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“I’m dying in this fucking country-assed fucked-up town!”
That’s the plaintive… okay, angry… okay, slobbery… rant of a local reporter who just touched tonsils with an insect the size of a Hummer…and reacted on tape.
When I viewed this on Saturday June 14, the YouTube channel “documentedignorance“’s copy of the news-only tape had gotten over 25,000 views. [...]

You may or may not have heard that a Confederate flag the size of a semi-truck was unfurled at the intersection of I-75 and I-4 by the Sons of the Confederate Veterans the same day that Barack Obama officially clinched the Democratic Party nomination. While they claim it was coincidental as they had been [...]

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It’s premature to say that Obama hasn’t fallen into the same trap.  Promising AIPAC all of Jerusalem yesterday could easily constitute a major double speak if someone were to devote this much time to analyzing his [...]

Forget LeBron.  It is Barack’s moment in history.  The third black senator since Reconstruction is now the first black presidential nominee, according to ABC, Yahoo, and most every major news outlet’s projections.
Read the full text of his victory speech in St. Paul here.  Or watch the entire speech after the jump.

Let the games begin.

No one would ever claim Adam Sandler to be an elder statesmen of understanding and tolerance, but hidden behind the cooky, character-driven marketing strategy Columbia is using for You Don’t Mess With The Zohan is some surprisingly strong satire.
From a New York Times article on the film:
To the extent that “Zohan” deals with the intractable [...]

If you’ve ever watched The Wire, you have an appreciation for how it brilliantly characterizes the actions of entire organizations as the whims of a few men in power.  Even in a fictionalized world imbued with caricature to prove a point, it’s still frightening to see back-scratching and petty power struggles between city officials [...]

This is just downright absurd.

Those words are getting heavy airtime in the YouTube pop culture vacuum this week, just as “They are who we thought they were!” introduced much of the non-sporting world to Denny Green.
By now, you’ve undoubtedly seen the raw and uncut version of Bill O’Reilly’s flip-out 20 years ago while taping a wrap-up for Inside Edition. [...]

How badly do you want him to want you? Her to want you? Check out “I Want You to Want Me” to see if there’s an answer to your plight…