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Editorial cartoon humor from Randy Miller at ULIV.org (Utah League of Independent Voters.)

Doing the same thing over and over expecting different results is indeed a definition of insanity. This election season will be no different.

Paul Ryan is not exactly a "small government" conservative. And he surely isn't an anti-war advocate. Not that anyone expected Mitt Romney to pick a Ron Paul-like VP choice, but Republicans may be underestimating their ability to win the votes of the libertarian-right and independent voters.

A professor at the University of Calgary has created a Twitter account that, with the help of a computer program, generates parodies of Mitt Romney's tweets. Rightly called @TransforMitt, the program was reportedly a Facebook experiment gone awry. Either way, these tweets are pure comedy.

Launched in 2010, Pinterest worked its ways up the ranks of social networks to become the fastest-growing site in history, passing 10 million users in nine short months. The image-based network, as I'm sure you have seen, allows you to create boards based on categories and upload and share images, creating a scrapbook-like album or collection of images.

The website now hosts 20 million users, and that number is about to sky rocket. Announced this week, Pinterest will be ditching its invite-only policy and opening the doors of creativity up to everyone.

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The phrase “game changer” has been thrown around a lot in politics since the 2008 presidential election. Now the word has become standard in political vernacular. There may not be a person those two words apply to more than Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI).

Well, the first attacks on Mitt Romney's VP pick are out from the Obama campaign are out, and the Obama campaign has targeted the Paul Ryan entitlement reform plan. In a campaign marked by a lack of enthusiasm for and countless errors from the GOP's candidate, this could be exactly the direction the GOP are ready to head.

From an unsolicited Obama campaign e-mail:

Votizen, a non-partisan and non affiliated political platform whose goal is to "restore American democracy,” just released a new feature that may revolutionize the way in which politicians and their campaigns use social media.

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Mitt Romney announced Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan as his running mate Saturday morning. Rep. Ryan is a shrewd decision from a domestic policy angle. He is a major architect of the Republican's Path to Prosperity, a vocal member of the GOP majority in Congress, as well as youthful, fresh and predicted to invigorate the Republican base.