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Left: One of many smart-ass Star Wars t-shirts.

Right: Celebrited hipster artist Bansky.

How do these things differ? Is Banksy just, like, the greatest snarky t-shirt designer ever or is there more?

Left: “Monster” found in Panama.

Right: Monster found in the new movie Pandorum.

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Left: Steel wool

Right: David Copperfield

What’s happening on Chestnut. First, there is this home on the corner of 6th where the lot’s tree, which had to be nearly 100 years old (just look at that stump next to the man), was chopped down. Old dude was just sittin’ there on the porch smiling with approval. I am not sure if it was an elm but it’s likely, which would be a huge tragedy. Dutch elm disease has killed half of America’s elms. And we’re cutting the down?

And then, the above is a new home built on the corner of Chestnut and 8th. Notice anything odd? Now, I understand we don’t all want to be best friends with our neighbors; but to put ZERO windows on that side of the house? There are such things as shades, you know.  After the jump, a more accurate image of this fine new home.

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Left: Outside the gas station on Belmont Road, Grand Forks, ND.

Right:  Inside a sushi restaurant in Minneapolis, MN.

And that’s what the right is; “conservative” is just a nice word for “reactionary.” Being reactionary makes “No” an easy response with no lag time to consider or weigh anything. Healthcare reform? No. Environmentalism? No. Economic reform? No. This is one of the reasons that some liberals who are willing to acknowledge that racism plays a role in the anti-Obama sentiment, are uncomfortable jumping on the “they’re just racists” badwagon because a one-word reason is too much like the nuance-less tone of the right. And it is.

Dismissing anti-Obama sentiment as simply “racist” is lazy and demonstrates an unwillingness to even try to understand the very diversity of the right…

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The railroad runs through Grand Forks. Anyone who has ever lived around a major train depot knows that with a lot of train activity comes a lot of transient train jumpers and hobos (yes, still today).  Since the economy went south this taco cart has been around town.

Left: Cite Soleil, Haiti

Right: Cirque Soleil, Las Vegas

Part of being in hell is that there are only two men with whom the cast down can go on dates. They are below.

The truly damned are forced to have three ways with them. Everyday. Buck doing the play by play on Costas’ technique as he porks you while at the same time smugly criticising your lack of sexiness.  Think about that next time you go sinning…