What We Learned This Week

by Alex Balk January 21, 2011

• How our Pentecostal Congress grows

• Who would be Donna Summer if he only had a penis

• How to keep up with the Internet

• What is the most awful-sounding disease out there now

• How to survive for a month without drinking

• Which new indicators we use to convey musical fame

• How the anonymous novel about Barack Obama ends

• Why you should never call an emergency locksmith in New York City

Photo by Bob Jagendorf, from Flickr.

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