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Jim Garfield: USA Takes One and Two Spots with Full International Field

USA Takes One and Two Spots with Full International Field Another stunning day unveiled itself in the French Alps for the second full day of…

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Kellan Lutz Shows off His Muscles on A Buzy Day

Kellan Lutz is showing off his muscles on a buzy day in Los Angeles! Wow look at Lutz’ bulging biceps! The Twilight hottie had a day filled with errands earlier this week. Oh, I could have help you Kellan…

more Kellan and his seriously ripped biceps after the jump…
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Khloe Kardashian and Lamar Odom Use “iChat” to Keep Things Sexy

Khloe Kardashian and hubby Lamar Odom spend hours each day on iChat to keep things sexy when they are apart! Kardashian and Odom know how important it is for them to spend time together to keep their relationship alive even when they are apart so they turn to the mighty Internet.

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With Friends Like Rush Limbaugh …

Poor Eric Massa — it only took a day to go from being Rush Limbaugh’s hero:

This story speaks for itself … Massa says the White House and Emanuel went after him because of the health care vote … Now, Massa warns us what we all know, but I think you need to hear it from a Democrat being forced out by Obama and Steny Hoyer and Pelosi … So Congressman Massa, we’re doing our part here to make it a national story … This guy is as fired up as anybody I’ve ever heard anywhere opposed this, and the process and how they’re getting it done. This guy is going to have so much support from people.

… to this:

All I knew was this guy was telling great stories about Rahm Emanuel … Here we have a legitimate kook … Anybody who embraces this guy is going to get caught … This guy is a loose canon and he’s a risk … This guy’s name didn’t even ring a bell.

Of course, the funny part is that it took Limbaugh nearly a day to figure out that it was probably not a good idea to embrace a guy whose story went from cancer, to salty language, to fracking, to, THEY’RE ALL OUT TO GET ME, and now to groping. Maybe he was stoned.


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Mia Kirshner: Women: The Oil That Turns the Wheels for ‘I Live Here’

The oil that turns the wheels of I Live Here Projects are women who volunteer. This International Women’s Day, I want to acknowledge the women who shared their stories and are improving lives.

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Non-Sequiturs 03.08.10

Thumbnail image for Chief Justice John Roberts baseball card.jpg* The “judge as umpire” analogy is kind of weak. [Yale Law Journal via Concurring Opinions]

* Fellas, if your lady says she can’t tell the difference between having sex with you and having sex with your twin brother, she’s lying. [Law is Cool]

* You know what is good about electing judges instead of appointing them? Seriously. That wasn’t a rhetorical question. Americans really don’t know how to choose people for the first two branches of government; how can we expect them to come to any reasonable decision about the most arcane branch? [Choose Judges on Merit]

* Did everybody notice “Lady Kanye” at the Oscars last night? The director’s mother allegedly tried to stop the interloper with a cane. [Salon]

* It is International Women’s Day. Luckily, De Beers doesn’t require me to offer a material profession of love on this day, so if it’s all the same to you I’m going to let Blawg Review explain it all while I go watch college basketball. [Sui Generis via Blawg Review]

* David Lat and other media moguls will discuss the future of media. I’m told that more than 140 characters will be used. [Facebook]




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Therese Borchard: 10 Good Things About Depression

I do hereby appreciate the gifts that this ugly and manipulative beast (depression) has laid upon my table, and so–in David Letterman style I give you the top 10.

World

Beverly Bell: Haitian Women Mourn the Dead and Recommit to the Living (International Women’s Day Part 1)

All over Haiti on March 8, International Women’s Day, women’s groups will meet to honor their dead and raise up their living. As for how…

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Nice weather, global warming, and a cute little Szechuan bharal

By Michael J.W. StickingsIt was a beautiful, sunny, Spring-like day here in the Toronto area, and I spent much of it east of the city, past Oshawa, enjoying not being anywhere near the city, out in the lovely small towns along Lake Ontario.(As an aside…

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Oscar Best Director Award: James Cameron or Kathryn Bigelow

 With the Academy Awards just a day away, won’t you love to find out who’s most likely to bag the Best Director Award? James Cameron or Kathryn Bigelow? MSN has been monitoring over 825,000 posts across all six categories Since Jan 1, 2010…

more Best Director predictions after the jump…
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Mediocrity and the web

As any web head knows, the world is changing fast in profound ways, every day, all around us.
Not everybody likes the new regime. Sadly for them, there’s diddly-squat they can do about it.
They might as well try outlawing the moon.
This cartoon and quote is from the Gaping Void newsletter. Hugh MacLeod has a new cartoon [...]

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Denise Brodey: Dear Judith, Don’t Worry. We’re Reading.

What is my 11-year-old’s obsession right now? THE iPAD. HE WANTS TO READ ON IT. He is not much of a reader–so this is EXCITING.

Politics

March 4 Day of Action. Student Activists

StudentActivism.net has over 100 actions planned for today.

March 4 Day of Action to Defend Education is a grass-roots event in which students, faculty, and others are coming together around the country to speak and act. The Day of Action was originally conceived in California as a response to the current crisis in higher [...]

Politics

Teabaggers, New Jersey-style

No one accused the teabaggers of intelligence.

Conservative Tea Party activists in New Jersey should have the right to try to throw a Democratic U.S. senator out of office, their lawyer argued in a state appeals court Tuesday, even though he acknowledged it is unlikely their effort would succeed.

Of course, the US Constitution makes no provisions for the recall of federal elected officials. The Supreme Court has made clear that the only way to create mid-term vacancies are death or expulsion by the Senate.

But the rule of law isn’t of concern to this jokers. As New Jersey Democratic Chairman John Wisniewski’s said in a statement:

“The attempt to recall Senator Menendez is an affront to the voters of New Jersey and has no standing in law.  One day these folks are trying to disprove human evolution, the next day they are challenging the constitutionality of the Constitution. These are radical people who chose Menendez off of a list of Democrats because of the sound of his last name.”


World

Steven Weber: White Collar Anarchy

Obstruction is the name of the Republicans’ game, and team sports cannot be played if one team just plain refuses to even take the field.

World

Chile Earthquake May Have Shortened Earth’s Day, Shifted Axis

NEW YORK — Earth’s days may have gotten a little bit shorter since the massive earthquake in Chile, but don’t feel bad if you haven’t noticed.

The difference would be only about one-millionth of a second.
Richard Gross, a scient…

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DC Gay Marriage: Same-Sex Marriage Licenses Coming As Supreme Court Refuses To Block Law

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to block the District of Columbia’s gay marriage law, freeing the city to issue its first marriage licenses to same-sex couples the following day.

Opponents of gay marriage in the nation…

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Dylan Ratigan Goes Off On Tea Party Guest, Kicks Him Off Show: ‘You’re Offensive’ (VIDEO)

On Tuesday afternoon, MSNBC host Dylan Ratigan got so upset with one of his guests, “Tea Party” leader Mark Williams, that he cut off his mic mid-interview, dispatching him off the air prematurely. Williams was on MSNBC talking about his upcom…

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