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Early Exits [Part 1 of a series]
We likey the politics here at WTPWB. Also, the half-baked, semi-irresponsible commentary. So here’s what we’re gonna do this year, to make our campaign coverage, such as it is, a little more exciting. We’re gonna make some half-cocked predictions! Lets begin.
NY Senate Democratic Primary: Kirsten Gillibrand landslide.
Her victory over Harold Ford, Jr. has been more [...]
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A thousand monkeys at a thousand typewriters…
…Probably could have drawn the conclusion posited by Nicole M. LaVoi on Women Talk Sports, that — hold on to your butts — Sports Illustrated objectifies women!
Well yeah, no shit.
The subject is Olympic skier Lindsey Vonn, who I’m told is very good at skiing and who is also quite attractive. She’s featured on this month’s [...]
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How in the holy fuck could this have happened?
Someone please help me understand this one, which I picked up from Fail Blog and was SURE it must be a hoax of some kind, but a little scan of the IRS Web site confirms, at least, that these passages exist, even if they are the product of some kind of prank. From Publication 17, [...]
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In honor of Black History Month, NBC employees are invited to dress in blackface and perform an entertaining jig.
Not quite, but too close for comfort:
[via Mediaite]
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Is an executive’s personal opinion a good reason to defy industry standards?
If you’re Steve Jobs, and the “industry standard” is Flash, yep, it is.
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Visiting hours are over
I’ve only been to the emergency room once for an actual emergency. Since the hospital near my house is — and please note the word purportedly, because I ain’t fuckin’ with any libel lawsuit – purportedly a public death machine, I opted for the next one on the Google Maps search for “holy shit I [...]
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This is pretty much me watching Lost, that one time I watched Lost
With the exception of that last frame, which I don’t understand.
[via Videogum]
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The 6 Weirdest Things Women Do to Their Vaginas
Can’t pass up a headline like that, can you?
This would be one of those things that I’ll invariably click on Huffington Post, knowing full well its going to be somehow awful, gross, disappointing, or wrong. Turns out AlterNet is the true predator here. Either way, it wouldn’t be worth posting at all if it weren’t [...]
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Jersey Shore to continue; Pauly D kicking ass at life
Yeah you’ve already heard that the Jersey Shore crew resigned for a second-season at a pathetically low per-episode rate, which initially concerned me, until I found out they were only pulling $200 an episode each last year. With that, I sort of feel like they’re asking for it.
But Mediaite points out why these guys probably [...]
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Tea party keynote: Obama won because there is no “civics, literacy test before people can vote”