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"Take me, Judas" Sure, I could have followed up my deleted porn post with a well-thought out post on something important or something neat. But instead, here's something that will make roll over in his grave.

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Free Trade Killed Off the Neanderthals! Or maybe it was just bad weather . Neanderthals were as nimble-fingered and intelligent as homo sapiens. Ya know what I think? I think one of you monkeys rubbed him out! He'd still be around if ya hadn't killed him and set Cro-Magnon up with the rap. I'd send the likes of ya up the river but the past's the past. Just tell us why ya done it. (Bonus points for reasons expressed in verse.)