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more about #tragedies more comments → God: Typical coastal elitists. I gotta tell you, Real Americans in the trailer parks of Idaho and the suburbs of South Carolina truly feel the pain of 9/11... more » Grim Reaper of the Forest: I'm glad I don't have TV. That was a bad 13 months living in DC. 9/11, local postal workers dying of anthrax, co-workers on Cipro. Oh, and then the ... more » SerleBird: One thing I've learned about grieving is that you cannot tell anyone how they should or should not go about it. I think it's unfair to surmise that ai... more » Rhymenocerous: I find the requisite facebook status updates more offensive. Actual update: "8:46 AM -8 years exactly- :(" What, exactly, is the point? To let the re... more » NowAvailableinExtraStrength: Is there at last one thing left here that we don't make fun of? Wow! I guess everyone that mocked me for not having a sense of humor didn't lose a g... more » If_I_Had_a_Poodle: honor them with peace more » Spirit Fingers: My "Wow, that's tasteless" remembrance from 9/11: Worked in lower midtown, company had a large window that captured it all, formerly "just strange" c... more » TheBusinessGuy: What exactly is the problem with watching history as it happened and feeling the sadness? No, no--much better to distance ourselves from tragedy and ... more » crunkjuice: I watch it every year. It's important to remember exactly what you felt on that day in 2001 - the confusion, the horror, the uncertainty. The best t... more » NowAvailableinExtraStrength: Let's all wish horrible things on Richard Petty whose tasteless comment makes me personally wanna find him, put a loaded gun in his mouth and pull the... more » Thomas Paladino: Yeah, lets all forget. Sorry, don't watch it if you don't want to, but they're doing the country a great service by running this footage exactly as it... more » okneil: As a non-american these images are burned into my head, I will never forget them nor do I have any want to see them again. The WORLD knows what happen... more » misslinda: You don't have to watch it if you don't want to see it. more » Maxichamp: I actually watched it this morning. I was on the West Coast on 9/11 so I missed the original coverage. I've been avoiding watching it all these year... more » quatrevingtquatre: Is this going to happen for forever? Granted, I'm not a New Yorker and I wasn't when it happened, but I remember watching every moment of the footage ... more » -
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MSNBC's Continues Tradition of Airing PTSD-Inducing 9/11 Footage
There are many ways to memorialize the eighth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks. This morning, MSNBC chose the worst: re-airing the tape of their coverage from that terrible morning. More » -
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A Korean satellite, valued at $11m, appears to have fallen to earth after its launch.
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#truetales
We Wanted To Be a Millionaire
This story about the idiot who guessed wrong on the final question on last Sunday's Millionaire annoyed us. Because: a) "24-year-old LA lawyer," b) we knew the goddamn answer and c) we were too dumb to make it on Millionaire.
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Williamsburg: The New Epicenter of the Housing Crisis
Oh pity the poor denizens of Williamsburg. The erosion of hipster trust funds is leading their greasy little utopia to slowly devolve into some sort of Mad Max-esque, post-apocalyptic real estate wasteland, just like Miami! So says New York Magazine. More » -
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DC Metro Crash Death Toll Rises
Three more bodies were pulled from the wreckage of the yesterday's Metro train collision overnight, raising the confirmed number of deaths to nine. [WTOP] -
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Financial Crisis Forcing Hipsters To Be Weaned Off the Parental Teat
The global economic downturn is forcing parents of Williamsburg hipsters to drastically scale back their monthly allowances, forcing many of them to turn to drastic measures to pay for their PBR and Edensoy, drastic measures like actually getting jobs.
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Beatrice Inn Shut Down, Skinny Cokeheads Left to Wander Streets
Low-ceiling'd smokehut the Beatrice Inn, a hip downtown bar frequented by society types and New York celebrities alike, has been padlocked. Some say it's because of all the druggery and smoking, others because of overcrowding.
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Chimp Lady Predictably Sad, Crazy
Sandra Herold, owner of Travis the chimp (Travis ripped a woman's face off after writing the stimulus bill), went on The Today Show because it seemed like a great idea in her current mental state. More » -
