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The Loony Bin 2009-04-28

Important Feed Changes

Attention, Naked Loon RSS and email subscribers. By popular request, beginning tomorrow the default Naked Loon feed will be converted to news-only content.

Q: Huh?
A: Your current RSS or email subscription updates with all news content and blog content, including this blog, Forecast Monkey, and others. The new default will be for news content only.

Q: So how do I get the new news-only feed?
A: Sit there and do nothing. Your feed will be converted automatically.

Q: But I like the blogs! How can I get them back?
A: If you would like to regain an RSS or email subscription to Naked Loon blog content, visit our Feeds page for the full buffet of subscription options.

Q: You’re a doodie-head.
A: I’m not sure how that’s relevant. And I am not.

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The Loony Bin 2009-04-10

Naked Loon Scoops New York Times by SIX MONTHS

A story in today’s New York Times may seem very familiar to faithful Naked Loon readers… Copycats.

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The Loony Bin 2009-04-01

Happy Birthday to Us!

April 1st marks the one-year anniversary for The Naked Loon, which seems like as good a reason as any to spend some time patting ourselves on the back.

In the last 365 days, The Naked Loon has…

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The Loony Bin 2009-03-29

Rip Van Naked Loon

Whoa, that was a great nap. I feel totally refreshed and ready to take on the world!

So how long was I out? Two, three hours?

What? Thirty-seven days?!? How is that even possible?

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The Loony Bin 2009-01-13

Email This Story Function Fixed

Just a quick programming note to let readers know that the “Email This Story” function is now functioning again, after having been broken for around a month (thanks a lot, WordPress 2.7).

You now have our permission to resume your regularly scheduled friend-spamming.

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The Loony Bin 2009-01-13

Phishing Email of the Month

A helpful representative from eBay emailed me to let me know that my online has expired. Immediate action is necessary…

Opinion 2008-12-08

Bugs: Stupid Dummies

Stupid bugs. They think they’re so much better than us. Always lording their six legs and their wings and their thoraxes over us.

What gives them the right to crawl on my dirt, and fly through my air? Nothing, that’s what.

They’re so arrogant; they act like they own the planet or something. Like as if just because they outnumber us humans 42 billion to one, they think deserve some kind of respect. Not hardly.

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The Loony Bin 2008-11-07

Weirdos Ask Google News: Is Obama the Antichrist?

Um, what the heck, people?

According to The Naked Loon’s web tracking software, on Wednesday and Thursday at least 43 people arrived at our recent point-counterpoint by doing a Google News search for “is obama the antichrist”, plus over 150 more that searched for either obama antichrist, obama anti christ, obama the antichrist, and many other variations totaling over 200 visitors.

Seriously? People are searching Google News for this?

Opinion 2008-10-24

Thank Goodness It’s Polar Fleece Season!

I think it’s safe to say that I’m not the only one that was relieved—no, overjoyed to look out my window in recent days and see gray skies and drizzle.

When the thermometer drops into the fifties, I can barely contain my enthusiasm as I head to the closet to pull out that hallmark of any self-respecting northwesterner’s wardrobe: the polar fleece.

The best part about polar fleece…

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The Loony Bin 2008-10-16

Fun REALLY Over for King County Fair

Anybody remember this story from the Naked Loon’s April 1 launch day? Fun Over for King County Fair

Opinion 2008-10-13

The Economic Meltdown Has Gone Too Far

When the stock market fell thirty percent, it was rough, but I knew I could handle it since I’m young and have my whole life ahead of me. When Washington Mutual went under and had its bones picked clean by a hoity toity New York bank, I knew I would miss their low fees and laid-back attitude, but life goes on.

But when I learned last week that Mother’s Cookies has gone under, that’s when I knew that the economic meltdown had gone too far.

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The Loony Bin 2008-10-03

CREDIT IN CRISIS: Naked Loon Special Edition

The credit crisis is probably the biggest disaster to strike our nation since we narrowly avoided a deadly bird flu epidemic. Or was it SARS. Anyway, the point is that if not for the BIG BOLD HEADLINES and terrifying stories all over the evening news for weeks straight, we surely would have endured massive carnage.

So in the time-honored journalism tradition of relentlessly beating the big scary story of the day with a seemingly unending steam of sensationalist stories, I present CREDIT IN CRISIS: Naked Loon Special Edition.

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The Loony Bin 2008-09-30

Naked Loon Returns Wednesday

Public Service Announcement

After a refreshing / costly “vacation,” The Naked Loon will return on Wednesday with the latest important local, national, international, interplanetary, and trans-galactic news for discerning Puget Sound internet readers.

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The Loony Bin 2008-09-29

Introducing Naked Loon Comics

I’m happy to announce that The Naked Loon has partnered with local cartoonist Jeff Swenson to begin a new feature: Comics!