In April 1946, Captain Marvel faced an evil foe who invented the most heinous gadget imaginable. Thank god that shit didn’t catch on.

Bizarro Back Issues: Captain Marvel and the Peace Ray [Comics Alliance]

Our guest columnist is Rick Perry supporter and Generals International cofounder Cindy Jacobs, praising Perry’s August prayer meeting. Generals International is devoted to “achieving societal transformation through intercession and the prophetic”.

So you go and so you study the area and you find out what happened, what did the indigenous people worship, you know?

And… and… and… if they did blood sacrifice, like, we found some areas where they were very violent because the former culture was a murderous violent… like in Texas here and all the coast around Houston and Galveston and some other areas the Native American people were cannibals, you know?

And they ate people.

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Hank Williams, Jr.: “After reading hundreds of e-mails, I have made MY decision. By pulling my opening Oct 3rd, You (ESPN) stepped on the Toes of The First Amendment Freedom of Speech, so therefore Me, My Song, and All My Rowdy Friends are OUT OF HERE. It’s been a great run.”

[Bad Lip Reading]

“Imagine the National Football League in an alternate reality. Each player’s salary is based on how long he’s been in the league. It’s about tenure, not talent. The same scale is used for every player, no matter whether he’s an All-Pro quarterback or the last man on the roster. For every year a player’s been in this NFL, he gets a bump in pay. The only difference between Tom Brady and the worst player in the league is a few years of step increases. And if a player makes it through his third season, he can never be cut from the roster until he chooses to retire, except in the most extreme cases of misconduct.

Let’s face the truth about this alternate reality: The on-field product would steadily decline. Why bother playing harder or better and risk getting hurt.”

–Fran Tarkenton, What if the NFL Played by Teacher’s Rules?

Average Salary of a U.S. High School teacher: $43,450.00.

Average Salary of an NFL player: $1,9000,000.00

So yeah, let’s imagine, for a while, what the teaching profession would look like if we ran our schools like we run the NFL.

Let’s do that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGxoui3IFS0

We’ve been earning a living on Macs for twenty years, but we don’t have any iconic Steve Jobs or Apple stories to share. From System 6 to Lion, from a Mac LC to a MacBook Pro, from the iPod to the iPad we’re writing this with, Apple gadgets have simply been a happy part of our life.

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Steve Jobs Dies: Apple Chief Created Personal Computer, iPad, iPod [ABC]