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I think I've cut my typo rate down a full .08 percent. Woo-hoo! (I maintain the typographical errors as some sort of charming artfulness.)

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Tunisa — How it went down.
Â .. Hillary Clinton or wikileaks.Â One or the other.
Â Â BUT

Tom the Dancing Bug:Â Huck Finn to modern day sensibilities

Martin Luther King, Jr “I Have a Dream” powerpoint presentation

The Remote possibility of a Democratic Senator being elected in Utah.Â But it’s in the polls.

William Gaines on To Tell the Truth

Health Care Industry looking forward to keeping the Health Care bill in place

The Conservative list of the Top 10 Presidents
Â Â … Reagan!

Baby Doc returns to Haiti with Hero’s Welcome

Lunatic Fringe is right sometimes

So.Â Davis.Â Schwarzenager.Â And what was that recall about, again?

China’s City of the Future

Â Olympia Snowe to be challenged by every Tea Party imaginable
Scott Brown not so much
Kay Bailey Hutchinson pre-empts Tea Party primary by retiring

Rush Limbaugh says about a dozen incredibly offensive things

Oil Commission makes its recommendations… Congressional committee headed by Doc Hastings.

Great Theatre burnt down.Â Always a bummer.

Rhode Island Governor Lincoln Chaffee keeps state workers off of Talk Radio.

Any relation to Cleon?Â Apparently, yes… nephew.Â Small world.

Taking the obligatory andÂ perhaps morbidly curious gander at the Congress-woman Gifford Terrorist shooter’s youtube collection.Â Â . . more complete collection here, if you must.
Â “He told me that she opened up the floor for questions and he asked a question. The question was, ‘What is government if words have no meaning?'”Â Giffords’ answer, whatever it was, didn’t satisfy Loughner. “He said, ‘Can you believe it, they wouldn’t answer my question,’ and I told him, ‘Dude, no one’s going to answer that,'” Tierney recalls.
The man who ran against Gifford and his congressional campaign. “Does This Look Like a RINO to you?”

I think this may be my new favorite Sports feature:Â the NY Times Sports Replay slide-shows when it goes “Today in Sports” Wide World ofÂ everything.
Interesting Onion headline flip:Â Just yesterday this read “Saints Given First Round Bye”; today it reads “Saints Lose First Round Bye“.Â (Blah blah blah “We Shocked the World” blah blah blah)

A review of the new Oprah Network.Â “MAKE IT STOP!!!”

Rudy Giuliani — if he’s running, he’s not getting anywhere.

John Birchers Triumphant:Â AcceptedÂ / Recommended Fluoridation amounts lowered

How money will slush through Washington.

Let parents vote on behalf of each of their kids.

On a 257-159 vote, the House approved a fix after Reps. Pete Sessions of Texas and Mike Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania missed taking the oath but went on to vote as sworn-in members. The solution nullifies their first five votes but leaves other actions intact.

Andrew Wakefield:Â The British Medical Journal on Wednesday accused a disgraced British doctor of committing an “elaborate fraud” by faking data in his studies linking vaccines with autism.

Seattle Seahawks Coach Pete CarrollÂ Optimistic Seattle Seahawks can Lose the Next Three Games to have chance at Superbowl.

Shepard Fairey gets back to his roots.

The Nixon — Kissinger tape conversation about a hypothetical Soviet Holocaust was taken out of context.

Newly discovered documents have revealed a bizarre footnote to the history of the Second World War: a Finnish mutt whose imitation of the Hitler salute enraged the Nazis so deeply that they started an obsessive campaign against the dog’s owner.

Texas has budget problems, like everyone else.

George Washington: Architect of Big Government.

Note that the Urban Popular Worldwide in 2000 was 46.7 percent.Â In 2010, it is 51.3 percent.Â
Now, oddly, just after I read this blog post today, I read this weird news story.Â Holy Crap — It’s the same trend!

Nebraska to stop Obama from winning in that state again.

Obama caves on referencing “End of Life Counselling” in Medicare details.

Kirk Cameron brought onto Anderson Cooper to discuss the Bird and Fish deathsÂ to discuss the “Left Behind” angle of the story.

Seattle Seahawks have less of a chance of winning the Superbowl than they did at the start of the season.

Huckleberry Finn with that word removed now on sale.

John Quincy Adams’s Hollow Earth leanings.

Rich Lowry: “America, Fuck Yeah!”

CongressmanÂ Darrell Issa asks Businesses which Regulation they want to get rid of.

Nickelodian brings Illuminati Propaganda to the kids.

Christine O’Donnell will fix up and amend her campaign records

Go Seahawks! No.Â Really.

Brian Sendelbach threatens to sue Conan O’brien for use of “Black Aquaman”.Â Which, I think might actually be owned by DC.

Soldier Vows to Quit Military due to DADT Repeal.Â A World Net Daily Exclusive!

Twitter item of the day!

Christine O’Donnell, at the end of her political career

Rosie the Riveter is dead

Roger Ebert believes this Blizzard video should win an Oscar

15 MPAA Ratings screw-upsÂ AND:Â Act Four. […]
Regular This American Life contributor Dan Savage, […] finds a TV program so dirty, so weird, and so perverted that he won’t let his son watch itâ€”even though it’s a kids’ show, made for kids, and broadcast on a network for kids
Man Quits Job, Makes Living Suing E-Mail Spammers

Read the comments about Assange on prison planet.Â Wait.Â Israel?

Michelle Bachman:Â “Gore Vidal made me a Republican.”

Austerity

Haley Barbour’s Klu Klux Klan — er — “White Citizens Council” — er Conservative Citizens Council.
… which Jimmy Carter refused.
more history
If the Klan was as low profile in his hometown as the governor suggests, the real reason may be that the Citizensâ€™ Council rendered it not so much persona non grata as simply superfluous.
(Note: a current complaint of their group is against a Marvel Comics movie with a black Thor.)

Why Jon Stewart is not going to get the 9/11 First Responders Bill Past the Finish Line, as Robert Gibbs hopes: His Show is in reruns.

The End of Civilization.

What If Winsor McCay drew Superman Comics?

What’s Glenn Beck been saying lately?

Bob Dylan: Midwest Isolationist.Â I… guess.

China bans English.

Oh the Suspense is killing me!
Mitch Daniels will Decide in April
Or May
Oh…

Oregon: 42K people offÂ from Congressional Seat #6.

A US white supremacist group (Council of Conservative Citizens) has called for a boycott of the Kenneth Branagh-directed superhero movie Thor on the grounds that a black actor has been cast in the role of a Norse god.Â Ignore many other inconsistencies between Marvel comic rendition and the Mythology.Â (bit more)

Cuba banned Michael Moore because of too-mythically good portrait of Health Care System

Stripped bare, here’s what the deal says about the two parties: Republicans care much more about tax cuts for the rich than about any of their specific arguments about what’s impeding recovery, while Democrats don’t have the votes to really put their preferred policies into place, and so are left settling for policies that they don’t think will work that well and, in some cases, don’t think will work at all. What we ended up getting was better than I expected, but it’s not a deal that anyone with a coherent view of the jobs crisis would’ve designed.

The death of North Dakota’s Non-Partisan League

Christmas Gifts for Cavemen

The “Late Night” Wars

Online Retailers selling at different prices based on what’s in your cookies

Are someÂ Suicide Bombers Suicidal?

Who is this would be terrorist?Â And isn’t the Media God?

Joe Manchin skips out on DADT vote

Michelle Bachman is sitting on the Intelligence Committee

Classic MediaÂ Sensationalism technique:Â Â Bill O’Reilly Asks Whether Media Should Air Graphic Shooting… After Airing it 5 Times

NY Times predicts 80 years out:Â What will 2011 be like?

Earmark titles used as punchlines, even if they make sense

Question: Where’s the ACLU on (pet conservative issue meant to expose hypocrisy)?Â Answer:Â They’re everywhere.

Performing for the Pope

Peter Defazio says Obama Push for vote based on “Saving his Presidency“.Â See too Clinton on NAFTA circa 1994.

Colorado sheriff’s online database mistakenly revealed the identities of confidential drug informants and listed phone numbers, addresses and Social Security numbers of suspects, victims and others interviewed during criminal investigations, authorities said.

The People Who Mattered 2010

Can Ron Paul take down Sarah Palin?Â No.

Faded Political Movements that demand a comeback:Â The locofocos

The Great Tea Party accomplishment: Plunge Nassau County into Fiscal Chaos

Arizona seeks to ban Sharia, Canon, Karmic Laws

America, Fading Republic

Fantastic News for Germany

We’re behind China?

“Energy innovation is not a nationalistic game. If tomorrow some other country invented cheap energy with no CO₂ output, would that be a bad day or a good day? For anybody who’s reasonable, that would be, like, the best day ever. If all you care about is America’s relative position, every day since the end of World War II has really been bad for you.” — Bill Gates

One Party Russia

New Directions in Archie Comics:Â But within just a few months, Riverdale has turned from a 20^th-century middle-American paradise into a 21^st-century middle-class hell.

Say goodbye to the Metrodome

Good Luck in battling this regime.