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May 4th

Feb 8th

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It’s not like African-Americans don’t eat fried chicken and collard greens. They don’t eat it every day but it is a part of African-American American culture. What’s the big fuckin’ deal.

Feb 5th

Feb 3rd

Jan 20th

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Anderson Cooper is THE MAN.

Jan 19th

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Pat Robertson is Insane.

Jan 14th

The Idiot

Sarah Palin may be the stupidest person ever to be an analyst for Fox News.

Jan 13th

More Power to the Federal Reserve? →

Jan 6th

Jan 5th

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The ridiculous profession of being the Original Chicago Tin Man. Anyone who’s been to Chicago has seen him on North Michigan, but I bet you didn’t know how much he takes in every day.

Dec 29th

Dec 27th

Have a Merry Christmas from Rhubarbs

Dec 25th

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Love Glengarry Glen Ross, love SNL’s version too.

Dec 18th

White House Denies Advocating Deal With US Sen... →

The bigger question might be why the executive and legislative branch are working so closely at all, or how the whole “checks and balances” bit that we all learn in grade school doesn’t seem to apply anymore.

Dec 14th

AT&T's 3G network suc... - Verizon, I'm really...

Apparently AT&T doesn’t suck that much after all.

Dec 14th

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Berlusconi gets owned.

Dec 14th

The Latest from Dowd

After the baseball steroid scandal and the disappointing news that Tiger’s a cheetah, as the New York Post headline put it, it’s time to accept that athletes are not role models.

Dec 7th

Everytime I start to think "maybe Google isn't... →

The scariest part of this is that I’m actually tempted to switch to Google’s DNS service. Somehow, Google just keeps making better products, all of which conveniently collect massive amount of information from its users. Google wants to know EVERYTHING you do online, and now they can.

Dec 3rd

Too Fat for Jail →

Maybe he should just be shot.

Dec 3rd

4367 for Oil

Remember when W. tried to convince us that invading Iraq was about WMD’s, well maybe this was what they were looking for.

Dec 1st

Human Nature →

While we’re clearly not there yet, I’m looking forward to the day hard science makes philosophy, psychology, and sociology obsolete.

Nov 30th

Nov 27th

Nov 26th

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The Worst Decade Ever

Nov 26th

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We try not to be [too] partisan here, but the exhibition of hyper-partisanship here is astounding. According to Perino, this never happened.

Nov 25th

Nov 24th

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Nov 24th

Nov 22nd

Tall Trump

The Trump Tower in Chicago is now the 6th tallest building in the world, which is quite astonishing for me to think about. I’ve seen the Trump Tower up close many times, and the fact that it is the 2nd tallest building in the U.S. alone amazes me. I guess I’ve been looking at too many photos of the Burj Dubai. As a Chicagoan, I still believe that antennae should be considered a...

Nov 18th

Cool Guys...

3 favorites on GQ’s Men of The Year 2009. Notice Obama is on the list for 2nd time in a row.

Nov 17th

Dead.Fly.Art

via this

Nov 17th

Can a species be invasive if it tastes good?

Wildlife officials have spent millions of dollars in the attempt to contain Asian carp in the Great Lakes, and now are planning to attempt a mass fish poisoning. What I’d like to know if, what’s wrong with giant fish that taste good? I don’t even think an economic argument is valid. Many fisherman are doubling their profits by going for these easy to catch fish that can weight...

Nov 17th

Lost There, Felt Here

Thomas L. Friedman’s Sunday Op-Ed. Interesting elaboration on discussion about China as seen on the junction.

Nov 15th

Op-Ed Columnist - Triumph of a Dreamer -... →

Nov 15th

“Obama’s handshake/forward lurch was so jarring and inappropriate it...”

Nov 15th

Racial rethinking as Obama visits -... →

A reason for lack of enthusiasm perhaps?

Nov 15th

China's Changing Role →

Nov 15th

Nov 14th

Obesity's scapegoats + Bad Science Writing →

See it discussed here. The article also brings up a brilliant example of terrible science writing by the media, which is discussed here as well.

Nov 13th

Bye Lou!!!

Lou Dobbs is finally leaving CNN after much controversy. I only wish people could organize to get rid of Glenn Beck as successfully. Video via CNN

Nov 12th

Nov 11th

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Saw The Box tonight. I’ve come to the conclusion that Cameron Diaz has reached the point which indicates that she should cease acting, and also plastic surgery. Apart from Diaz’s ridiculous accent, more “Alabamian” than “Virginian”, The Box is an entertaining movie. Totally thought it would be different than it actually was. The movie is based on a short story...

Nov 10th

Schwarzenegger says 'Fuck You' →

For the full message, from the website of the State of California: http://gov.ca.gov/pdf/press/2009bills/AB1176_Ammiano_Veto_Message.pdf

Nov 10th

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WOW, really awesome ad from hp. creative solution + simple execution = brilliance. UPDATE: unfortunately it appears that the video has been deleted. Apologies.

Nov 10th