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How Can I Keep From Schadenfreude?

Perhaps you are familiar with the beautiful hymn / folk song “How Do I Keep From Singing?” “How Can I Keep From Singing?” (also known by its first line “My Life Flows On in Endless Song”) is an American folksong originating as a Christian hymn. The author of the lyrics was known only as ‘Pauline […]

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Meaning of Life

Gifts from God

Gifts from God come in many forms. Traditional Gifts The Long Arc of Justice Gifts Random (but much appreciated) Gifts from God [ed. note: WLBOTT wishes to provide our views with a PG-13 experience, and we have instituted an internal WLBOTT Ministry of Virtue and Vice to safeguard our precious content. Therefore, we must sometimes […]

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Heros - NOT Oh, Grow Up! Sticking It To The Man Vanity

It Wasn’t Just Bronzer

There once was a convicted felon named tRrumpHe spent the trial looking like an orange grumpHe was not pleased with the juryAnd ran out of the courthouse in a furyTo find a porn star to slap him with a magazine on his rump – UC#3 Trump was caught attempting to bring contraband makeup into his […]

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Project 2124

Project 2124 Timeline

As we close out Project 2124, we present one hypothetical timeline envisioned by an anonymous WLBOTT Elder. 2024 Trump reelected. Beginning of New Dark Age in US and Europe. Nuclear fusion projected to be commercially available in 20 years. Russia threatens the use of nuclear weapons. 2025 Trump suspends all aid to Ukraine. EPA Abolished […]

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Can We Please Get On With our Lives?

In a minute. But first…. Correlation, causation and coincidence There is both a metaphysical and statistical debate about the titled topics.  But I will just point out the drop in Hormel stock today, a can of Spam is 340 grams  and Trump getting convicted on 34 counts.  I’ll let the Elders ruminate on this. UC#3

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Heros - NOT Sticking It To The Man Will there be a buffet?

Guilty

The New York Times, The Washington Post, Der Spiegel, Le Monde, The Guardian, The Hindu, and…. WLBOTT. Coverage Non-Coverage America’s Finest News Source Will There Be a Buffet? Of course. We’re not savages here.

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Is WLBOTT (Lunch) Counter-Revolutionary?

A lively discussion is taking place among the Elders. 5/25/2024, 10:42 AM I feel the elders have been trying to be inclusive of our guild recognizing some of us use the metric system vs American system of measurement and Celsius vs Fahrenheit temperature scales. But my ear-worm today is the term ‘counterclockwise’ vs ‘anti clockwise’ […]

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Where was the Due Diligence?

WLBOTT corporate is a bit steamed today. It was just this very morning that we became aware of Buckets the Drummer. Why hasn’t this been brought to our attention sooner? Steamed WLBOTT Executives

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Food Heros Late Stage Capitalism Nature Philippines

Golden Rice, Part II

There is so much to talk about with Golden Rice that we have only seen the tip of the Rice-Berg™©®℗☮. Distrust of Corporate Producers One of the concerns of opponents of Golden Rice is a distrust of the GMO patent holders. In August of 2013, a group of protesters uprooted the golden rice plants in […]

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Food Heros Late Stage Capitalism

Golden Rice, part I

A few days ago The Guardian had an interesting article about “Golden Rice”. Basically, this rice is a genetically modified (GM or GMO) type of rice (called Golden Rice) that has been engineered to contains beta carotene, which the body converts to vitamin A. Vitamin A deficiency is a huge problem in the developing world. […]