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Portland State Professor accuses student of being an FBI Agent; Student has weird history of suggesting to fellow students how to make molotov cocktails

Jimmy Kimmel rebuts Tancredo’s “Literacy Test” remark

Impeach Roberts, like they used to Impeach Warren

Should Obama ditch his “Chicago Team“?

NFL tries to copyright “Who Dat”?
Superbowl Ad reunites Dave with Jay
Puppy Bowl referee query with Kitten half time.
the 44 Superbowl s versus the 44 Presidents

The problem with sublimated profanity
The history of the apostrophe

The problem with the Conspiratorialists: they suspect everyone and each of their own of being “Gate Keepers”.Â Black Sun Gazette versus Alex Jones.

Disrupting Urinal Norms in Mumbai by putting up the Gods at Urinating level

Tom Tancredo comes out for Jim Crowe laws, apparently.

WHAT IF Wes Anderson directed Spiderman?

Germany keeps Hitler out of print

Iraqi Government restricts media

NY 23 drama reheats.Â Note: the political background of the Mass Senator just elected, beloved by “tea party” — more liberal than the political background of the Republican candidate overthrown from NY 23 — called a “raving leftist”.

The Secret, Oprah, is that the program is liable to lead to manslaughter.

250th Death Row Inmate Exoneration

One of the main sources of bestiality videos gets cut off as Netherlands votes for a ban

Contemplate the Voter Ignornace.Â (I am embarrassed to say I got one of the questions wrong).
… No.Â Really.

Political commercial of the “huh?”
… No.Â Really

Obama speaks out about Uganda Gay laws at C-Street Function Prayer Service.Â Maggie, whoever she is, denies special brand of Fundamentalist Christian hate behind that one.

Mike Dice urges boycott of Superbowl and instead read a conspiratorial book.Â Yeah, good luck with that one.

Lawuit demands comic book retailer destroy all copies of this stupid comic parodying quasi-known figure, retailer refuses.Â
I almost want to say Wertham lives!, but this appears a different kettle of fish.

Illinois redux.Â Adlai Stevenson urges Dem gubernatorial candidate to try third party run in wake of a less than desirible lt. gov. candidate, ala Stevenson’s not at all successful 1986 bolt when a Larouchie won the right to run with him.

Scientologists invade Haiti, and waste everyone’s time
… uh huh.

Frank Luntz spells out how to kill regulatory reform.

Let’s watch Norm Macdonald’s classic Moth Joke on the Tonight Show with Conan O’brien again.

Palin and a sense of victimology.Â Y’know, Emanuel used the word “Retarded” to describe liberals, right?

Here’s that Bill Watterson interview.Â Interesting to note, the other two strip creators coming out of the 80s — Berke Breathed of Bloom County and Gary Larson of The Far Side — kinda had the same idea about just ending their creation.Â well, Breathed maybe not.

18th Century French Libelling

Uguanda Gay tells his story

Sarah Palin’s endorsement good news for Rand Paul, and the “Liberty Movement”.Â The Liberty Movmenet being synonomous with Ron Paul fans.

Image of the day.Â a Trojan Horse image for story about China hacking Internet by way of cyber-war.

Cosmopolitan Magazine 1906 — The Senate Sucks.
…. and here I thought Cosmopolitan’s past looked like this.

FBI, Telecoms… Wire-tap laws… you know the rest

The surreal thing is the cognitive dissonance I felt when I first heard this story, with a favorable slant toward these erstwhile Baptist Church Child Kidnapping crew.

Your classic bit of Johnny Carson — Reagan bit, or Abbott and Costello

Kim Jong Il Enjoys Art Performance by Itinerant Youth Art Squad

Congratulations, Angry Populistes.

James O’keefe.Â The Future.

TSA worker tried to make customer his “Sex Slave“.Â Note: that and this as exhibit 1 and 2 for why I’m paranoid about the body scan images.

Weekly Standard engages in some wistful Clinton revisionist (for their standpoint) memories.

Harpers opens up the archives for some 1959 and 1966 Howard Zinn

Are you kidding me? Obama Kicks Butt against the GOP.Â Money line:
MSNBC’s Luke Russert, who was on the scene in Baltimore, relayed that a Republican official and other GOP aides had confided to him that allowing the “cameras to roll like that” was a “mistake.”
U! S! A!Â U! S! A!

What if the Cable News Industry had been around during FDR’s time?

An ongoing battle between Rupert Murdoch, Silvio Berlusconi and Muammar al-Gaddafi involves adult television, an ultraviolent war film, and lots of money and bitterness flying around.

Focus on the Family Tim Tebow ad gets to be aired on Superbowl.Â Gay Dating Service ad does not.

Now that those tax increases were passed, the rich are clogging the highways into Vancouver.Â Or, maybe Chicago?

Well, here’s your (off to the fringes though it may be) politicizing of Osama’s weird Climate Change charges

James O’keefe, the ACORN Pimp, ladies and Gentlemen!

Virginia School system to not teach Anne Frank. Explicit sex.Â (my 6th grade reading of the passages got through that particular passage in a read-aloud day, with the teacher ending the reading with “Okay.Â That’s the silliness, and we now move past the giggling section.)Â As though an honest diary of an adolescent isn’t going to have such a theme in it.

Political cartoons for ya.

The Colonel Mustard of Citizens United and what it is that was the Candlestick.

John Edwards’s quite a dick.

South Carolina Lt. Gov. Andre Bauer is a bigger dick.

School that threw out the dictionary because it defined “oral sex” now forming a committee to decide whether dictionaries that reference sexual terms should be banned.

Remembering Conan O’brien’s tenure on The Tonight Show — greatest Tonight Show Host since Groucho Marx (hosted in between Paar’s two stints.)Â Classic item:Â Norm Macdonald’s moth joke.

Nickel tax for food.Â What counts as food?

Why isn’t the Tea Party anti-war?

it leaves about three months to commence accusing Uncle Sam of utilizing Haitian disgrace to extend its power and exploit the planet’s disadvantaged just a little more

Have we found the new Earth?

Glenn Beck studies the Beatles

Remembering Laurie Mylroie.Â But we already knew all that.Â Relevant point about the counter-veiling comparison toward Van Jones.

Chip Berlet on Liberal Fascism

Jughead Jones: Male Prostitute

regarding Obama’s new banking regulations:Â Loopholes Aplenty, and we’re shoving right through them.

Oliver Stone on Hitler: right?

California Legislature to pursue Single Payer.Â Will Governor Brown sign it?

The Paleo-Future of Computers

Ron Paul: CIA runs the Military

National Enquirer submits its John Edwards coverage to Pulitzer Committee

Scott Brown endorses Birther House candidate

Steve Doocy is fighting a Holy War
… And

Conan O’brien’s new character: 2009 2009 Kentucky Derby Winner Mine that Bird wearing a mink Snuggie watching restricted NFL Superbowl footage.
… The Ken Burns documentary

The House knows what it needs to do.Â Pass the National Romney Plan.

Oath Keeper leader (one of those right wing fringe orgs that are bubbling about) arrested for child rape, and he also has a stolen grenade launcher.

All White Basketball League Forms.Â Er?

White Nationalism hits the National Review Senate race analysis

Citizens United case decision throws us back to the days of the Robber Barons

“Pull your Pants UP!”Â I didn’t work with MLK to see drooping pants.

Good News on Obama.Â Volcker Prevails.

Medvedev Appoints Krasnoyarsk Governor to Head New North Caucasus Federal District.Â No I haven’t a clue what its implications are.

Conan O’brien: Burning Down the House

Chavez a big Art Bell listener.

What the Texas Board of Education textbook committee will wrath

Starbucks opens up logoless “Not Starbucks”Â store
Jay Leno shills.