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OK, I found him, what do I win?

These pictures were taken by me with my cell phone @ JFK airport the night we dropped Dylan off to head for Cairo.

I couldn't resist myself.

The Perfessor

I'm a heroist, don't look it up, it is a term that I coined to describe my outlook on life. I feel that if Heroes did not exist that we would have created them. Well, not only do heroes exist, but we did create them as well. I love the Greco-Roman mythology, and the Norse Mythology as well (I enjoy others but I am more familiar with those). Perhaps this is why I was so drawn to comics when I was younger, and why those stories have stayed with me for so long.

Anyways, one of my favorite stories is about Prometheus, the Greek god who stole fire from his brethren and gave it to man. As punishment for his crime, Prometheus was chained to a rock for all eternity and had his liver torn out by a vulture every day only to have it grow back every night.

I recently came across this webtoon by Mark Weinstein that examines all of the humorous elements of this story.

Turn on the news (Faux if you must), and all you see is anti-Muslim rhetoric about the Mosque (that is not a Mosque) at Ground Zero (that really isn't ground Zero), and talking head after talking head spewing forth the most heinous bile venom about how they have no right to put up their cultural center that close to Ground Zero. Then people wonder why there is an increase incidence of violence against Muslims.

I know that we have the freedom of speech here in this country, but something about not being able to incite a riot or violence against others comes to mind. Well, thank goodness there is someone like Stephen Colbert who can put this stuff in perspective for us....

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I'm the Deputy Democrat Registrar of Voters in my hometown, so voting is something of a serious issue to me. Needless to say, when Walt showed me this story, it simply made me shutter. Apparently in Harris County, TX, there was something of a small blaze that destroyed the county's entire inventory of 10,000 electronic voting machines still burned.

Houston Fire Department spokesman Patrick Trahan said arson investigators were at the scene of the fire, but no cause has been determined.

The three-alarm blaze started about 4:15 a.m. at the football field-size warehouse the county uses to store its election equipment. Firefighters extinguished the flames about four hours later.

No injuries were reported.

The county’s voting machines, including eSlate equipment, were stored at the nearly 27,000-square foot facility, county officials said.

Early voting begins Oct. 18. Election Day is Nov. 2.

You can read more about this story here, or view the video after the jump.

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I so totally can't stand Glen Beck, and I make it a point to never (if at all possible) watch this ass-hat's program. However, I do so enjoy when Jon Stewart so expertly skewers Beck, as he did the other night on The Daily Show.

Seriously, you would think that anyone who spends more than five minutes watching Beck's verbal vomits, could clearly see that he is not only a tool, but that he contradicts himself.

Don't believe me? Watch the clip after the jump, and see...

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Yeah, we do so love vampyres, xombies, and werewüves over here at Cuppacafe, but when we discovered this little "Shakespearean" gem, we very nearly wet ourselves...

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