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Mo'Nique's makeover . The benefits of a motivational president . The real-life version of LOST continues . Which states will recover from the recession the earliest ? " Reluctant shareholders ."

"I stopped doing them," she said. "They are terrible, they are bad. They are not funny, so they shouldn't be a romantic comedy and most of the time they are not romantic. So they shouldn't be called a romantic comedy. They should be called that other kind of film." -- Sandra Bullock , on why she laid off romantic comedies until now (although she's not calling this movie a romantic comedy).

It looks like American prisons are already holding over 300 terrorists , according to a story by Fred Kaplan.

In conjunction with this , there's this : When the nation learned in 2005 that Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito had belonged to a Princeton University alumni organization that advocated a cap on the number of women and minorities allowed at Princeton, the news media quickly circled the wagons to protect the Bush nominee. When Alito was asked by Senate Democrats about his membership in the organization -- which he touted while applying for a job in the Reagan administration -- the media denounced them for going too far. The merest hint of a suggestion of an implication that Alito was a member of a racist organization was shouted down as an unfair slander; Democrats were pilloried for making Alito's wife cry with their inappropriate questions (though Mrs. Alito didn't actually start crying until Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham took to the microphone). Gloria Borger, for example, said that the pertinent question was not whether Alito agreed with the Concerned Alumni of Prince...

Are you willing to cut off your junk for the person you love ? One man was.

I'm still looking for all the free-market capitalists who support Obama's GM move . This was supposed to be the way it works, right? Patriot Squirrel . Finally waking up to the urgent need to reform and standardize education. Google e-books ? Interesting. R.I.P.; Millvina Dean . Abortion doctor shot in church . So someone who objected to this guy aborting babies (presumably on religious reasons) shot him dead...in a church . Because pissing off Eminemn is always the way to go . For health care reform , Obama's got the people on his side.

Has it really been four years? I guess it has.

We can call waterboarding torture now, right ? Even the dictionary has failed us . How stupid becomes a political issue in five easy steps . The Michael Steele post (#3) is classic . "Judge-as-umpire" fail . Sometimes, dying young and at the top of your game is a blessing . Strangely silent .

He may just end up saving your life .

Former Wizards coach Eddie Jordan opts for the more established Philadelphia 76ers .