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Members of the delightfully quirky Westboro Baptist Church showed up at Arlington Cemetery on Memorial Day just to remind everyone, through the use of excessive signage, that God loves dead soldiers. But luckily for people who were hoped to visit the cemetery without encountering hateful bigotry, brave members of the Ku Klux Klan showed up to counter-protest. More »
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After last year's deeply embarrassing Shirley Sherrod episode, you'd think people would have learned their lesson about conservative publisher Andrew Breitbart. But no! The University of Missouri has asked a professor to resign thanks to another stupid Breitbart video. Ugh. More »
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Another awards show, another awkward red carpet interview by Giuliana Rancic! She's never been known for her red carpet skills (Ahem...), but Rancic's SAG Awards interview with Glee's Chris Colfer tonight took things to an uncomfortable new level. Update: Racism! More »
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"Christmass" is currently a trending topic on Twitter. This means hundreds of thousands of people are tweeting about "Christmass." Maybe they're all talking about the 2006 Frank Black album? More »
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This weekend, we all eradicated child abuse by changing our Facebook profile pictures to cartoon characters. Or did we? According to the stupidest rumor I have ever heard, pedophiles are behind the useless campaign, for some idiotic made-up reason. More »
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New Maryland Republican Representative Andy Harris won his seat on a platform of resisting the expansion of "government-run or government-mandated insurance." He also spent Monday demanding to know why he had to wait 28 days for his own government-run insurance. More »
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Are you familiar with the patriotic new trend of carrying your favorite gun to your local bar? Four states now have laws that explicitly allow people to carry loaded firearms in establishments that serve alcohol. Can you guess which ones? More »
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Hey media! Are we done with that whole cancelled-9/11-Koran-burning story? Someone might want to tell Afghanistan, because two people died on Sunday in the Lowgar province during a protest against the discontinued event. [Pic of 9/10 protest via AP] More »
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Los Angeles has named a new high school of environment science after former vice president Al Gore and author/activist Rachel Carson. And what better way to honor the two great environmentalists than by building the school on a contaminated site? More »
]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5631409&view=rss&microfeed=true After a court-ordered absence, Jessi Slaughter has returned to the Internet in a big way More »
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This is a video made by The Onion in 2007, showing a congressman—played by an actor—read out a largely classified bill about a zombie invasion. Recently, it's been making the rounds on Facebook—but not as a satire. More »
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Though talk radio's favorite belligerent sea lion had big gay Elton John at his recent wedding, making him look all acceptance-y, he and his wife were married by vocally anti-gay preacher Ken Hutcherson, who has compared gays to murderers. [PBP] More »
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Mediaite reports that Dale Robertson, a self-proclaimed Tea Party leader and a racist who famously mis-spelled the N word on a placard, claims to have joined the Washington Times as part of its 'Tea Party Report' blog. More »
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Some of the recent financial crisis was blamed on the reckless culture of gambling on Wall Street. The LA Times reports today that they are now literally hiring people with few qualifications beyond a love of poker. More »
]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5540041&view=rss&microfeed=true An agitated man on Long Island told his boss he'd 'pull a Faisal' if he was fired. We, and the New York Post, presume he was referring to the would-be Times Square bomber. And a phrase is born. [NYP] More »
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Since the failed Times Square carbomb, and the arrest of Pakistani suspect Faisal Shahzad, a Pakistani man was ludicrously prevented from buying garden fertilizer. Others, according to Reuters, are now posing as Indians to try and avoid increased stigma. More »
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Equatorial Guinea's dictator Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, allegedly a cannibal and definitely a tyrant, has given the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) $3m to award a $300,000 grant to scientists in his name. More »
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On Friday Palin lied — she took a quote from an Obama speech out of context and used it to imply that the President doesn't like America as much as real Americans. Now the AP have lent her their credence. More »
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Jerry Schweighart, the Mayor of Champaign, a city of 75,000 people, was asked what he thinks of Barack Obama. The President of the United States of America. "I don't think he's American, personally," he responded. More »
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Temple, Texas, now allows — nay encourages — teachers in its 14 schools to paddle any unruly kids. Apparently in Texas, as in 19 other states, corporal punishment is not illegal. Those states are (almost) all southern. More »
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Hey, there's a Tea Party going on in Washington DC right now. Old white people are responsibly protesting socialism and also the fact that our president is Kenyan. Pic via Dave Weigel. (One more from Ana Marie Cox!) More »
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Since leaving office last July, Sarah Palin has made at least $12 million. (According to ABC's The Blotter, so the real figure is probably more like a zillion dollars, if this Palin character even exists.) So there you have it. More »
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In a speech last night Sarah Palin, the former vice-presidential candidate and current figurehead for idiocy, ramped up her attacks on Obama and showcased her new catchphrase: "Don't retreat! RELOAD!" Which, she insists, is not a call for violence. More »
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The church, the same one that pickets the funerals of killed soldiers, arguing that their deaths are a way of punishing America for tolerating homosexuality, have decided the miners who died in an explosion this week were sinners. More »
]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5513598&view=rss&microfeed=true Tea Partiers are planning a Tea Party outside the home of Senate Parliamentarian Alan Frumin. And there are "people threatening him," according to Kent Conrad. Frumin, of course, was appointed Parliamentarian after the Republicans fired the old one for ruling against them in a reconciliation matter. More »
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Republicans scored a major victory this morning when they found two minor drafting errors in health care reconciliation sidecar, making passage of the legislation legislation take one day longer than it would've otherwise. More »
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For the second day in a row, Senate Republicans decided to quit working at 2 p.m., because they are really cranky. And also Senate rules allow people to shut it down unilaterally, at 2 p.m.. More »
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More than half of self-identified Republicans don't blame banks for the financial crisis. Pollsters didn't ask who they do blame, but I'm guessing it's "blacks, poors, Nobama, Barney Fag and ACORN." More »
]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5499431&view=rss&microfeed=true The Iraq War is seven years old. No one responsible for it is in jail. More »
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First, Desiree Rogers refused to acquiesce to Sally Quinn's demand that she be an old person from Georgetown. Then she let some losers into a party. Now we learn that she forgot to send Christmas cards to rich people! More »
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Important national security news: anthropomorphic representation of post-collapse America's spiritual bankruptcy Spencer Pratt is going to start a "cybersecurity venture," FoxNews.com can confirm. More »
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American Commander-in-Chief Lindsey Graham has been keeping himself incredibly busy lately, tackling all the tough issues that the American people sent him to Washington to fix. Let's look at some of his efforts. More »
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Eric Massa is going to resign after all. And then tomorrow he is going to be on Glenn Beck. Here is his comical radio talk about Rahm Emanuel attacking Massa in the shower, without his towel on. More »
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"ACORN does indeed operate like the Mafia, but it more closely resembles another organization that began as an affiliate of the Democratic Party, the Ku Klux Klan." -Famous GOP expert on black history Michael Zak. It's totally true! More »
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Kings County DA Charles Hynes says "no criminality has been found" after his investigation into ACORN. Earlier reports from the former Massachusetts DA ACORN hired to investigate themselves and the Congressional Research Office also found no evidence of law-breaking. More »
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Police Commissioner Ray Kelly is the most popular man in town, according to a recent poll. Kelly's approval rating is an impressive 70%—which is hilarious, because there's more news of the NYPD's corruption every day. More »
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Every year, the US House of Representatives put together a list of bills they passed that the Senate has not yet voted on. This year's tally: 290! More »
]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5478424&view=rss&microfeed=true Malcom Gladwell managed to take the fun out of getting blackout drunk. Really, man? Really? More »
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