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• About that honest dialogue on “race” [Darleen Click]

  —protein wisdom

  I haven’t posted anything about the Tiger Woods affair because, frankly, a celebrity succumbing to the temptations of fame is a sad cliche. Woods is a phenom on the links and a flawed human being off them. He is not a politician/judge/district attorney with power over others’ lives so I [...]

  Posted: December 07, 2009, 1:30am EST
  by Darleen

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• OUT OF TOUCH, pt 23981

  —Word Around the Net

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  "at least, unlike Michael Mann, I can claim to have shown my working out."In an interesting comparison between net interest and legacy media coverage, Richard North creates the Tiger Woods index - destined to internet fame, I suspect.How does it work? Well he does a search on the internet and [...]

  Posted: December 04, 2009, 5:00pm EST
  by Christopher Taylor

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• Idiocy: Law Professor Argues Stupak Amendment Is Unconstitutional Because, Wait For It, Religious Groups Support It And Some Other Goofy Reasons

  —Ace of Spades HQ

  You can read a lot of dumb things on the internet (hell, I've written some of them) but this is surely Hall of Fame level idiocy. According to law professor Marci Hamilton, the Stupak Amendment banning abortion funding in the...' [...]

  Posted: November 13, 2009, 2:40pm EST
  

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• About 14 3/4 Minutes of Fame Too Long

  —No Runny Eggs

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  You may remember Carrie Prejean.  She was the young lady who was discriminated against in the Miss USA 2009 pagent because of her Christian views, which just happen to align with the majority of Americans, regarding gay marriage.  Miss Prejean became quite a celebrity following the pageant events and rightly [...]

  Posted: November 13, 2009, 6:11am EST
  by Shoebox

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• Hot Brazilian Woman In Trouble For Being A Hot Brazilian Woman

  —Innocent Bystanders

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  Seriously, this sort of injustice cannot be allowed to stand. Since when are Brazilians getting worked up about a woman’s dress? In Brazil, famed for its tiny bikinis and carefree attitude, a university student has been expelled after violent protests by students outraged at the short outfit she wore on campus. The [...]

  Posted: November 09, 2009, 2:53pm EST
  by Eddie The Bear

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• The "Ragin" Gay Marriage debate

  —Supply Side Politics 2.0

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  with a twist (it's old)
  
  [Written on 22SEP09, and discovered in the "Drafts" folder this evening. I know, I know: blog it whilst it's fresh.]
  
  so anyway, Ragin' Dave of Four Right Wing Wackos fame is having a debate with one of his readers over the' [...]

  Posted: November 06, 2009, 10:08pm EST
  by Michael X.

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• It's Friday, Y'all!

  —snapped shot

  Not so "Happy" today due to everything that's going on down in Texas, but we'll try and entertain you nonetheless.

  Today's entry—from Dane Cook, via Opie of Radio Fame—is a video representation of just about everything that was wrong with the 80's... Which is why we loved that decade [...]

  Posted: November 06, 2009, 8:04am EST
  by Brian C. Ledbetter

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