all-encompassingly

Q. What do you call 100,000 Frenchmen with their hands up?
A. The French Army.
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“France has neither winter nor summer nor morals. Apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country. France has usually been governed by prostitutes.” –Mark Twain
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“I would rather have a German division in front of me than a French one behind me.” […]

commenting on the recent dixie chicks faux pas and the reaction by many of their fans to stop listening to their music, john norris (confident he had the moral high ground) remarked sarcastically, “funny, these are the same people that say they believe in ‘free speech.’”
john. you are an idiot. everyone is entitled […]

UPI reports on the impotence of france:
LISBON, Portugal, March 10 (UPI) — Portugal is siding with the United States on Iraq because Washington was “Portugal’s best way to ensure national security,” a Portuguese Cabinet minister said Monday.
Foreign Minister Antonio Martins da Cruz told state radio that if Portugal were attacked, “it would be unlikely France […]

An interesting news item from Reuters today caught my attention:

Islamic Summit Rocked as Iraq Slams Kuwait
DOHA, Qatar (Reuters) - Bitter enmity between Iraq and Kuwait erupted in a vitriolic name-calling match on Wednesday at an Islamic summit meant to unite the voices of the world’s one billion Muslims against war.
In a clash caught on live […]

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i wrote this paper in high school
The phrase, “affirmative action” first became a part of public policy in March of 1961 by executive order.. In it, President Kennedy states, “The contractor will take affirmative action to ensure that applicants are employed, and that employees are treated during employment, without regard to their […]

IN DEFENSE OF USA MEN’S HOCKEY
I am responding to the commentary of Michelle Kaufman of the Miami Herald, who in reporting on the recent Olympics, chose to shrug off the pure spirit of international competition and cloud her writings with an inappropriate message of feminism. Ms. Kaufman insinuated in her February 19 article that […]

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first of all, why did we name the site “all-encompassingly”? we named it for a mitch hedberg joke:

I use the word ‘totally’ too much. I need to change it up and use a word that is different but has the same meaning. [like, if somebody were to ask me,] “Hey man, do you […]

[in the form of a legislative enactment]
whereas we like the following rules, we have chosen to adopt them on our blog, almost verbatim. (in other words, please be clear that we are not claiming original authorship of the majority of this material. please compare what we have written here with the GOC’s […]