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Salon: Why’s GOP calling Rangel “crooked Harlem Democrat”?
Thats easy! Its because the GOP is America’s Racist Party. And in Harlem there are mostly black people, you see.
And while I’m thinking about it, Salon partially answered their own question earlier today in this piece (tipped to us by WTPWB’s biggest fan JEG, IV), describing in no [...]
NPH = Gargamel?
Neal Patrick Harris’ stock went up in my book after I saw him guest judge (read: tear people up on) American Idol. Not that NPH ever had stock issues in my book. But this could be his tipping point… from pretty cool to fucking awesome:
Neil Patrick Harris has a TV-heavy resume. Now he’s just landed [...]
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Seeing straight
Not that it bothers me all that much, but does it strike anyone that blind jokes about David Paterson are more acceptable, or at least more common, than before it came out that he used the power of his office to intimidate a victim of domestic violence, bungled budget negotiations and gave false testimony under [...]
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Second Look: Bruce Ivins
In partial spite of my tongue-in-cheek writing up of Bruce Ivins’s oddball lifestyle in the run up to his mailing Anthrax letters to members of Congress shortly after September 11, 2001, a second look at the document proves absolutely chilling. I didn’t notice this upon first read, because some of the paragraph is cut off [...]
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Charlie Crist FTW
Florida Gov. Charlie Crist (R) broke from his party and defended his “pragmatic” stance on accepting stimulus money in his state of the state address yesterday. He managed to work in a few “back to reality” jabs at fellow Republicans as well. The joys of lame-duckedness (duckhood?):
A few governors may have rather loudly condemned the [...]
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IRM
In case you were curious, this Charlotte Gainsbourg/Beck collaboration is nice, but not a step off of what you’d expect if Charlotte Gainsbourg and Beck made an album together.
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Doc Anthrax
So the thing they told us in college when everyone was freaking the fuck out about anthrax-filled letters popping up all over D.C. was that, really, the chance of being targeted was near-zero because a) the supply of anthrax is almost nil, b) its difficult to make and c) the number of people with access [...]
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In a moment of weakness…
I have to admit, I’m a sucker for stupid criminal stories, so while I’d normally avoid recommending in earnest anything TruTV comes up with, I submit for your approval Dumb as a Blog: A Daily Digest of the Dumbest Stuff People Do.
Full disclosure: TruTV has NOT paid for this promotion, because I’m not famous enough [...]
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Did Bob Beckel Swear On Hannity Last Night?
No. He didn’t. And pretty clearly, too. But some are still running with it (with the same headline we’ve got.. rule 471 of new media journalism: If you haven’t an answer, run it anyway, but as a question.).
Here’s the video. Its pretty clear he says “yet” not “shit”.
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“The Origins Of Facebook And Its Founder and CEO, Mark Zuckerberg”