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Poem from the Pops

A log sat on the splitterHe knew his fate was fixedMoments laterToothpicks
-PB
Happy Birthday!

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Toby Swordis

Noise or Sound?

I had a flashback to my more youthful thinking the other day when I read the commentary of an article about cricket. In it the author stated that the goal of modern popular culture is to remove boring from our lives. So true.
Popular culture also is carefully constructed to make us feel inferior unless we have large amounts of money to spend - it does so with noise and clutter. Media and all of culture with its upbeat sensationalism is actually designed to keep us down. How can we...

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Off The Record

New York Times Magazine Hires Thought Catalog Writer

More than a year after Hugo Lindgren took over as editor in chief, The New York Times Magazine is still evolving. Last month it debuted a new column: “They’re Famous! (On the Internet),” by Gaby Dunn, a 23-year-old stand up comedian who has written for Thought Catalog and GOOD.
Unlike the short-lived “Last Month on the Internet” column, a sort of collage of found Internet gems, “They’re Famous!” takes Internet personae for its subject matter but otherwise sticks to the conventions of...

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Opening Shot

A Season of Too Many Stars

Assange. Swinton. Assange. No, Swinton. Assange?

Last week, Michael Bloomberg attended a press conference for the 100th episode of Gossip Girl. “I just don’t see how Blair could marry Prince Louis when she’s clearly in love with Chuck,” said the New York mayor, who apparently had nothing bigger on his plate to worry at that moment, such as the allegations of rape made against Greg Kelly, the son of his police Commissioner Ray Kelly, or the NYPD head’...

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Please welcome Penny Franklin to MSB

Penny’s first thought

We are now, as human beings,
so distant from qualities of substance,
so far from things that really matter.
What happened to common sense?
And value? And ethics?
With all our advancements
we have lost sight.
Foresight, insight, hindsight.
We are blinded by trinkets.
All this chaos that we created
makes me wonder,
what if we could just go back to
raw, hard, simple living?
To a time when the cost of an item
was the amount it was worth.
When your return was at least
the same as what you put in...

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Man Dies Gaming at Internet Cafe goes Unnoticed for Nine Hours

dvorak.org - By McCullough – New Taipei, Taiwan - A Taiwanese man who died while playing video games at an internet cafe appeared to have gone unnoticed by fellow gamers for up to nine hours, police said Friday.

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Retrial ordered after judge falls asleep

thelocal.se - An appeals court case in Gothenburg is set to go to retrial after the presiding judge took a nap during proceedings, according to both the defence and prosecution counsel. - "It is very important aspect of the legal process that the person trying the district court decision is present," said the prosecuting counsel Margareta Esplund to broadcaster TV4.

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Roseanne Barr Will Seek Green Party Presidential Nomination

independentpoliticalreport.com - From Ballot Access News: Roseanne Barr has taken several steps to make it possible for her to seek the Green Party presidential nomination. She filed with the Federal Election Commission on January 25, and she has fulfilled the requirements of the Green Party to seek the nomination. She is a registered Green Party member in California, although she also has a home in Hawaii.

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Candidate confirms she will appeal decision removing her from ballot

yumasun.com - BY CESAR NEYOY - BAJO EL SOL - SAN LUIS, Ariz.— While conceding she needs to improve her command of English, a San Luis resident confirmed Saturday she will appeal a court ruling that she lacks the usage skills required to serve on the city council. Alejandrina Cabrera said her attorneys are seeking an appeal before the Arizona Supreme Court of Yuma County Superior Court Judge John Nelson's order removing her from the ballot of the March primary election.

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Doctor Bizarre

Michelle Obama does push-ups. Morons criticize her form.

Michelle Obama recently paid a visit to the Ellen show. While Ellen and she were making small talk, a push-up contest materialized. The two women hit the floor and started knocking them out. Good for daytime television, but bad for news…unless you’re talking about the morons who comment on said “news” pieces with personal attacks.
I don’t have much love for President Obama. In fact, I don’t have much love for ANY politician. But I have even...

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Doug Ernst

Jonah Hill: It would be Money(ball) if he was Conservative.

How sad would it be if Jonah Hill recognized that his Moneyball character, Peter Brand, wasn't evil just because he was brought in to turn around a struggling organization, but then contributed to a political party that demonizes venture capital firms? Very.

If you even remotely follow Hollywood, then you’ll know Jonah Hill has been nominated for an Oscar for his role in Moneyball. You’ve probably noticed that he’s lost a lot of weight...

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Andrew Breitbart

A Call For Unity at CPAC 2012; We All Must Find Common Ground

The year 2011 was one of turmoil for the conservative movement, as we celebrated the success of 2010 but faced a divisive counter-revolution by the Democrats and the media.
The Republican establishment, together with social conservatives, libertarians and the Tea Party, waged war against the Obama administration, the public sector unions, the mainstream media, the Occupy Wall Street Movement and the Progressive movement, writ large. And simultaneously, in these terrible...

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Greg David

The politics and law of odious redistricting

There is a farce taking place in New York these days as a legislative task force named LATFOR goes around the state holding public hearings on the plan it has drawn up for new legislative and congressional districts to reflect the 2010 Census.
Look for an opinion piece from Common Cause’s Susan Lerner in Monday’s print edition that explains how absurd the legislative plan is. I’m going to tackle the political and legal issues.

Let’s start with the politics. The...

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