Chargrilled are selling a “No plus Rohypnol equals yes” T-shirt.
It’s even available in children’s sizes - age 1-10 years. Nice.
Send your complaints to: contact@chargrilled.com and press@chargrilled.com
Fifteen Charles Dickens Character Names Just Sitting in the Public Domain, Waiting for a Rapper to Appropriate Them
- Noddy Boffin (Our Mutual Friend)
- Sampson Brass (The Old Curiosity Shop)
- Mr. Brownlow (Oliver Twist)
- Serjeant Buzfuz (The Pickwick Papers)
- Canon Crisparkle (Mystery of Edwin Drood)
- Mr. Cripples (Little Dorrit)
- “Young” Dick (Oliver Twist)
- Alfred Jingle (The Pickwick Papers)
- Miss La Creevy (Nicholas Nickleby)
- Krook (Bleak House)
- Ham Pegotty (David Copperfield)
- George Radfoot (Our Mutual Friend)
- Bill Sikes (Oliver Twist)
- Dick Swiveller (The Old Curiosity Shop)
- Wopsie (Great Expectations)
Christian fourth grade textbook, tries to explain electricity but just gives up
This is an excerpt from a fourth grade science textbook for private Christian elementary schools. As with many of the explanations in the book, it starts off asking a question like “What is electricity?”, only to give up and say “Fuck it, it’s magic from God that humans will never understand.”
A GLOBE OF HEAVEN by Salman Rushdie
A celestial globe is a portrait not of the earth but of the skies. Globe-makers in many cultures - Persian, Mayan, Indian, European - over the centuries made many such representations of the heavens and of the pictures they saw there, working in papier-mâché,…
I have worked with investors for 60 years and I have yet to see anyone — not even when capital gains rates were 39.9 percent in 1976-77 — shy away from a sensible investment because of the tax rate on the potential gain. People invest to make money, and potential taxes have never scared them off. And to those who argue that higher rates hurt job creation, I would note that a net of nearly 40 million jobs were added between 1980 and 2000. You know what’s happened since then: lower tax rates and far lower job creation.
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