It’s official.  Al Franken has quit his talk radio gig with Air America Radio to challenge Minnesota Republican Sen. Norm Coleman in 2008.
Franken expects his years in New York to be an issue in the campaign but has had a ready line as he promotes himself to Minnesota audiences: “If I do run against Norm […]

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TubaPants reader Stephen Johnson passed along this little nugget of nonsense…
Acclaimed Sci-Fi novelist David was flushing out the gas tank of his broken-down Excalibur car with water. He noticed there was some leakage on the ground, and decided to test the flammability of the puddle by throwing a lit piece of paper into […]

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A guerrilla marketing campaign by the Cartoon Network for Aqua Teen Hunger Force caused a terrorism scare in Boston today.
Strange LED devices were found all over the city prompting the bomb squad to detonate one, and put authorities on high alert. The devices (pictured above) depict Moominite characters from the show, and presumably were […]

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