfare, war on immigrants, nation of immigrants, war on islam, christianity + ku klux klan, anti-intellectualism, war against labor, voter suppression campaign, war on sustainability, war on non-renewable energy, carbon industry, anti-intellectualism, war on labor, disorganized labor, individualized labor, war on feminism, war on family planning, war on planned parenthood, war on the environment, republicans + guns + warfare, conservatively incorrect, daniel rigney, danagram, politics, ideology, economy, 2012 elections, cultural warfare, republican class warfare

    • Editor's Pick
    • 9 Ratings
    • 3948 Views
    • 16 Comments
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    Dispatch from Perry's (A)political Prayer Rally

    AUGUST 8, 2011 7:50PM

    By Daniel Rigney


    Topics: rick perry, the response, apolitical, (a)political, reliant stadium, christian contemporary, contemporary christian, charismatic, evangelical, fundamentalist, shallow south, call and response, machiavellian, prince of peace, rove, doctor dobson, aclu, first amendment, freedom from religion, oil patch, joel osteen, young evangelicals, houston, changing of the gods, august 6 2011, twilight zone, unconventional worlds, book of joel, emerging church, unitarian universalists, nonpolitical, non partisan, (non)political, daniel rigney, danagram, open call, for sale, belief/religion, comedy, family, environment, economy, feminism, gay/lesbian, fox in lamb's clothing, state religion of texas, official state religion, state administered prayer, state organized prayer, sadness of joy, burning city on a hill, congenital curiosity, perry watcher, perry prayer zone, fundamentalists and other evangelicals, praying for prayer, gullible birther, semi-secular, music, news, television, politics

    • Editor's Pick
    • 2 Ratings
    • 2318 Views
    • 9 Comments
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    Republican Anagrams 2012

    JUNE 24, 2011 12:26AM

    By Daniel Rigney


    Topics: anagramistan, rimshot the sitdown comic, red meat republicans, red meat conservatives, reddest of the red meat republicans, tea with that red meat?, fallon, frenemies, puns want to be free, word games want to be free, use without permission, attribution appreciated, republican, crab lineup, republicans, caliber puns, supreme court, prosecute rum, computer user, scores guns, democrats, curse songs, old rant dump, damn turd pol, rick perry, rick prayer, rick santorum, catkin rumours, iran must rock, republican anagrams, republican anagrams 2012, daniel rigney, danagram, open call, politics, comedy, satire, humor, internet anagram server, i rearrangement servant, wordie, scrambled words for breakfast, jumble puzzle, anagram puzzle, word puzzle, pun puzzle, houston chronicle, la piranhas, sarah palin, sharia plan, metro minty, memory tint, mitt romney, michele bachmann, i becalm henchman, red meat republicans, oral pun, a pol run, ron paul, rand paul, paul ryan, ayn rand, from the same pod, thanks for the memories, usual gang of idiots, mad magazine, colbert, daily show with jon stewart, go rachel maddow, msnbc, comedy central, wordies of the world unite, word nerds of the world unite, word nerds, steal this blogpost, word nerds of the world unite, danagram salutes comedy writers, conan o'brien, letterman, rice thresher+back page, earth certificates, jon huntsman, nut man, man nuts, letterman + squirrels, we report you decide, fair and balanced, satire, frenemies, brooke alvarez, onion news network, onn, the onion, wait wait don't tell me, paula poundstone, 'gram, encryption, retching wing, crew night gin, newt gingrich, television, news, gossip, 'gram, political amnesia, video, belief/religion

    • Editor's Pick
    • 5 Ratings
    • 1288 Views
    • 3 Comments
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    North Pool Meltdown: Santa Plans Move to Hong Kong

    MAY 17, 2011 1:50AM

    By Daniel Rigney


    Topics: commercialization of christmas, santa claus, mrs. claus, business satire, business parody, satire, parody, child labor, human rights law, corporate conservatives, executive christmas bonuses, intimate, salacious, tabloid television, tabloid media, inquiring minds, congratulations matthew and beloit grads!, christie claus, north pole, north pool, north pool meltdown, hong kong, china labor market, toy industry, toy workers, toy sector, unions, santa icon, santa meme, climate change, global warming, reindeer, reinbot, santa's elves, elf taverns, open call, danagram, daniel rigney, belief/religion, comedy, economy, business, fiction, gossip, science, technology, television, travel, xmasinc. xmas, xmas inc.

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