Protip: Writing with Aliens

aliens always have superhuman powers. if you write a story, and your alien
doesn't have superhuman abilities, like an X-Man, you're a shit writer.

Ultimate Smart Alliance: Liberal Spin

"we are a colossal success and you are a failure. we have more viewers than
anyone. it has nothing to do with smart people having better things to do that
dumb people, and nothing to do with dumb people potentially outnumbering smart
ones."

Internets: Facebook

we all know that facebook is a piece of shit, but some of us use it anyway. i
don't know why, because it's a piece of shit. visually better than myspace, it
may actually be otherwise worse than myspace.

also, there's this:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110126/ap_on_hi_te/us_tec_facebook_ads

Religion: Cowboy Church

Cowboy churches are local Christian churches within the cowboy culture
that are distinctively Western heritage in character. A typical cowboy church
may meet in a rural setting in a barn, metal building, arena, sale barn, or old
western building, have its own rodeo arena, and a country gospel
band. Baptisms are generally done in a cattle tank. The sermons are usually
short and simple. Some cowboy churches have covered arenas where rodeo events
such as bull riding, team roping, ranch sorting, team penning
and equestrian events are held on weeknights.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowboy_church