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4/20
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Luckily for us, we don’t have to make these QuickHits that funny today. We’ll rely on the fact that it’s 4/20 to turn these into positively the funniest thing hundreds of you have ever seen.

Teacher awards
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UNC honored three faculty members, six teaching assistants and one staff member for their excellence in teaching. With more classes moving online, it’s good to know people still count for something around here…

Archived Tweets
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The Library of Congress announced it would begin archiving all public Tweets. Good first step, but it should consider archiving the Kvetching Board if it really wants to preserve the “public record.”

Eyjafjallajokull
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A giant cloud of ash from an Icelandic volcano has descended over western Europe, grounding thousands of flights. This really Eyja-ing sucks. It’s like a crappy sci-fi Armageddon movie. Just send John Cusack to deal with this and we’ll be fine.

Goldman Sachs
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The government recently charged the Wall Street titan with  fraud for selling an investment that was designed to fail. Using Goldman’s tactics, we’re betting with a credit default swap that this lawsuit will fail to make any difference.

Trust in government
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A new poll out from the Pew Research Center shows that eight in 10 Americans don’t trust the government. All Obama’s fault, right? We need to go back to the glory days when we trusted our government … to lie to us about W.M.D.s

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