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Poll: Bullshit Is Most Important Issue For 2008 Voters

Totally great. Hit it.
Poll: Bullshit Is Most Important Issue For 2008 Voters

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Stewart and Colbert return

Looks like we’ll have Indecision: 2008 after all. Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert will be back on the air tomorrow night.
Loved this quote:
Two weeks ago, both shows announced their imminent return, then added, in typically ironic fashion: “We would like to return to work with our writers. If we cannot, we would like to [...]

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Well if Chuck’s aboard…

Can you say kiss of death, complete with a side of shirtless roundhouse kick?
Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee’s plan to eliminate all income taxes and replace them with a flat consumption tax has the support of martial arts guru Chuck Norris but few economic analysts.
In other news, are you watching American Gladiators right now? [...]

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Where Gene Simmons has been

I thought he was working on another pathetic, deplorable reality show but it turns out he’s just been serving as dictator of Libya.

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Stinky

Former PM Brian Mulroney (whose political legacy would most honestly be summarized in the sentence, “I was sort of like a dumber, less sophisticated Reagan, and I have one of those Affleck bum chins — and, um, plus also I decided it would be cool to tax books and bring in the GST”) will today [...]

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Becoming Adolf

Tucked in amongst the perfume strips and Ralph Lauren ads of Vanity Fair, I found an actual article. And it was a corker.
Part cultural history, part personal essay, and all laugh-out-loud hilarious, Rich Cohen’s Becoming Adolf is a flat-out awesome read. Let’s just say it’s not your average article about a New York Jew [...]

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Stop the presses

Oh my goodness. I was shocked, I tell you — shocked — to read that Richard Roberts, son of integrity-challenged charlatan shitheel noted educator and pastor Oral Roberts, may be involved in some illegal activity.
Richard Roberts is accused of illegal involvement in a local political campaign and lavish spending at donors’ expense, including numerous home [...]

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Kite Runner

There’s a crazy scene brewing around the movie version of bestselling novel The Kite Runner. Apparently the parents of some of the Kabul-based child stars of the film are worried for the safety of their kids, so they will be moved to safety outside the country.
It’s all pretty funky, and definitely not the sort of [...]

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Stop them press thingies

ABC News has released the unexpurgated text of U.S. President George W. Bush’s speech to the U.N. Notable, as it turns out, is the fact that phonetic pronunciations of obscure words, countries, etc. are included for his mental convenience.
Think about the implications: His awesome rhetorical panache and entirely credible conviction aside, this transcript suggests [...]

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Political Discourse

On the eve of the provincial leaders debate here in Ontario, here are five things which, if you’re going by the playbook, you should never say in the course of a political debate:

“Well, but with respect, you would say something like that, you silly cockmaster.”
“If I’m being honest, I’m really more of a tax and [...]

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