President Obama and comedian Wanda Sykes both had plenty of fun to poke at everyone at the annual White House Correspondents Association dinner Saturday night.
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Summertime in the Arctic Circle means 24-hour daylight. As you can see in this video, the sun doesn’t go down; it just bounces along the horizon.
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The link for Human Stupidity does not work. Is there a mirror or is the URL typed in wrong?
posted by Chris on 5-11-2009 at 7:50 am
The website is down -I hope it is temporary. I will look for a mirror, so check back later!
posted by Miss Cellania on 5-11-2009 at 9:16 am
I think it’s a little weird for Ms Sykes to wish death upon people at an event like that.
posted by Dude on 5-11-2009 at 9:27 am
Yeah, Dude. And you gotta love the 9/11 jokes, too.
Some of it was pretty funny, though.
posted by Tracie on 5-11-2009 at 1:56 pm
Google cache of stupidity (links are not allowed): 74.125.95.132/search?q=cache:Zq7UJ0BdQHUJ:fravia.com/realicra/basiclawsofhumanstupidity.htm+%22basic+laws+of+human+stupidity%22+site:fravia.com&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=firefox-a
There are plenty of sites with this information, though not all are complete.
posted by anomdebus on 5-11-2009 at 2:18 pm
As my first comment was critical of this “comedian”, Obama and the media and therefore deleted, allow me to try a different tact…
Those involved were not lacking in any decorum, not lacking of any class, and they did a great job!
posted by Hurricane on 5-11-2009 at 3:47 pm
Exactly Hurricane!
Shame that you got deleted but you should know better. Any criticism of The One will be banned!
posted by Stanley on 5-11-2009 at 4:17 pm
I have been to Iceland and saw the Sun do that. It’s pretty neat, even though four in the morning I had to cover my windows with sheets to block the sunlight.
posted by P. Esh on 5-11-2009 at 6:52 pm
My trip to Iceland was about the same. The sunlight was awesome to see, but at 2 am, it was brutal coming straight in the hotel room window! We went camping while we were there, and it made for some bright tent sleeping too.
posted by S on 5-12-2009 at 1:22 am