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December 9, 2008

Teh Awesoments

Stolen from eatliver.com

This Was Not the [Insert Name] He Knew [Dan Collins]

Gawker’s take on Obama’s statement regarding Blagojevich’s arrest: Hey, Obama press availability time: president-elect Barry Obama is “saddened” by the actions of evil criminal governor Rod Blagojevich, but it’s an “ongoing investigation,” so he won’t comment on it. Where have we heard that line before? Oh, right—from the Bush administration, for eight years. Now Barry will just talk about how he met Al Gore, who speaks for the trees. He

Senator Craig Has Lost His Appeal [Dan Collins]

I guess he won’t be picking anyone up in the changing rooms at REI, anymore.

Blago’s Indictment [Dan Collins; UPDATE x2]

Note: all pagination is represented as PDF page.  To change to document page, subtract two. Pages 6-7 (pdf): Defendants ROD BLAGOJEVICH and JOHN HARRIS, together with others, attempted to use ROD BLAGOJEVICH’s authority to appoint a United States Senator for the purpose of obtaining personal benefits for ROD BLAGOJEVICH, including, among other things, appointment as Secretary of Health & Human Services in the President-elect’s administration, and alternatively, a lucrative job

British Women More Promiscuous Than British Men [Dan Collins]

Young women are also twice as likely to be unfaithful, with 50 per cent admitting they have cheated on a partner  -  half at least twice. Yet if their man was caught being unfaithful, 99 per cent of the 2,000 women surveyed said they would show him the door. The sex survey, for More magazine, also found women crave more sex but still believe men enjoy it more than they

Tim Egan Can’t Stop Fuming Over JTP’s Literary Ambitions [Dan Collins]

With a résumé full of failing failure, you now think you have the “chops” to join the profession of Mark Twain, George Orwell, William Shakespeare, and award-winning New York Times Guest Columnist Timothy Egan? Think again, toilet-man. You’re forgetting the one thing that Twain, Orwell, the Bard and I share that you’ll never ever have: a degree in journalism.

Matt Drudge’s Bitch [Dan Collins]

Plucking righty writers for new site, Big Hollywood.

Contributory Negligence [Dan Collins]

Go sell off your Western Civ books, while there’s still a niche market: People affected by worsening storms, heatwaves and floods could soon be able to sue the oil and power companies they blame for global warming, a leading climate expert has said. Myles Allen, a physicist at Oxford University, said a breakthrough that allows scientists to judge the role man-made climate change played in extreme weather events could see

How Now, Mau Mau? [Dan Collins; update Blagojevich Arrested]

Central Command, we seem to have a problem. The union has decided that Bank of America is to blame for the fact that Republic Windows And Doors is going out of business. Accordingly, they’re demanding that BoA lend enough money to Republic to pay out the 60 days’ severance and vacation pay to the unionized labor. When I first heard this story a few days ago, I thought what you’re

Gorilla TMI [Dan Collins]

Monifa, a gorilla at the San Francisco Zoo, isn’t properly caring for her newborn.  Then the article goes overboard.