Speeches, Videos, and Articles Worth Watching and Reading. How We Got Here.

Dredd Scott v. Stanford Supreme Court Case. Slave sues for his freedom.
Background of Dredd Scott
Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address

Abraham Lincoln’s Assassination

The thirteenth amendment abolishing slavery after the civil war

The fourteenth amendment gives rights to former slaves. Over rules Dredd Scott
The fifteenth amendment allows people to vote regardless [...]

Election Day Links!

Erection for the Election (cyanide comic)
Polling place finder
Free stuff if you vote… here’s the list
Your voting rights. Just in case someone tries to hassle you.
Funny election day pictures
Many videos giving different reasons to vote

Saturday’s Links

Homestar Runner’s classic Halloween cartoons
How to talk to cops when you get pulled over
Opera’s vote gets switched by a hacked voting machine. Nothing wrong with going old school here. These machines have bad written all over them.
Jimmy Kimmel Roasts Sarah Silverman
American Stories, good op-ed
Palin hurting McCain… surprise surprise
Buy 25$ restaurant gift certificates for 2$
Sound [...]

Tuesday’s Links. Come and get ‘em.

How to escape a raptor (xkcd comic)
Perry Bible Comic wins again
Lieberman abandoning McCain?
Another huge rally for Obama (over 100,000 in Denver)
Currency crisis in Europe.
Age of Paranoia
Pretty cool 70+ guy playing on a college basketball team.

Don’t act like you’re not excited for this.

Bill Cosby is out [...]

Saturday’s Links

Just in time for Halloween. Get your own live glow in the dark cat.
NYTimes endorses Obama.
Will Farrell as Bush on SNL endorsing McCain.
For those of you who are interested in photography and fonts this is your link
1000 mph car.
creepiest picture you will see all day.
A Song for Mrs. Palin:

Apparently, [...]

Links For the Midweek

Palin Fraud Case Building. Used State Funds to Have Children Travel.
Awkward Scrabble (xkcd comic)
India’s going to the moon.
Jon Stewart’s quiz on what a real American is. Sarah Palin cries somwhere.
“Academic Salaries” (web comic, but real and kind of sad)
Law makers want a domestic spy agency?
In case you’ve forgotten, a list of all the [...]

Links for your Monday

More to come:
Bollywood takes on outsourcing
Sarah Palin has facebook.
Random musical recommendation. Some fun brit pop.
How much sleep do you really need? There’ll be a study next week refuting this.
Health of the candidates is being withheld from the public.
Recession…
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Creepy Halloween Ad:

I hate nature video: