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Fox News still doesn't get it .

2nd best costume .

Awesomesauce .

Change isn't easy . Pakistan in the spotlight . Rams win one . A celebrity couple should be able to afford a better costume . For example ... Snowtober in Boston .

Insurance you probably don't need . Nas isn't the biggest fan of the Internet . Disney Princesses come to life . Why Pat Buchanan should not be taken seriously . Probably didn't think birth control could hurt teeth , did you? " Gun insurance ?" Hmm... One thing about McCain: he's been wrong on pretty much anything Iraq War-related . Dealing with holiday debt . Fox News has made a dangerous enemy . The time Michael Moore had a lot of money .

Juan Cole gives us a picture of what this country would look like if land distribution was like our wealth distribution .

The more I learn about the Patriot Act, the more it seems like some twisted, bizarro version of the Freedom of Information Act, where instead of the government being upfront with the American people what it's doing, the government is empowered to learn and know everything they want about every single citizen, regardless of whether or not they actually did something (or plan on doing something) wrong. Check the infographic and see if I'm being paranoid about this. One thing's for sure: it's not being used to fight terrorism (and if it is, it's failing miserably).

Proof that, given enough time, even the British can change (but man, what a wait): (Reuters) - Centuries of British royal discrimination came to an end Friday after Commonwealth leaders agreed to drop rules that give sons precedence as heir to the throne and bar anyone in line for the crown from marrying a Roman Catholic . The 16 countries that have Queen Elizabeth as their monarch agreed to the changes put forward by British Prime Minister David Cameron , who had called the rules of succession outdated. "The idea that a younger son should become monarch instead of an elder daughter simply because he is a man, or that a future monarch can marry someone of any faith except a Catholic, this way of thinking is at odds with the modern countries that we've all become," Cameron told reporters. The agreement came on the sidelines of a Commonwealth summit presided over by the Queen in the remote west Australian city of Perth.

( pic via ). A sword-wielding cat or a virtually immortal Justin Timberlake ? Hmmm ... We could use a feel-good miracle story . That nine-picture Marvel deal (in addition to being a Jedi) might have helped . Better than no progress at all . " Perfect Storm ."

Let me start by saying this: you're bound to get a more substantial argument and better facts to back this up from sites that focus on politics. Me? I'm a guy that dabbles in it from a layman's POV. And really, it's the laymen (and women) that the politicians, pundits and media bobble-heads are constantly trying to trick...er, I mean understand in this grand experiment known as The Political Process. But when I see stories like this , I have to ask myself, Why is Bachmann's base abandoning her? She's not that far from Palin from an ideological perspective, and the Tea Party adores Palin. Why isn't Bachmann getting the same love? I mean, seriously, she was a better known quantity than Perry, Huntsman and Cain. She's more popular in her party than Gingrich, Romney and Santorum. Then two things popped into my head. First, was the memory of another conservative Republican who said all the right things, yet could never seem to gain any real traction (read: vo...