3 posts tagged ‘government’
U.S. government has online dad joke archive
Boing Boing,
Dad Jokes [fatherhood.gov] amounts to an official U.S. government repository of simplistic, inoffensive one-liners, puns and wisecracks. It's a kind of dad joke isolation project, you might say, an important message for people in the future, a warning that we considered ourselves to be a powerful culture and that the danger is still present in their time as it was in ours. — Read the rest The post U.S. government has online dad joke archive appeared first on Boing Boing.
Biden "jokingly" hinted at a presidential run by California Gov. Gavin Newsom
At last night's APEC welcome reception in San Francisco, President Joe Biden "joked" about a future presidential run by California Governor Gavin Newsom. "I want to talk about Gov. Newsom. Want to thank him," Biden said. "He's been one hell of a governor, man. — Read the rest
US House Speaker Mike Johnson says the separation of church and state is a "misnomer"
US House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) says that the separation of church and state is a "misnomer." Thomas Jefferson famously used the phrase in an 1802 letter to the Danbury Baptists Association of Connecticut in which he explained the First Amendment to the US Constitution builds "a wall of separation between Church & State." — Read the rest