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Join us every weekday morning at 9am (ET) and weekend morning at 10:30am (ET) to talk about current news and our boring lives and to make fun of LaEscapee! If we are ever running late, it’s PhilJD’s fault.
This Day in History
Breakfast News
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Income Inequality Emerges As Key Topic To Avoid In 2014 Elections
Citing the recent failure to increase the federal minimum wage and the continuing struggles of the country’s shrinking middle class, political strategists reported Monday that income inequality has emerged as the most important topic for politicians to avoid in this year’s upcoming elections.
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White House Sends Obama To 3-Day Management Seminar At Washington Marriott
Armed with newly acquired strategies on team leadership, effective communication, and workplace sensitivity, President Barack Obama returned to the Oval Office this morning after spending the past three days at a management seminar, White House sources confirmed.
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Ukrainian-Russian Tensions Dividing U.S. Citizens Along Ignorant, Apathetic Lines
According to a poll released Monday by the Pew Research Center, the escalating conflict between Russia and Ukraine has left Americans sharply and bitterly divided along ignorant and apathetic lines, with the nation’s citizenry evenly split between grossly misinformed and wholly indifferent factions.
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Poll: 56% Of Voters Say Country Better Off Than It Was 4 Eons Ago
With many respondents saying the country has made notable strides during that time, a poll published Wednesday by the Pew Research Center revealed that over half of American voters believe the United States is better off now than it was four eons ago.
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G7 Unable To Get Deposit Back On Shipment Of ‘G8 Summer Getaway’ T-Shirts
Shortly after suspending Russia’s membership in the exclusive coalition of industrialized nations, the United States and the six other wealthy nations that compose the newly renamed Group of Seven reportedly found themselves unable to get their deposit back on a set of “2014 G8 Summer Getaway” T-shirts they had ordered for the body’s scheduled summit in June.
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Must Read Blog Posts
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Newly Engaged Couple Receives Incredible Outpouring Of Insincerity From Family, Friends
John Kerry Poses As Masseuse To Get Few Minutes With Putin
Obama Spends Another Night Searching Behind White House Paintings For Safes
China Hires NYPD to Advise on Repressing Protests
New Study Finds Employee Morale Drastically Improves After Watching Coworker Throw Fit
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The Daily Wiki
Satire is a genre of literature, and sometimes graphic and performing arts, in which vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held up to ridicule, ideally with the intent of shaming individuals, corporations, government or society itself, into improvement.[1] Although satire is usually meant to be humorous, its greater purpose is often constructive social criticism, using wit as a weapon and as a tool to draw attention to both particular and wider issues in society.
A feature of satire is strong irony or sarcasm-“in satire, irony is militant”[2]-but parody, burlesque, exaggeration,[3] juxtaposition, comparison, analogy, and double entendre are all frequently used in satirical speech and writing. This “militant” irony or sarcasm often professes to approve of (or at least accept as natural) the very things the satirist wishes to attack.
Satire is nowadays found in many artistic forms of expression, including literature, plays, commentary, television shows, and media such as lyrics.
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Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
Good satire comes from anger. It comes from a sense of injustice, that there are wrongs in the world that need to be fixed. And what better place to get that well of venom and outrage boiling than a newsroom, because you’re on the front lines. ~Carl Hiaasen
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Breakfast Tunes
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Stupid Shit by LaEscapee
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