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A very informative and eye-opening breakdown .

He Who Shall Not Be Googled forgot that he wasn't at home with his buddies .

Spanish prostitutes lead the way .

When your injury-plagued, ego-driven center starts chucking threes, get pulls and hints that he'll still chuck threes , you've lost your team.

Seriously, who can get the scoop on a society as well as a stripper ? If the sports reporter moonlighted as a coach at a recreational center, would people be so prudish? 

Funny the things we make time for in a world like this.

Rush screwed up big time ...and Clear Channel is struggling to pick up the pieces . More evidence that James O'Keefe is a dirty pervert . I think every fan of the show secretly feels this way . Rick Santorum isn't as Catholic as he'd like the public to believe. McDonald's hires their first black CEO .

In honor of Obamacare's Bday I'm calling Medicare 'LBJ-Care,' Soc. Sec. 'FDR-Care' & tax cuts for millionaires 'W-Care.' -- John Fugelsang ( via )

Even as the evidence is (slowly) stacking up , American conservatives still want to halt the President's attempts to get the United States towards true energy independence .

"I haven't done that cameo yet. It's almost scary because they just give me a date. They'll say, ‘Stan, come over next Thursday for your cameo,' but they don't tell me what it is. So, I show up and they say, ‘Go to wardrobe.' In wardrobe, they say, ‘We want to get you a white shirt and a green sweater and a black zippered jacket,' and I'll say, ‘Don't bother, I'm wearing one.' And then, they say, ‘But, you can't wear yours!,' and they look around and get me the exact same thing, but I'm not allowed to wear my own. And I still don't know what my role will be. I go on the set and one minute before we're gonna shoot, the director says, ‘Okay, Stan, this is what I want you to do.' So, I don't know what is expected of me, until I get there, but of course, I do it magnificently." -- Stan Lee, on being in Iron Man 3 .

Not that much different from his old proposal.

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At this pace , we'll have a Charlton Heston look-alike screaming at a damaged Statue of Liberty in about 60 years. Bad news for Mitt Romney . So that's what those noises were . Good new for Newt Gingrich ? US Military does the math on a Israeli-Iranian conflict .

Think of this as a "Around the Internets" with a quasi-religious tone: You may be surprised to know what some of the Founding Fathers had to say regarding religion . Some reasons why dating some Christians can be more trouble than it's worth .

Via Democratic Underground .

I wouldn't consider all of these "joes" to be "average," but whatever. Moviegasm . Doonesbury's "controversial" strips .  Choking is a comics tradition .  Silicon Valley's race problem .  Robbing the cradle, or robbing the grave ?  A list LeBron James probably didn't want to be on .  Remember: Meghan McCain is a Republican .  New York Cop tries to downplay his raping .  Charity and "filthy rich" apparently don't mix . Better than any current reality show , IMHO.

After angering women, immigrants and non-Catholics, Rick Santorum has decided that there's one more group out there worth pissing off: those who like porn . Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum says that “America is suffering a pandemic of harm from pornography” because the Obama administration favors “pornographers over children.” In an undated statement on his official website, the former Pennsylvania senator promises that he will “vigorously” fight to make sure porn isn’t easily available in the U.S. “Pornography is toxic to marriages and relationships,” the statement says. “It contributes to misogyny and violence against women. It is a contributing factor to prostitution and sex trafficking.” I gotta ask Rick: is porn fucking up your love life? No? Well how do you figure it's screwing up other people's? Because honestly, I would wager that it's probably saving some relationships. In the end, it's about self control. People don't c...

Dad goes to school to pick up daughter, finds out daughter was made to do runs during basketball practice, proceeds to beat the crap out of assistant coach .

The Trailblazers seem to want to clean house big-time, getting rid of their former #1 pick and their coach back-to-back.

Let's face it: Nick Young and JaVale McGee were talented Even-Stevens at best, and they we not going to help the Wizards with their most important objective: getting John Wall to re-sign with the team after his rookie contract expires. Depending on who you ask, the team either broke even or righted the ship a bit . Me? I'm just happy that they won last night.

Cell phones makes us selfish ? "This is about finding out where the money is coming from. "This has been a source of enormous concern for a long time now. You have to ask the question, whether this is a prima facie case of material support for terrorism." "I think it's a pretty good bet that it will translate to humans," said Ulrike Heberlein of the University of California, San Francisco , who led the research. If so, " one can say we could now understand why a negative experience, such as a sexual rejection, could drive somebody to drink ."

According to Gawker, anyway .

The numerical results really show us something many have suspected: Mitt Romney will have a hard time in the South. Is it because he's Mormon? Is it because he finds it hard to relate to "the Common Man?" Who knows? Bottom line is he spent a whole bunch of money only to come in third. Social conservatives just aren't into him. I hear that the calls for Newt Gingrich to quit will get louder, so Rick Santorum can make it an official two-man race. Why? Gingrich makes a good point that Santorum is not the perfect conservative candidate. In truth, none of them are. Romney represents the establishment and wealthy components of the GOP. Santorum represents the social conservatives. Gingrich represents the intellectual punditry and fiscal conservative crowd (and that mainly comes from the fact that the budget was balanced under his Speakership; whether he was directly responsible for that is another matter). And Ron Paul represents the (mostly young) Republicans who don...

In a county in North Carolina, you have conservative prudes rejecting a state grant because the money is going to something remotely sexual (yet educational) in nature... while in California's L.A. a strip club donates money to a Little League to keep it afloat . Which has me thinking; would small government conservatives be so big on getting private sector help if said help came from places like strip clubs?

It seems like when the White House is GOP and the Congress is Democratic, there's always calls for compromise and acceptance. But when things are turned around (whether the GOP has all of Congress or even one Chamber) the mantra is that they are the opposition. The chart from this post seems to support that theory.

Stop trying to fight it ; you will be assimilated.

Sad ending for missing child . Before you consider that hip implant ... Always check the back seat . The phone hacking story continues to grow . Randy Moss is back in the NFL (for now). Mars isn't in the budget ?

As their views of President Obama and interracial marriage show .

"There's a difference between making fun of something and having fun with something, and we do the latter ." "He insinuated his food hadn't been prepared correctly but it seemed from his mind state , at that time, and that nobody could have done anything that would have been satisfying to him."  " Stay away from the mall."  “We should build environments where we know children will live or visit so that they're safe for children ."  “ This incident is tragic and shocking , and does not represent the exceptional character of our military and the respect that the United States has for the people of Afghanistan.”

( pic via ) Bill Maher: Democrats and Republicans both live in a bubble . How healthy women around the world live. Listen up, rich people ... Poor Scott Walker ... In some circles, this would be seen as potentially dangerous. This (NSFW) teacher proves that I just went to high school during the time of prudish educators.  Happy 15th, BTVS !  About bottled water .  Gotta Drink It All .

I would never have guessed the two pictures in this story are both of Elisabeth Moss (from Mad Men). I'm still not 100% convinced.

A question that needs an answer very soon .

If male legislators can make laws directly effecting women ...

Well, someone thinks so .

I have a real bombshell: sources tell me that when he was in kindergarten, Obama once pulled the pigtails of a blonde, blue-eyed girl. Clearly, he hates whites and the mainstream media is keeping this information from real Americans.  "midtown43," from a Gawker story highlighting the "scoop" that then-Harvard Barack Obama hugged a black professor that criticized white supremacist culture . 

We heard you the first time , Ms. Richards. When you don't fund the educational system , you get... I think anyone holding the office of POTUS can only do but so much quietly . Of course the advice is all about promoting on of his deals . That's who Trump is. Senate GOP still wanna drill . 100 years for this movie and this is what we get .

It's hard to do your job when you're limited to where you can go . Manning Watch has begun . This spider story would be cool if it wasn't real .

Of course , it would help if they actually passed something worth signing.

Seriously? No one asked her out in a year ? And she's using the fact that she's not home as the reason? So there's no guys on the movie/TV set? Or wherever she's been eating?  I really think this is, "No one I find attractive has asked me out in a year." Because believe me, if she stepped out of the Hollywood Bubble, she'd get some offers.

Mitt Romney leaves voters with the impression that his tax plan is incalculable ...at least until after he's elected president.

Now that my party, our unofficial spokesperson, and myself have been lambasted, I regret voting for a piece of legislation that would have undone contraception provisions .

Not Capital One; not for Rush .

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Clean up the church . What the hell , Disney? Now that's a mom . The next time someone tells you a fish story ...

Although Rush apologized (as only he can) he couldn't stop the bleeding . Combine that with Ms. Fluke's reaction - where she makes legitimate comments about the timing, medium and wording - and Rush was forced to keep going to the I'm Sorry Well. To that end, he has another target ( 1st it was liberals): rappers . I'll just let the great urban philosopher Chris Rock respond to how much rappers get away with:

The White House isn't just going to let Republicans attack them on gas prices , which is interesting considering that not too long ago Fox News was claiming quite the opposite .

Mars ! Apparently, Grover Norquist decided to cripple the American legislative process at a young age . All hail Steve Martin . Update your health rules .  Georgia wants to basically make it illegal to protest . The devil's in the ( fiscal ) details.  Everybody poops .  One reason why Republicans keep crying voter fraud. Whoa (read the comments by "Himmmm" before they disappear for the gut-punch).

  Rush Limbaugh actually apologized for saying something people found offensive . UPDATE : George Will slices and dices the GOP for their tepid response; Eric Boehlert reminds us that the fallout highlights the porous, flawed infrastructure of the GOP media machine .   

This is big and unprecedented for professional basketball . And while I can see some people react with, "I guess Khloe's gonna dump him now," for me it's just a really sad chapter in the story of a very talented player who was a major contributor to a championship team not too long ago.

Take note, GOP . Back to class . Damn it feels good to be a banksta . Keep an eye on Syria . Mitt's Romney's wife vs. Bill Clinton . All this time , and nobody's been able to get close.

I'm somewhere between Josh Marshall and Matt Taibbi .

Why is it OK to show a picture of a dead fetus to deter abortions, but it's wrong to show pictures of what smoking does to your lungs on cigarettes ?

Another reason why it's hard for Republicans to trust Mitt Romney. Putin doesn't seem to understand that democracy isn't about running government until you die. Tupac's Back ? Tebow and Swift ? Hmmm.... Don't call it a comeback ! Really, don't; he's got other stuff to worry about . The answer is , "They slowly died off after Clinton's impeachment." Where Rondo goes , the Celtics go. This better translate into , "The Avengers Movie will kick ass." Why it's hard for women to break into racing .