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100 Best Rock Songs of the 00'sIt's the end of the decade, which means lists aplenty, and why wouldn't I join the incessant babble? I may not be a critic, or anybody remotely important, but I know what I like. I should point out right at the start that I obviously have not heard and evaluated every single song that has been released this decade. I'm a huge fan of music in general, and I'll listen

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What Would Happen if Marijuana Were Decriminalized? A Freakonomics QuorumI believe that we are rapidly approaching a tipping point in Western society where marijuana will finally be allowed to come out of the closet. So many people from all walks of life smoke it on a regular basis despite the laws, and it permeates pop culture - hell, there's a show called 'Weeds'!Full disclosure: I've never

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It's not how you play the game, it's whether you win or loseIn my limited experience, I know of no country more obsessed with sports than the United States. From high school to college to professional sports, more time, money, and attention is paid to sports in America than anything else. In Canada, my nation is all about hockey, with a little curling, figure skating, and football thrown in.

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What Matt Taibbi said on the Rachel Maddow show last night was absolutely right - if a corporation is too big to fail, then it's too big. Banks should have stayed as banks, instead of allowing them to branch out into insurance and investments and god knows what else. The banks in my country, Canada, are no exception, but the reason they're not in trouble is that they are far more conservative

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Fox News mocks Canadian militaryAs Canadians mourn the loss of four more fallen soldiers in Afghanistan, a videotaped segment of an American TV talk show where panelists mock Canadian soldiers as slackers is making the rounds on the Internet. The five-minute segment, which aired recently on Fox News late-night program Red Eye with Greg Gutfeld and later posted on YouTube.com, features American

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The Problem With 'Heroes'Well, there's no one single problem with the show, obviously; I'm just adding to the chorus of complaints, but I think there is something specific that could easily be changed which would turn things around.Nathan Petrelli has the ability to fly. And he is one morose motherfucker. Now, honestly, would those two facts really go together? If you could fly, wouldn't you

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Every year there are the same complaints about the Oscars and how out of touch they are with, well, reality. I haven't seen any of the five Best Picture nominees, and to be honest, I don't really want to see them. I do want to see The Wrestler, because I'm a Mickey Rourke fan. But it's hard to say with any authority that one work of art is better than another, although obviously Pineapple

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Lose, Leafs, LoseThis is what the Leafs need to do - suck mightily in the hopes that Tampa Bay, Ottawa, and Atlanta find their collective sacks and pass them in the standings. (I'm assuming the Islanders are a lost cause) I mean, sure, it would be hilarious if Toronto somehow managed to finish higher than the Senators - I can't think of a bigger insult - but realistically, they need a chance at

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There was probably a time, long ago, when politicians told the truth, kept the promises they made, and acted with integrity. Then, one day, a politician lied, broke a promise, took a bribe. Politics is a difficult, demanding career, but once lies and corruption were discovered, suddenly it wasn't so difficult, so demanding. And the rewards were far greater than what came before. So with very

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If the banks want rescuing by the federal government, then they should have to agree to a couple of conditions:1) Make it harder for people to get credit. I'm not talking about people with regular jobs and a steady income. I'm talking about giving credit cards to high school students who aren't even working. I'm talking about giving a $300,000 mortgage to someone who makes $28,000 a year. I'm

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It sure is a great time to be a Toronto-area sports fan. The Leafs suck, the Raptors suck, and the Jays are very likely to suck. The rest of the country could care less, of course, because for most Canadians, Toronto is apparently the enemy, or at least a symbol of all the things that are wrong with the world. Toronto commands so much media attention in Canada that it's hardly surprising that

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Black high school students in Louisiana threatened with lynching Campaign for America's FutureIn September 2006, a group of African American high school students in Jena, Louisiana, asked the school for permission to sit beneath a "whites only" shade tree. There was an unwritten rule that blacks couldn't sit beneath the tree. The school said they didn't care where students sat. The next day,

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Crooks and Liars » Bong Hits For JesusI wish I could say that this Supreme Court ruling surprises me, but of course it doesn't. The best part is that the student unfurled his banner across the street from the high school. He wasn't even on school grounds, so how does a principal have the authority to do anything to the student? As for 'advocating drug use', the banner clearly states "Bong Hits

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WP: Scientists cast doubt on Kennedy bullet analysisThey found that the scientific and statistical assumptions Guinn used -- and thegovernment accepted at the time -- to conclude that the fragments came from just two bullets fired from Oswald's gun were wrong. "This finding means that the bullet fragments from the assassination that match could have come from three or more separate bullets," the

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Phoenix Coach Rips Ruling The NBA suspended Stoudemire and Diaw for Wednesday night's Game 5 of what's become an intense, rough Western Conference semifinal series against the San Antonio Spurs. The two violated an NBA rule by leaving the bench area after Robert Horry's flagrant foul on Steve Nash in the final seconds of Phoenix's 104-98 victory in Game 4, a win that tied the series at 2-2.

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My Way News - Warner Bros. Cancels Canada PreviewsCanadian film lovers hoping to catch an early peek at "Ocean's Thirteen" and the upcoming Harry Potter sequel will be out of luck after Warner Bros. canceled all of its advance screenings and accused Canada of being at the forefront of the piracy market.Darcy Antonellis, Warner Bros.' senior vice president of worldwide anti-piracy operations,

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Gov. Hasn't Reviewed Hilton Fan PetitionHilton - star of E! network's reality show "The Simple Life" - has called the sentence unfair, and her fans have posted a petition on the Internet urging Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to pardon her.Paris Hilton has fans. I know, this was probably obvious to you, but give me a second. Paris Hilton has fans. Fans of what, exactly? What has she accomplished

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I've reached the point where I've realized that it doesn't matter who is running America - Democrat or Republican, it will still be business as usual, with the rich getting richer while everyone else gets the bill. Howard Zinn's book, 'The People's History of the United States', was a real eye-opener for me, as I never knew how thoroughly the upper class has been managing and controlling the

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Update 2: GOP Senators Introduce Eavesdropping Bill - Forbes.comThe bill would give the government up to 45 days to monitor calls and e-mails of suspected terrorists when one party is in the U.S. and the other is overseas. Like Bush's existing program, the government would not have to get court approval. After 45 days, federal officials would have to stop the eavesdropping, get a court warrant or

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ESA Says, Vote for Video Games - ShacknewsAs you have probably noticed, the legal and political climate surrounding video games and the video game industry is becoming absolutely stifling. The number of laws being proposed or passed on a daily basis relating in some way to the restriction or regulation of games continues to grow. Of course, most of them are struck down by the courts, but the fact

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So Crash wins for Best Picture, and that's fine, but let's be real - this was a weak year for movies. Check out this list of films from 1994:The Shawshank RedemptionPulp FictionForrest GumpEd WoodHeavenly CreaturesHoop DreamsThe Lion KingQuiz ShowThe Madness of King GeorgeSpeedThe MaskClerksThe Crow1994 might just have been the best year for movies in the last half-century. I saw Crash, and it

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CBS News | Poll: Bush Ratings At All-Time Low | February 28, 200634 percent. Oh, and 58 percent of Republicans think the Dubai port deal is a mistake.I watched 'Good Night, and Good Luck' last night, the movie about the conflict between Edward R. Murrow and Senator McCarthy. It was a reminder of a time when people actually trusted journalists, instead of thinking they're just as full of shit as

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U.S. Government Shuts Cuba Out of World Baseball Classic The U.S. government is keeping Cuba out of the inaugural World Baseball Classic, citing the standing embargo against the communist island nation. ... In the tournament schedule announced last week, Cuba was to play its three first-round games in San Juan, Puerto Rico, facing Panama on March 8, the Netherlands on March 9 and Puerto Rico

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Good old Drudge Report... The DRUDGE REPORT has learned from a top GOP operative that the Republican National Committee will provide state parties with a web video prior to release tomorrow afternoon that shows a white flag waving over images of Democrat leaders making anti-war remarks. The ad is in response to the controversial comments Democratic Party Chairman Howard Dean and 2004 Democratic

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Open And Shut - 10 Unanswered 9/11 Questions Of all the questions, the one that interests me the most is: How did the twin towers fall? As the writer says: The lessons learned from the WTC collapse will inform decisions about the safety of other modern office towers. We're still waiting for a more definitive computer simulation that explains the complete collapse of both towers. Demolition

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Bush Declares: 'We Do Not Torture' President Bush vigorously defended U.S. interrogation practices in the war on terror Monday and lobbied against a congressional drive to outlaw torture. "There's an enemy that lurks and plots and plans and wants to hurt America again," Bush said. "So you bet we will aggressively pursue them but we will do so under the law." He declared, "We do not torture."

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Rootkits: the latest in DRM from Sony It's more than enough work trying to keep up with all the viruses, adware, and malware floating around the internet. I've spent many, many hours cleaning systems of that crap, and I'm sure I will spend many more in the years to come. It doesn't help when Sony contributes to the problem. Some newer CDs from Sony BMG contain an antipiracy application that

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Smart Paladin55% Combativeness, 33% Sneakiness, 64% Intellect, 55% Spirituality Valorous! Noble! Or possibly just a self-righteous jerk (but with the brains to keep you alive!)... You are a Smart Paladin!Paladins are holy warriors. They are valorous defenders of the light.Unfortunately, most of them are so ardent in their defense they tend tomeet sticky ends faster than you can say "

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Recruits Sought For Porn Squad This is beyond stupid. Early last month, the bureau's Washington Field Office began recruiting for a new anti-obscenity squad. Attached to the job posting was a July 29 Electronic Communication from FBI headquarters to all 56 field offices, describing the initiative as "one of the top priorities" of Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales and, by extension, of "the

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Bush Denies Racial Component to Response "The storm didn't discriminate and neither will the recovery effort," Bush said. "The rescue efforts were comprehensive. The recovery will be comprehensive." Let's not forget that the Bush Administration has worked as hard as any to disenfranchise minorities whenever possible, so to imagine that they might not give two shits about some poor black people.

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t r u t h o u t - William Rivers Pitt | Cindy's Victory If there's one thing historians love to do, it's playing the game of pointing to a moment and saying, 'That's the turning point, that's when things started to change.' I'm no historian, but what the hell - I'll play too. Cindy Sheehan is the turning point. In the end, what America needed was a simple symbolic moment: a mother standing

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MLB needs approved supplements list -- The Hardball Times The Palmeiro incident actually raises an interesting issue, which is that Major League Baseball should be more proactive by creating a list of approved medications, substances, and supplements. It is very possible that Palmeiro took something without realizing that it contained steroids - US companies are not required to list all

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Movies That Kick AssToday's pick: RoninThis is the first in a series about movies that might not have gotten a lot of media attention when they came out, or did much business at the box office, but kick serious ass nonetheless. Be warned, there are mild spoilers, but I'll try to keep as much under my hat as I can.Ronin stars Robert DeNiro, Jean Reno, Stellan Skarsgard, Natascha McElhone, Sean

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Wal-Mart Nixes 'Singles Shopping' Officials at Wal-Mart headquarters in Bentonville, Ark., ordered their Roanoke store to put an end to Singles Shopping, the only program of its kind at Wal-Mart's U.S. stores. Taking a cue from Wal-Marts in Germany, the month-old program encouraged customers on Friday evenings to pick up a red bow they could place on their shopping carts as an invitation to

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Pope Opposes Harry Potter Novels - Signed Letters from Cardinal Ratzinger Now Online Like the Potter series needed a further sales boost... Let's face it, if the Pope doesn't want young people to read Harry Potter, that's just going to make more of them want to. And what are the odds he's actually read any of the books? I'm going to guess... million to one? It is good, that you enlighten

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Very soon now, the hockey players are going to wake up one morning to find that they got royally screwed. This will come as no surprise to anybody, but it's telling that a smart guy like Jeremy Roenick can do little to hide his frustration at how this whole thing has been spun by the owners. Whenever a sports league has labor troubles, it's important to remember that it's one group of rich guys

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t r u t h o u t - The Free Press | Did Bush Steal 2004 Election? Yes, I think he did, just like he stole the 2000 election. The controversy surrounding the voting machines remains extremely fierce in part because major manufacturers such as Diebold, ES&S, Triad, and others are controlled by partisan Republican companies with secret proprietary software. This unfortunate lack of transparency

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House Votes to Limit Use of Patriot Act This part is what I find unbelievable: "If there are terrorists in libraries studying how to fly planes, how to put together biological weapons, how to put together chemical weapons, nuclear weapons, ... we have to have an avenue through the federal court system so that we can stop the attack before it occurs," said Rep. Tom Feeney, R-Fla. Why am I not

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Current Weather Conditions for Kitchener, Ontario The past week has been one of the hottest and muggiest on record here in Southern Ontario, especially for a week in June. The humidex reading at midday has been around 100 degrees for eight days straight, and after playing a golf tournament on Saturday, I can tell you that a hundred degrees kicks your ass pretty handily. If it wasn't for air

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Pope Benedict XVI Condemns Same-Sex Unions - Yahoo! News Pope Benedict XVI condemned same-sex unions as anarchic "pseudo-matrimony" Monday and reaffirmed the Roman Catholic Church's opposition to abortion. Up until the last century or so, most Christian marriages were arranged and represented little more than property transactions. I understand the Catholic Church's need to keep imposing its

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Kevin Spacey to Appear in Reality Show Now the actor-director will take on the role of mentor to showbiz interns in "Going Hollywood," a new eight-part TLC reality series... Spacey will be joined by producer Robert Evans and rapper-actor Method Man. Spacey is an odd bird to begin with - is he gay, is he straight, is he Canadian, what's the deal? But then you pair him up with Method Man...

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Saw the Star Wars movie, and I have only one real nitpick (the movie itself is worth the price of admission). What is Lucas' obsession with open heights? Nearly every scene has a precipitous drop close at hand, and there are no frickin' railings! There's one scene where Obi-Wan boards his little space cruiser thing at Padme's pad, and it reminded me of a boat tied up at a dock. Except that if

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CSI: Nick StokesLast night's CSI was terrific, and not just because Quentin Tarantino was the director. In fact, there was really only a few scenes that had the Tarantino flavour. No, what made the episode special was George Eads, who plays Nick Stokes. His character spent nearly the whole two-hour episode buried in a plexiglass coffin, and the work Eads did to sell this situation was phenomenal.

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Calgary Sun Columnist - Rick Bell: Franken-Stronach Warning: This blog entry is about Canadian politics, something about which few people give a damn about, especially Canadians. Belinda Stronach, the pretty young rich girl of Parliament, switched from the Conservative Party to the Liberal Party this week, and while to an American, such an idea (a conservative becoming liberal - WTF???) is

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In Defense of CelebritiesSweet Christ, I may live to regret this.It is assumed by most people that celebrities, whether they be actors or pop stars or rich guys with bad hair, are all kind of dumb. Or at least, naive and/or so full of themselves that they couldn't possibly have anything of substance to say. The media encourages this belief because it helps to sell papers or boost TV ratings -

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One current trend that I find irritating is this marketing concept that middle-aged fat guys can get hot chicks. The best example of this is the television show 'King of Queens', in which middle-aged fat guy Kevin James is married to the yummy Leah Remini. In real life, this doesn't happen unless the guy is either rich or hung like Liam Neeson. James plays a UPS driver, so his character ain't

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t r u t h o u t - Robert S. McNamara | Apocalypse Soon It is time - well past time, in my view - for the United States to cease its Cold War-style reliance on nuclear weapons as a foreign-policy tool. At the risk of appearing simplistic and provocative, I would characterize current US nuclear weapons policy as immoral, illegal, militarily unnecessary, and dreadfully dangerous. The risk of an

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Timberlake to Play Role in 'Shrek 3' Why is this asshole famous? Why do people who should know better encourage this 'wigger'? Christ, I even saw this prick in a Snoop Dogg video. Snoop, Timberlake is the kind of kiss-ass, dumbed-down, black-heritage-raping white boy you should be ass-whupping! Why would you enable this reverse-Michael Jackson routine? As Chris Rock says, "It's all right..

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Exploding Toads Puzzle German Scientists More than 1,000 toads have puffed up and exploded in a Hamburg pond in recent weeks, and scientists still have no explanation for what's causing the combustion, an official said Wednesday. Both the pond's water and body parts of the toads have been tested, but scientists have been unable to find a bacteria or virus that would cause the toads to swell up

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t r u t h o u t - Howard Dean: GOP 'Evil,' 'Corrupt' and 'Brain-Dead' "It's odd that Howard Dean says he wants to earn the respect of those who live in the red states, but chooses to not only attack their views but attack them personally," RNC spokeswoman Tracey Schmitt said. "Americans want to hear an agenda, rather than name calling." Uh, honey, considering that your own party has been busy

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Blogger sucks. Half the time I post something and it never publishes right. I have to come back to Blogger.com, fuck around with it for a while, and then hope it gets through. I will be researching alternatives...

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Just came back from a three-day trip to Connecticut... Upstate New York has some of the most boring scenery I have ever seen. The Interstate is so straight, it lulls you to sleep. Wherever there is a curve in the road, you can see where people have driven right off into the ditch. And of course, in the middle of all this boredom, they put the Women's Rights National Park. You have the right

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Report: Affleck and Garner EngagedI like Affleck, at least the person named Affleck who shows up for Kevin Smith movies and poker tournaments. I'm not so much about the Affleck who thinks he's an action star. Still, while I'm happy for the guy that he's on his way to tying the knot with yet another Maxim calendar girl... Click on that link above and look at the picture myway.com provided. Does he

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Now on DVD: The Sanitizer's Cut (washingtonpost.com) The dispute is, in some ways, less about money than a clash over social values and control of a creative product. "A lot of people are just really tired of what's out there," says Sandra Teraci, who runs Family Flix with her husband, Richard. "They're tired of turning on the TV or renting a movie and constantly being hit by violence, profanity

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Your Risk, Their Gain Would you be upset if someone spent millions of dollars to put your future retirement funds into a casino, while taking no risks with their own future? Say hello to the Wall Street CEOs whose companies are aggressively lobbying for Social Security privatization. Because of their bloated compensation packages, these CEOs pay Social Security taxes only a few days a year. The

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South Korean Driver Passes Driving Test on 272nd Attempt "Driving seems a bit hard. But after trying 271 times to pass the oral exam, what do I have to be afraid of?" Seo said. How about... child star midgets who can't see the road? (See below.)

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'Webster' Actor Gets Warning for Speeding Kirk said Lewis, who lives in the Atlanta area, was probably unfamiliar with the road and didn't realize there were speed-limit changes. Yeah, that's it. Or maybe it was because he's a little dwarf who can't see over the steering wheel? What the hell is Webster driving that he can see anything at all? It's bad enough they allow little old ladies (who

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I've got a cold. We've got pills that can give you a day-long stiffy, but for the common cold - nothing. One of my favorite things about a cold is when you blow your nose and it feels like one of your eyes is trying to pop out. It's springtime, I should be running around enjoying the newfound warmth of the day, rejoicing in the disappearance of the snow. Instead I sit here, my head stuffed

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Gary Sheffield Tussles With Fan It's amazing to me that we really haven't had a major fan/athlete incident yet. Yeah, I know about the Pacers incident, but I'm talking about somebody dying here. I'm talking about the lunatic fan that decides to bring a gun to the game and takes a few shots at the target of his obsession. You know, like that crappy film DeNiro and Snipes made a decade ago, '

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I finally saw Super Size Me last night. Talk about a movie to scare the shit outta you. Now, I'm a fat guy as it is. 5'10", probably at least 250 lb, with a gut, a fat ass, and big chunky legs. I might eat at a fast food joint twice a month, if that; it's just too expensive to eat out these days, even to a McDicks or a Wendy's. I'm fat mostly becausea) I don't exerciseb) I eat foods that

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Whoa, that was a bit of a gap, wasn't it? Two years, give or take? That's the problem with laziness - it sets into your bones like a winter chill, and it takes a couple minutes short of forever to pull out of it. It's not so much that I ran out of things to say... It was really more like I wanted to take a break from the website and the forums, and that break turned out to be a lot longer

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NYPOST.COM Entertainment: GWYNETH SET TO QUIT 'MALE DOMINATED' H'WOOD By ALLAN HALL I wonder how long it took her between tiny little bites of rice cake to figure this out. Hey, Gwyneth. Hit the bricks. We don't need ya. Way to give up so easily on that whole 'Fight The Male-Dominated Power' thing. Give us a call when you're back to eating more than three meals a week, okay?

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Pope says abortion could lead to down fall of democracies Wow, and I thought we had to worry about corruption, deceit, evil, economic collapses, and Black Ops. Turns out it's abortion that's the biggest danger. Who knew? Hey, Pope. I'm sure you mean well, but stick to the patriarchal, ritual-obsessed religion you're the figurehead for, okay? Don't think you want to advertise the fact that

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Russians Challenge Skating Results (washingtonpost.com) Okay, now they're just sulking. If this is the way it's going to be in figure skating from now on, then take the sport right out of the Olympics, because there's no point to having countries contest results after every competition. If the Russians feel hard done by, well, it was their own fault for arranging the deal with the French to

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Sports Now, I don't mean to be overly blasphemous here, but the 'sport statue' depicting Jesus helping out a kid with his baseball swing is really funny. And doesn't His face look like he's grimacing a bit? "So, Jimmy, this is how you hold your bat. Now, give it a good stroke, that's it..."

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Yahoo! News - Skating Judges Stun NBC Announcers Russian figure skating pairs haven't lost the gold since the 1960 Olympics. Last night, the Canadian pair, Jamie Sale and David Pelletier, proved that you can be the best in the world, deliver the superior performance, and it still doesn't matter. The Russians win anyway, despite an obvious technical slip-up. As a Canadian, I suppose I could be

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New York Daily News Online | News and Views | Beyond the City | Insider Book on W: Hail to the Cheez Doodles So Bush doesn't know who Leo DiCaprio is. So Bush is somewhat clueless about the pop culture of the nation he's currently leading. So what? Would we really want a President who could kick ass at Trivial Pursuit? We're not looking for nerds at this job, are we? Besides, was Reagan up

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Lucasfilm unhappy over Enron use of Star Wars names Is Lucasfilm ever happy about anything? They shut down fan sites, whine about how Jar Jar was misunderstood, and now they don't like how Enron used Star Wars names for their subsidiaries. Wah-wah-freakin-wah. Why doesn't Lucas worry about the important stuff, like making sure the next two SW movies don't suck?

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Canadian Cable Giant Mulls New Fees To Curb 'Bandwidth Hogs' Those rat bastards. Well, I knew this day would eventually come; for most high-bandwidth users, their fat pipe is barely used for much more than casual surfing and e-mails. For hardcore maniacs, though, it's all about snagging music, videos, games, and programs. That's right - this whole thing is about file-sharing programs like

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Miami Herald: NASA issues alert on falling satellite debris If a 100 pound chunk of space junk smashes into your house at a few hundred miles per hour, do you get to sue NASA? Is there any liability involved for falling space debris? More importantly, if O.J. is playing golf and a piece of satellite interferes with the flight of his ball, thus interrupting his never-ending quest to find his

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America's Chaotic Road to War (washingtonpost.com) This is a beginning of a fascinating series detailing the events of September 11th from the government's point of view; what Bush was doing, what Cheney was doing, etc. The decisions that were made, the selflessness, the nervousness, the resolve.

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Brawl breaks out at Lewis-Tyson news conference Mike Tyson is not a boxer. He's a thug. He's one of those guys that fiendish villains hire to take care of the hero. He's Odd Job without the charisma. He's Jaws without the sensitivity. What a contrast to Muhammad Ali, who was socially conscious and as eloquent with his words as with his fists.

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'Indiana Jones 4' finally a go This is great, but Harrison is, what, sixty? One hopes for his sake that the story will involve passing the Indiana torch to someone else. The news that Kate Capshaw will be in the movie might be a hint; she was the love interest in 'Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom', and perhaps her character will show up with a surprise in the form of Indy's son. It would

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'X-Files' coming to an end Thank God. I stopped watching The X-Files regularly a couple of years ago, when it was clear that not even the writers knew what the hell was going on. The creator, Chris Carter, promises that all the loose ends will be tied up by the series finale, which is extremely unlikely, since there is another movie planned. This was a show where its mythology collapsed under

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Credit rates too high: McCallum This gets filed under the heading: No shit. This is my favorite part of the story, the corporate criminals' excuse: "Both banks and stores say they charge high rates to cover the risk of delinquent payments, losses and fraud as well as administrative costs." Yeah, right. Most of these cards have a yearly fee that's supposed to pay the admin costs. And what

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ABCNEWS.com : CIA Believes Bin Laden Escaped I can't see this as a big surprise. Remember, you've got half the world more than willing to hide this guy under the bed while America comes a-knockin'. I suspect it will be damn near impossible to find him unless he gets betrayed by a country looking to get paid. What gives us all pause is what he will do once he's got his terrorist network back

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And the 'Survivor' is... Well, the most boring of the three Survivor shows is finally over, and the guy with the least amount of personality won. Yay. It is my fervent hope that the producers cast a better bunch of people next time around, because this show needs compelling personalities to keep the audience interested. The contestants this time around were so anxious not to make waves and

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NBC Moves Away From Family Fare (washingtonpost.com) The mistake the networks always make is to purposefully target specific demographics when trying to create/choose new shows. Start with a great premise and good writers first, then find the acting talent, then find a strong director. The demographics will come to you. Was The West Wing created with a demographic in mind? How about The

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BBC News | SCI/TECH | Space rock hurtles past Earth Quote: "Dr Benny Peiser of Liverpool John Moores University, UK, told BBC News Online: 'The fact that this object was discovered less than a month ago leads to the question of if we would have had enough time to do anything about it had it been on a collision course with us. Of course the answer is no; there is nothing we could have done about

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Corona's Test Pattern - Scoops & News Quote: " It appears that the behemoth rental chain that fought the DVD age is now fighting widescreen DVDs. Blockbuster is attempting to use its considerable influence on DVD producers to release more full-frame or dual sided, widescreen and full-frame discs, rather than stock their shelves with the widescreen versions that are presently available. Their

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Freedom's Commmander-in-Chief John McCain's an interesting guy. He lost the Republican Presidential nomination in 2000 to George W., partly because he just couldn't match the fundraising of Bush junior. Instead of harbouring bitterness, McCain keeps demonstrating his loyalty to his party, and more importantly, his loyalty to his country. The next time the Republicans are looking for a

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http://www.usdoj.gov/opa/pr/2001/December/01_crm_643.htm The Feds crack down on software pirates... This battle is a lot like the war on drugs. A lot of time, money, and manpower spent on punishing those affected by the problem instead of dealing with the problem itself in a rational manner. People pirate games because it's human nature to want something for free. When it comes right down to

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Geraldo Ducks to Avoid Sniper Fire (washingtonpost.com) And I thought the CIA gave these Taliban fighters some decent weapons training...

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TIME.com: Reinventing the Wheel So Ginger, or IT, or whatever you knew it as is finally here, and it's called the Segway. Will it revolutionize the world? Who knows? I was hoping for a hover vehicle of some sort, but... For urban dwellers, this thing might just be a dream come true, but the hard part will be getting rid of all the cars. I suspect the auto industry might have something to

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Osama's Mountain Fortress This clearly calls for the highly specialized skills of one man: Bond. James Bond. Failing that, Eric Cartman.

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Survivor: Africa: Episode Seven The writer of this article, John Powell, makes a good point when he says that the show is veering from its basic theme, which is 16 people trying to survive in a hostile and unknown environment. Instead it's becoming a manufactured soap opera. If I wanted soap opera, I would watch it. The show has just become less and less compelling with each week. Hopefully

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ESPN.com: MLB - Ichiro edges Giambi for AL MVP Exhibit # 2512 in the argument that sportswriters as a group have about as much sense as a bunch of network executives. The only reason Ichiro Suzuki won the MVP was the hype. All season long, he was the player everybody talked about. Naturally, given that sportswriters have the same problem as Oscar voters with long-term memory, they remember

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Ottawa Sun: Simpson defence draws laughter Ah, O.J. If not for the September 11th tragedy, your road rage trial would be front page news. Instead, you're relegated to the back pages where you belong. We can only hope that you're found guilty, and you finally have to serve some prison time. Karma's a bitch, ain't it?

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Survivor: Africa: Episode Two For a minute there, I thought I was watching an episode of Buffy - what was with all that blood-drinking? I would like to put forth a new strategy for prospective Survivor contestants: vote off the young, healthy stud males. Look how far Colby got in Survivor II. He used his physical prowess as currency for the others in his tribe to fight over, and once the

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Suspicious Incident at Md. Subway Long time, no post. Sorry. :) I don't have to tell you that the last few weeks have been strange and unsettling. Anyway... The thing about wackos is that they generally need a trigger to go off. I suspect 9/11 is just that kind of trigger. Now we're hearing about anthrax in Boca Raton, an armed man with a mysterious jar on the Washington subway, and God

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Mischief at disaster site It's stunning how assholes come out of the woodwork so quickly after a tragedy to capitalize on the confusion and grief. It's a crying shame.

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Bid to Thwart Hijackers May Have Led to Pa. Crash (washingtonpost.com) If this is indeed how it happened, if a group of passengers on United Airlines Flight 93 got together and decided to take on the hijackers before they reached their target... God, what courage. What selflessness. They would have known that their struggle would mean death for all of them. They would have known that they

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Plane Attacks Destroy World Trade Center, Hit Pentagon Is this the first shot fired in a war that will engulf the globe? Or an act of barbarism perpetrated by a cowardly group of thugs that prefers to accomplish its ends by killing innocent civilians. Either way, the world is a different place today. Only God knows how this will end.

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British Firm Tests World's First Nicotine Vaccine Wow. This would be so cool if it works. Can't quit smoking? A couple shots in the arm will take care of that for you. Wonder what the tobacco companies think about this?

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Labels paid MTV for Britney, J.Lo, *NSync appearances ...Just like they paid MTV to play their videos in high rotation, right? Payola is alive and well, kids. Instead of radio DJs raking in the big bucks (and don't kid yourself, they get some decent swag, too), it's MTV and other music video channels that make out like bandits. This is another reason why artists get the short end of the stick

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Economists cut 2001, 2002 outlook: poll - Sep. 10, 2001 Quote: "The U.S. economy will grow at a slower pace than previously thought but a recovery from the yearlong slowdown is likely to come by the end of 2001, a panel of economists said Monday." Well, even though their conclusion might actually be legitimate... What the hell else are they going to say? That we're totally screwed? If they

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Intel to offer mid-quarter business update - Sep. 6, 2001 Without Intel rival AMD, computer prices would be a lot higher. While AMD only has 20% of the market, it's enough to make Intel drop prices on their processors to keep pace. Since AMD's chips are just as fast, if not faster, than Intel's chips, in many cases it would be foolish to spend more money on an Intel-based computer when you get

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HP to buy Compaq for $25B in stock - Sep. 4, 2001 This is the most important sentence in the whole story: "The companies said the merger is expected to eventually save $2.5 billion a year, and an HP spokesman said that the merger will lead to the elimination of about 15,000 jobs." That's 15,000 more people on the unemployment line. How much do you want to bet there aren't many management

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CNN.com - Claim filed against Maine couple holding winning Powerball ticket - August 30, 2001 The lawsuit is being filed by co-workers of the winners, who claim that the winning ticket was part of a group of tickets bought in an office pool. At my job, I'm in a little office pool of seven people that buys a lottery ticket once a week. All of these people are my friends. If I happened to buy a

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