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Aztec Rexicon 06 - Baleful Bailouts

Baleful Bailouts

Did You Know?! Aztec Rex gets nervous too. This hurt him during the 7th Presidential election of the Maastrichtian Stage, when he lost to Rajasaurus.

October 7th, 2008 / paladinz / Tags: aztec rex, aztec rexicon, politics, katie couric / Trackback / Comments

The Onion Hacks Into Barack Obama's Inbox

Hackers recently found their way into Sarah Palin's Yahoo! email inbox (a report that has seemingly been confirmed by the McCain campaign). In the process, they revealed that Palin was indeed using private email for government work, which is deemed illegal.

Palin's email

Always quick to respond to current situations, The Onion quickly updated their site to claim they found Barack Obama's emails. (There are three pages; make sure to look at them all.)

Obama's email

September 18th, 2008 / paladinz / Tags: the onion, politics, satire / Trackback / Comments


Economists Warn Anti-Bush Merchandise Market Close To Collapse

A fine piece detailing the next economic crisis that will hit the US.

Pulled from Greg Mankiw's Blog.

September 17th, 2008 / Masakun / Tags: politics, economics / Trackback / Comments

Acceptance Speeches of McCain & Obama

We usually try to keep out politics here at Mediocre Minds, but I found these word bubble images generated by Wordle awesome.

John McCain:

Barack Obama:

Source: McCain, Obama

September 5th, 2008 / Binkley / Tags: politics, mccain, obama / Trackback / Comments

Aztec Rexicon 05 - A Philatelic Enquiry

A Philatelic Enquiry

Did You Know?! Aztec Rex would later find his American Philatelic Society card in a box of stamps he was examining the previous night?

(Also, he was interrupting!)

September 2nd, 2008 / paladinz / Tags: aztec rex, aztec rexicon, politics, philately / Trackback / Comments


It may be typical of the pro-Obama Dungeons & Dragons crowd to disparage a fellow countryman's memory of war from the comfort of mom's basement, but most Americans have the humility and gratitude to respect and learn from the memories of men who suffered on behalf of others.

From John McCain's official website, via Ars Technica. These PR guys sure love their fabricated generalizations, don't they?

August 21st, 2008 / paladinz / Tags: john mccain, dungeons and dragons, politics / Trackback / Comments

Aztec Rexicon 03 - The Hypocrisy of Carbon Footprints

The Hypocrisy of Carbon Footprints

Did You Know?! Aztec Rex always felt that having the privileged leaders of the world declaring global policies wasn't terribly fair.

July 13th, 2008 / paladinz / Tags: aztec rex, aztec rexicon, g8, politics / Trackback / Comments


Aztec Rexicon 02 - Primogenital Matters

Primogenital Matters

Did You Know?! Although a good friend of George I, Aztec Rex did not feel that it was fair that George's siblings would have no share of the family's territories.

June 12th, 2008 / paladinz / Tags: aztec rex, aztec rexicon, politics / Trackback / Comments

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