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Remember this ? Well, here's more proof: see more Celeb Look-A-Likes Making hit cartoons is hard work.

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It's how to exploit the eye candy .

As in, " don't want to at all ."

Two to go . Chrysler, one of the three pillars of the American auto industry, will file for bankruptcy today after last-minute negotiations between the government and the automaker's creditors broke down last night, an Obama administration official said. U.S. officials had offered Chrysler's secured lenders $2.25 billion in cash if they would agree to writedown the $6.9 billion in secured debt that the company owed. But a small group of hedge funds refused the 11th-hour deal, forcing an imminent bankruptcy. An administration official this morning expressed disappointment, saying the holdouts had failed to "do the right thing," but that "their failure to act in either their own economic interest or the national interest does not diminish the accomplishments made by Chrysler, Fiat and its stakeholders, nor will it impede the new opportunity Chrysler now has to restructure and emerge stronger going forward."

Being a political party over saturated by religious dogma and fundamentalism, as well as a aversion to science and higher education, has it's downside. Remember after Americans wanted answers to 9/11 and Condi Rice gave us the " I don't think anybody could have predicted that they would try to use an airplane as a missile, a hijacked airplane as a missile ." How about after Hurricane Katrina, when President Bush gave us the " I don't think anybody anticipated the breach of the levees. They did anticipate a serious storm ." (Of course, Bush is a special case ). No we have Michael Steele doing the same thing. Interesting that while trying to cover up for the fact that he's shortsighted, Steele admits that the bills was about creating jobs . Creating jobs . Sigh. Should I even be surprised at the group who had no exit strategy for Iraq? I guess not. Oh, and Rush Limbaugh thinks kicking out the 2008 Republican Candidate for President is supercool . Fore...

While most people were focused on some other event related to number 100, I was prepping for LOST's 100 episode . It wasn't exactly "One For the Ages," but definitely better than average . Revelations Eloise is Daniel's mom (duh) and Widmore is Daniel's pop (wah?). Sawyer isn't exactly over Kate (dude, never call your ex by her pet name within earshot of your current GF). Desmond survived Ben's ambush. Widmore decided to sacrifice having a relationship with his daughter to...get the Island back? Charlotte wasn't going crazy when she was dying of the time jumps; her mind was "leaping" through her own personal timeline. Observations Dharma Initiative folks are more trigger-happy than the Others, but not better shots! Apparently, Charlotte didn't have many friends while she was on the Island. For a guy with a long life-span, Alpert sure has a short memory. How can you possibly forget a guy who told you to bury a Hydrogen Bomb? The Smoke ...

“I was a child and just thought I was helping my dad . I didn’t know.” " Anyway you cut it , the union is going to be a major presence at the company." “I don’t know how hurt he is. If he is out there, I know he’s going to play. My concern is not his back. My concern is if he is playing .” " Hints he took steroids as early as high school days ." "Containment is no longer a feasible option. The world should focus on mitigation. We recommend not closing borders or restricting travel .”

On Hardball last night , Chris Matthews had this interesting exchange with Rick Hertzberg (senior editor and staff writer for the “New Yorker"): MATTHEWS: What do you make of Tom Ridge‘s statement that he‘s going to be looking into this. Quote—here‘s what Tom Ridge said today in a late statement. “So let‘s begin the discussion of ideas, with a respectful contest, as Pennsylvania and the nation continue to work collectively through these challenging times.” The very popular two-term governor of this state—Rick Hertzberg, get in on this. This guy‘s pro-choice. He‘s been tough on things like the MX, military waste. He‘s been very independent with people like Dick Cheney. Can he bring back the Rockefeller Republican party? HERTZBERG: Somebody is going to have to eventually. I mean, the Club for Growth is not universally popular in the Republican party. I mean, do you know what Huckabee said about the Club for Growth? This is a year ago December. I interviewed him. He called it the Cl...

OK; let me see if I have this straight (if anyone can provide dates and such, cool): On 9/11/2001, America experiences its worst terrorist attack ever. The Bush Administration (specifically Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld) want to link this horrible event to Saddam Hussein for financial and ideological reasons. The US start capturing suspected terrorists and people who may have ties to terrorists. They began to interrogate them . The interrogations either yield nothing or nothing giving the pro-war-with-Iraq faction of the White House the information it needs. Without crucial "links" to Iraq, Bush Administration settles for real evidence linking to Afghanistan. Under the influence of key Bush White House officials, the Executive Branch redefines interrogation , adopting techniques that some lawyers and most lay people define as torture. The United States of America begins to apply these "techniques" in order to make the people that were captured "admit" t...

The Comeback Caps . Snikt ! Oink ! Boston gets some swag back . The Nintendo Rock ? The War on Drugs + the War on Terror = Something .

And here's why . My reaction is still leaning in Poorman territory , though. Michael Steele is having trouble reconciling , kinda like this guy:

Like musical chairs, only with your faith . Why Republicans don't want suspected terrorists to stand trial . Some good news on the gender pay gap front . Remember when Dennis Rodman used to grab rebounds ? Florida House: drill, baby, drill ! Saturn and Hummer to go the way of the Dodo . So a black man as POTUS makes race relations more hunky-dory ? Geez, people!

Craigslist killing suspect can't afford lawyer . 'Nuff said.

...which is why God invented quotes and links : Washington : Offensive line. The Redskins didn't add any draft picks to their current group of greybeards. Guard Pete Kendall, a two-year Redskins starter who turns 36 in July, could now be re-signed. But the off-season is still young.

This is what happens when you have a real protest .

Gavin M from Sadly, No! received an email that apparently said , ============== The Water Cooler to [comedy pseudonym] 10:58 AM (1 hour ago) The Water Cooler has sent you a message on Team Sarah I have been inundated with emails from people both inside and outside of Team Sarah raising the issue of the swine flu “crisis” in relation to the pending confirmation of Kathleen Sebelius. As we all know, one of Emanuel’s trademark tactics is to take an opportunistic approach to any situation that may be deemed a “crisis” of some sort, whether real or orchestrated. Is it me, or is this latest rhetoric regarding the swine flu starting to ring the suspicion bell? Is the Obama administration weighed down by the heat on Sebelius and pulling out all the stops to push her confirmation through. I have to wonder….. Call your Senators NOW. Your Buddy, The Water Cooler Far be it for me to question "Team Sarah" ( see? told you! ) but I have to wonder what the reaction would have been had there ...

So let me get this straight... if we torture prisoners, we're living in a shining city on a hill.But if we investigate and prosecute those responsible for torture, we're living in a banana republic.No wonder people have stopped taking Republicans seriously. -- DU's EarlG, referring to #s 1 and 2 of the "Top Ten Conservative Idiots." IMHO, calling them "conservatives" or even "Republicans" at this point insults what both those words/labels meant. But "idiots" still stand, and "crazy" probably should be added.

Oink, oink ! The kid who got Brittney Spear's little sister pregnant was in a car crash . Old people are cool . Well now we know the answer to, "Can two cops subdue a soldier?" Fortunately for Orlando , Hedo Turkoglu is not Peja Stojakovic . R.I.P., Pontiac . We're low on doctors ? How'd that happen?

Governors who support secession from the United States of America should not be allowed federal aid, even for swine flu . After all, if you want to separate, shouldn't your "new" nation be able to handle things like this own you on? Now, if he comes to his senses, and admit on national TV that he was stupid for even suggesting that Texas should leave the United States of America, then we'll talk.

MORTAL KOMBAT !!!! Disney cartoons are so original . Hillary Clinton Ain't No one Ta Fuck Wit . Fortunately, I have no need for such things . 100 Days . People rarely focus on what the Kama Sutra says not to do . Exercising in the cold .

Power moves by President Obama and Senate Democrats to shield health care reform are pissing of Republicans (who obviously forgot about the "super majority" talk when they were power). Guess Desmond won't make it to Season Six . Yes; certain game systems are only good for certain games . R.I.P., Bea Arthur .

Media Matters has a report that says President Obama has received more process/political questions than substantive ones, while the exact opposite happened under President Bush . Very interesting, especially considering that the knock on Sen./presidential-candidate Obama was that he lacked substance. One would think, given the constant cries for him to come out with a plan and stop talking about "hope," that reporters would be more inclined to ask President Obama about the meat and potatoes of his initiatives. But that was about 50 memes ago.

He exposes the pro-torture crowd for the cowards they are .

Back in my day (can't believe I just said that) we used farts and a cigarette lighter. But today : CLARE, Mich. – Two brothers in Michigan accused of burning a 6-year-old boy's buttocks with a blowtorch have been charged with first-degree child abuse. The Morning Sun says 36-year-old Gerald Hall and 43-year-old Glen Hall were charged Wednesday in the incident involving Gerald Hall's son.State police investigators say the boy was burned at least once. Sgt. Del Putnam says the child is in protective custody.

All that Jazz . Can't say this surprises me. Oh yeah; Iraq . First time in more than a decade , right? Spurs get trampled . Like 'X-Men,' but with cows . Credit Card companies? You're next . Celtics remember that they are defending NBA champs .

Karl Rove goes Coo-Coo for Coco Puffs over the released memos. Ari Fleischer needs to reboot after learning that Americans punished WWII Japanese military for water-boarding US soldiers. Joe Scarborough compares torture to boot camp ..or something. Can't even imagine the reaction if an investigation actually happens. I wonder if Obama had a conversation like this before he made the decision to release the memos. UPDATE: Ruh-Roh ! And the hits just keep on coming...

She keeps it real .

Well, he won't be getting any bailout money. Guess they couldn't know if it was torture until they actually did it . The NBA's greatest mountain gives way . I've been waiting for a lawyer to use the term " ick factor " in a Supreme Court hearing. Next on the list: "No-Noes." The way they're describing this guy , he may have a future with FoxNews (if he can avoid the death penalty). If you're relying on Brian Scalabrine to save your playoff hopes , you have no playoff hopes. This mom has stones . Crazy as all get out, but she has stones. Memo to Dan Snyder: do not sign this man . Please.

Not every terrorist is foreign-born.

It ain't easy being a transitional president: WASHINGTON — Pressure mounted on President Obama on Monday for more thorough investigation into harsh interrogations of terrorism suspects under the Bush administration, even as he tried to reassure the Central Intelligence Agency that it would not be blamed for following legal advice. Mr. Obama said it was time to admit “mistakes” and “move forward.” But there were signs that he might not be able to avoid a protracted inquiry into the use of interrogation techniques that the president’s top aides and many critics say crossed the line into torture. And while Mr. Obama vowed not to prosecute C.I.A. officers for acting on legal advice, on Monday aides did not rule out legal sanctions for the Bush lawyers who developed the legal basis for the use of the techniques. The president’s decision last week to release secret memorandums detailing the harsh tactics employed by the C.I.A. under his predecessor provoked a furor that continued to g...

Iran on Israel : PARIS, April 20 -- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad argued before a U.N. anti-racism conference Monday that Israel is a "paragon of racism" founded on "the pretext of Jewish sufferings" during World War II. The comments, a hard-edged version of Ahmadinejad's often-repeated anti-Zionist views, prompted several dozen European diplomats to walk out of the opening session of the week-long Geneva meeting, which the Obama administration and eight other Western nations already were boycotting. In addition, a handful of pro-Israel demonstrators shouting "shame, shame" and "racist, racist" threw red clown noses at the podium and prevented Ahmadinejad from entering a room where he was to hold a news conference. Israel on Iran : Israel's deputy prime minister has compared Iran to Nazi Germany, in response to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's criticism of the Jewish state at a United Nations conference. Silvan Shalom's co...

Impressive ... most impressive . Stephen Hawking is recovering . What's in your bank's wallet ? I have to say: if you're "dancing" at 52, getting attacked with a shoe is the least of your problems. Time for another new Coke . Gigiddy-gigiddy-goo .

Let’s see now, [Saul] Anuzis is the former GOP head of a state that has two Democratic senators, a Democratic governor, a Democratic majority in the house, and a state house that has 67 Democratic representatives out of 110 seats. Plus he’s a failed candidate for the national party chairman. Are there any Republicans out there offering advice who aren’t losers? -- Gunner , replying to a Sadly, No! post about a former GOP everything who thinks that with "liberal" and "socialist" not having the sting it used to, maybe referring to President Obama as "fascist" will get the Republicans some sympathy/votes/credibility. May I add : at this rate, we're probably one year away from someone "accidentally" calling our President the "N-word" on live TV.

Someone who understands American TV Media very well, apparently.

Jamison Foser hits it : Today, more than 200 years after the Boston Tea Party, United States citizens who live in their nation's capital are subject to taxation without representation. Actual taxation without representation. Not the "my elected officials aren't doing what I want" kind; the "I don't have elected officials" kind. The kind that led colonists in Massachusetts to flavor the Boston Harbor. Now, here's the amazing part: Every major news organization in the country covered Wednesday's tea parties. And, in doing so, they all ignored the fact that residents of Washington, D.C., are subject to the very conditions that led to the Boston Tea Party. Damn right. I don't recall anyone on FoxNews calling for revolution when President Bush had the "No Taxation Without Representation" licenses removed from his limos (Clinton had them added to show support for D.C. residents). But because President Obama asked, asked, for some accounta...

It's crazy how Bill Simmons, a guy who writes about sports for a living, can be so on point about non-sport issues. At least much more so than other guys. Anyway, while talking about Kevin Garnett's injury, he gets into the newspaper issue : There's a hidden sub-story lurking here: It involves the fall of newspapers, lack of access and the future of reporting, not just with sports but with everything. I grew up reading Bob Ryan, who covered the Celtics for the Boston Globe and remains the best basketball writer alive to this day. Back in the 1970s and early '80s, he was overqualified to cover the team. In 1980, he would have sniffed out the B.S. signs of this KG story, kept pursuing it, kept writing about it, kept working connections and eventually broken it. True, today's reporters don't get the same access Ryan had, but let's face it: If 1980 Bob Ryan was covering the Celtics right now, ESPN or someone else would lure him away. And that goes for the editor...

This never happened to Al Gore. The money quote: "Perhaps the anger will subside. I hope it does. But there really should be kind of a zone for families to not get caught up in this.” Yeah; too bad there's not a Senator in D.C. representing Minnesota who could address issues such as this.

Oh my : A North Carolina-based US Marine was arrested at Logan Airport yesterday after federal transportation screeners discovered an undeclared semiautomatic weapon, ammunition, and bomb-making materials in his checked baggage, authorities said. Marine Corporal Justin W. Reed was in Boston on a layover from Las Vegas and was bound for Charlotte, officials said. The materials in his bags apparently eluded detection at the Las Vegas airport and were discovered in Boston only because baggage handlers inadvertently routed his arriving luggage to baggage claim rather than onto his connecting flight, Transportation Security Administration spokeswoman Ann Davis said. "They put it on the baggage carousel as if he was staying in Boston," Davis said. "Because it was placed on the carousel, which introduced it into a public area, that required TSA to screen it before it was allowed back on a flight." Davis said the TSA was "actively investigating" why the illicit ma...

The one guy who thinks that Barack Obama and George W. Bush are the same. See what happens when you only have one Senator representing your state? Miss America was due for a blond rush ; just hope there's no compromising pictures. A look back at Columbine . I won't doubt this 76ers team ever again. I'd say this is ironic considering our past treatment regarding "enemy combatants," but I don't think anyone would get it.

There are two kinds of people ... 10 Secrets of the effortlessly thin . Not everybody knows about late night cable. Ah, love . The "Big Prankster" gets a taste of his own medicine . Personally, I'd be happy to date a rich, successful woman . Damn you, Matthew McConaughey ; damn you. Good thing I never really liked ThunderCats . Fred Kaplan on the best way to tackle pirates .

That's 34 electorial votes the GOP will never be able to garnish in future presidential elections.

Even Batman is taking a hit.

Apparently prisons aren't the urine-filled hellholes the movies make them out to be : Eric Brown wanted lobster, and as a gang leader in a Maryland state prison, he seemed to think he was entitled to it. After all, with the help of prison employees, the inmate already had access to champagne and Grey Goose, federal prosecutors said yesterday. In a phone call this month to his wife, as investigators secretly listened in, Brown complained that his smuggling operation had come up short -- that he had to settle for salmon with shrimp and crab imperial. And, prosecutors said, he asked her for a "good cigar" to go with his top-shelf vodka. Brown is among two dozen defendants, four of them current or former state prison employees, charged with drug conspiracy and other offenses in indictments unsealed yesterday. U.S. Attorney Rod J. Rosenstein called the investigation the biggest federal probe of prison corruption in Maryland in recent memory. Prosecutors said the gang known as ...

Michelle Malkin's version of the Tea Party Timeline . Jane Hamsher's version of the Tea Party Timeline . Can you spot the differences?

When businesses start hiring again and putting people back to work, the tea bagging protesters will calm down. Until then, President Obama would do well to keep them on his radar .

This and this could mean curtains for Boston's championship hopes. YouTube vs. Hulu (why?). Good news for the big banks (I guess) but what about the smaller, local ones? Um, " yay ?" Talk about a world of grey: we're in this country fighting terrorists, but when an earthquake hits , our troops switch to rescue mode. It's just funny how complex this world really is.

You can't say that the animosity toward Barack Obama does not contain an element of race. And while the TV talking heads won't admit it, it's that element that makes this variation of animosity different than those directed at past presidents. Or, as Turkana puts it: They Hate Him Because He’s Black I deliberately use the word black rather than the words African American. The latter lacks the proper emotional value. It is cultural and geographical. The former is visceral. Bigotry is not subtle. It is primal. It is not about ideas. It is irrational. He is smarter and more educated and more articulate than they. A self-made man, he represents everything they would claim to value. But he looks different, to them. They hate him because he looks different. They hate him because he is dark. In “Western” “Culture,” the very words black and dark have powerfully negative value. They often are used as synonyms for the sinister. They hated President Clinton, and tried to destroy him. ...

From Michael Lee : Arenas walked in and noticed that Antawn Jamison's clothes were placed in the prime, extra large, solo locker room spot near the door. Arenas stopped and looked at Jamison and said, "No." "You're not sitting there, Gilbert," Jamison said. "My stuff is already there." "We can move it," Arenas said. "You better not touch my stuff," Jamison said as he grabbed a roll of tape from the training table. "Gilbert," Jamison said, while Arenas grabbed a seat in Jamison's locker room stall. Jamison did his best Randy Johnson and fired the tape at Arenas, but was a bit off target. Arenas grabbed Jamison's Louis Vuitton duffle bag, placed it in front of his chest and said, "Go ahead, hit the Louis." "That was too light," Jamison said of the tape, as he rubbed his shoulder. "I almost threw my arm out. I need something heavier." Jamison then told McGee to give him one of the ora...

As yesterday's protesters come to realize that the noise they made probably didn't change a damn thing , it's worth noting that President Obama did bring up the issue of taxes yesterday : Obama used Tax Day, a national ritual of public frustration due to the confusing tax code, to underscore his drive to cut taxes for many Americans while increasing spending to jolt the United States out of its worst recession in decades... [snip] ...Obama is pushing a $3.5 trillion federal budget plan that Republicans and some Democrats say carries too much deficit spending and too few tax cuts. "My administration has taken far-reaching action to give tax cuts to the Americans who need them, while jump-starting growth and job creation in the process," Obama said at a White House event with a group of workers and business owners. White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said Obama had already cut taxes for 95 percent of Americans and would stick to his pledge of no higher taxes for anyo...

Even in this shortened season format, there were bound to be LOST episodes that were less-than-stellar. Although some thought differently , I felt the writers failed in giving us a great story about a fascinating character . I mean, you have a guy who can communicate with the dead; how can possibly make that boring? Well, for starters, introduce yet another character with Daddy Issues. Then portray him as suddenly interested in seeing his father in one flashback, even though in the previous one it didn't seem that he could care less. Also, put his powers into question by having him (1) con a guy who grieving for his lost son and (2) compare his abilities with that of a crazy rich guy. Top it off with him being asked to deliver a dead body that he has little interest in even talking to, and you've got the Most Boring Episode About a Quirky Power Ever. It doesn't help that the episode involves Kate running her mouth, Jack embracing his inner janitor, Juliet apparently on medi...

Using the Boston Tea Party as a cover for anti-Obama protests is one thing. But middle-class folk fighting on the behalf of the rich is something else entirely, which is why it's entertaining that Billionaries for Bush was around to participate in yesterday's circus.

I really can't blame Nadya Suleman for trying to profit from the "Octomom" name . Really, who else uses it? And who else do you think about when you hear that name? And do I think she had eight (more) children just so she could cash in on the name. Hardly. So let her have it; it's either this or more (gasp!) government assistance.

A hotel killer ? Jesus. Another celebrity reality show, but this one made actually entertain . We were all witnesses . Gov. Palin learns that you can't quite go back home . Keep It Moving: Obama focuses on his trip to Mexico. Put the scalpel down; your services are no longer required . What the hell , Caps? Not as much bling as in years past (the economy is hurting everyone).

I suppose one reason we should at least enforce the gun laws we already have is to prevent them from being used in non-American-related activities : HOUSTON — John Phillip Hernandez, a 24-year-old unemployed machinist who lived with his parents, walked into a giant sporting goods store here in July 2006, and plunked $2,600 in cash on a glass display counter. A few minutes later, Mr. Hernandez walked out with three military-style rifles. One of those rifles was recovered seven months later in Acapulco, Mexico , where it had been used by drug cartel gunmen to attack the offices of the Guerrero State attorney general, court documents say. Four police officers and three secretaries were killed. Although Mr. Hernandez was arrested last year as part of a gun-smuggling ring, most of the 22 others in the ring are still at large. Before their operation was discovered, the smugglers had transported what court documents described as at least 339 high-powered weapons to Mexico over a year and a h...

There's apparently a link between diabetes and dementia. Oh crap . With their children being born in the US , the immigration issue isn't that easy to address. Whither the minority-owned banks ? From creator of the "Magic Bullet" to prominent Republican to "moderate" to target .

In a sense, this is a bewitching hour of sorts; the time between raising hell over the Department of Homeland Security's latest report (I mean: damn !)and simultaneously promoting and scaring people over the "Tea Parties." The time when those who oppose "Big Government" (read: either President Obama, the Democratic Party, liberals/progressives, a combination of the three or all of the above) are preparing for what they promise to be an event bigger than the Million Man March , the 2006 LA protests , the anti-war movement and the current protests against the banks combined. The biggest link between the two events is the sense that "right wing extremism" and "conservatism" has somehow come to mean the same thing (at least, judging by the various reactions ) despite President Obama's statements to the contrary. Obama has been careful not to accuse his critics of being anti-American (unlike his predecessor), but at the same time he'...

It's pretty amazing what propaganda can do for a players cause, one way or the other. Gilbert Arenas, for all intensive purposes, hasn't played a meaningful game for what seems to be two seasons. He's not a team cancer, he's not going to screw up the chemistry of the locker room -- he's simply a player who loves to play the game of basketball. He's not your average player. He likes the spotlight, and he's random. But I've never gotten the impression that he's uncoachable. With this team "hopefully" being healthy, playoffs have to be considered pretty likely. That being said, Flip's greatest challenge will be getting this team past the first round of the playoffs . All of this getting along with Arenas stuff isn't relevant. If this team is playing well, none of it will be an issue. If the team doesn't get out of the first round, then it's just a new face same result. If thats the case, then the spotlight should shine nice an...

" We have decided to call off the rally today because many brothers and sisters have been hurt and killed . We don't want everybody to suffer the same. And we will not allow more deaths." "I have never returned and I'm not going back . I am not giving one cent to Castro." “ They’ll do better now in terms of what it costs to raise money than they can for the rest of the year. I don’t think the rest of this year will be good.” " Our data suggest that depression is an important and emerging risk factor for heart failure among patients with coronary heart disease." "It does not explain why writers, like myself, were told by Amazon reps that our books were being classified as 'adult products.'" "I am honored and humbled by this close victory , and I'm looking forward to getting to work as soon as possible." "Talking to the ball is something I started to do when I turned pro." "We lost our voice today....

Whatever the Wizards are doing, BF's Pradamaster has some (very good) suggestions .

I’m still having trouble grasping how the right can view liberals as weak, tottering, appeasers of Socialism, yet still fear their foreboding presence at a political rally. It parallels their thoroughly illogical perception of President Obama as lacking the courage or strength to be an effective leader, yet he is also a tyrannical despot plotting to enslave America and bend the world to his will. -- Mark from Newscorpse . And as a bonus, from DU's Top Ten : For what it's worth, Cavuto defended Fox News's blatant promotion of the teabagging events, claiming last week that, "We are are going to be in the middle of these protests because at Fox, we do not pick and choose these rallies and protests. We were there for the Million Man March, even though, as I pointed out, it turned out to be well shy of a million men." Which is pretty impressive given that the Million Man March happened in 1995 and Fox News didn't go on the air until 1996.

Dave is right: this is a good quote . Oh, and BLOG-E-OH !

All I can say is the guy is milking the attention he's getting for all it's worth : NEW YORK (AP) -- Fox News Channel's latest sensation is taking a comedy act on the road. Glenn Beck says he will do a live comedy show over six nights, starting June 1 in Denver. He calls himself a "poor man's Seinfeld." Beck will mix stand-up comedy with observations from a modern-day reimagining of Thomas Paine's 1776 pamphlet "Common Sense." Why So Serious ?

Not exactly a cure, but still good news on the AIDS front. I'm pretty sure most of the time they're thinking , " Feed me ," " This looks chewable ," and " I think your leg is flirting with me ." America's Instant Way to Get Military Cred : order the killing three pirates . Did people really think Obama was going to start freaking out, and curl up into a little ball while whispering, "Let Joe handle it?" Another shooting, another parent unaware of what the hell their kid was doing . Say what you want : Phil and Tiger are the reason people watch golf. China plays catch-up .

Traits billionaries share . Commercials I couldn't make if I was high and drunk. Teabag party . The Pope finally comes to his senses .

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White faculty are suing black colleges for (allegedly) not hiring them . A historically black college in South Carolina has been sued after three white faculty members say they were passed over for jobs or let go for because of their race, federal officials announced Wednesday. Alleging that Benedict College “engaged in unlawful practices,” the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission also said that the Columbia school had agreed to pay $55,000 to each of the three former instructors. Under a settlement reached between Benedict and the EEOC, the school also agreed to remind staff about its employment policy prohibiting discrimination, provide administrators, faculty and staff with training and make periodic reports to the EEOC. In its complaint, the EEOC says art instructor Argiri Aggelopoulou in December 2004 applied for but did not receive a position as assistant art history professor, adding she was instead passed over in favor of a black instructor. In March 2005, Benedict did ...