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from BuzzWhack - literatisement: An advertising product placement embedded in books, short stories, etc. Just like they do in TV. So beware the next time your book’s hero is driving a Lexus, the author may be on Lexus’ payroll. Ah, the plot thickens.

Conversation Among the Ruins - by Sylvia plath

Through portico of my elegant house you stalk
With your wild furies, disturbing garlands of fruit

literatisement version: Through the portico of my house built with drywall from Darrels Building Supply you stalk

With your wild Furies which were worse before you started taking Zoloft made by Pfizer, disturbing garlands of fruit from Ann’s House of Flowers at 5th and Market St.

casades croatia wallpaper 

Rep. Don Young’s (R-AK) alters earmark *after* it was signed into law 

Hopefully we’re about to get closer to learning how Rep. Don Young’s (R-AK) $10 million Coconut Road earmark made its famous post-vote change. A Washington watchdog group filed a complaint today with the House ethics committee asking for an investigation into the drastic edit, calling it “an extraordinary case of the House of Representatives’ integrity being undermined.”

This might be a first in modern history. Congress passes a spending bill. Which if you’ve ever read through one of these bills is very exact in language and obviously the dollars spent might as well be writ in stone. Any changes what so ever must be voted on again in a supplemental bill or Congress must write a completely new bill. This bill is then sent to the president who either signs it or vetoes it. Somewhere along the line Young got someone to change the bill once Congress had passed it and before the president signed it. The concept of one person taking a Congressional bill and altering it is pretty audacious and arrogant.