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Friday, May 16th, 2008
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6:44 pm - gross
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6:37 pm - hahahahahahahaha
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6:35 pm - neat-o
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5:09 pm - mazal tov
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1:03 pm - priceless
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fair trial follies
Nothing gets prospective jurors booted faster than telling the prosecution they are a fan of Kelly's. Just ask the woman who called him a "musical genius." When prodded to say something negative about Kelly, the best she could come up with was: "He and [rapper] Jay-Z don't get along?" Prosecutors bounced her soon after.
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| Thursday, May 15th, 2008
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2:18 pm - serious gangsta shit
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12:35 pm - wow, cnn
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12:00 pm - they're lucky he was wearing a robe
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| Tuesday, May 13th, 2008
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11:29 pm - credit where it's due
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i have to say, i like the sounds i'm hearing from the clinton campaign tonight.
sure, there may be one or two cheap shots, but on the whole, its pretty above the board.
and i think she's right: the extended primary election has served to strengthen the eventual nominee and keep media attention focused away from john mccain (provided, at least, that the remaining month of primaries leads to a downplaying of primary rhetoric and an emphasis on similarities and mutual respect).
i must admit, i'm still pretty angry about the whole gas tax holiday bullshit, but i'm really starting to see myself reembracing our own good senator from new york.
have a look yourself, if you've got 20 minutes:
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5:21 pm - doing bacon is illegal
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11:01 am - futurecar
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| Monday, May 12th, 2008
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5:48 pm - dog bites man
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| Saturday, May 10th, 2008
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5:56 am - fuck fuck fuckity fuck fuck fuck
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| Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
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10:44 pm - wowza
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so iron man may not be the perfect superhero movie, but it was pretty fuckin close
(major criticism: the end title sequence should have been the opening title sequence)
in your face, the onion
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| Saturday, May 3rd, 2008
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9:06 pm - where do they find the time?
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media drugs:
if you take Wikipedia as a kind of unit, all of Wikipedia, the whole project--every page, every edit, every talk page, every line of code, in every language that Wikipedia exists in--that represents something like the cumulation of 100 million hours of human thought. I worked this out with Martin Wattenberg at IBM; it's a back-of-the-envelope calculation, but it's the right order of magnitude, about 100 million hours of thought.
And television watching? Two hundred billion hours, in the U.S. alone, every year. Put another way, now that we have a unit, that's 2,000 Wikipedia projects a year spent watching television. Or put still another way, in the U.S., we spend 100 million hours every weekend, just watching the ads.
then again, i guess bill waterson made this point 20 years ago
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| Thursday, May 1st, 2008
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2:50 pm - holy shit, dudes!!
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| Tuesday, April 29th, 2008
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11:55 pm - um, wow
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11:19 pm - fucking shameless
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i'm really sorry that it's come to this, but i think i've lost all respect for hillary clinton.
Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton lined up with Senator John McCain, the presumptive Republican nominee for president, in endorsing a plan to suspend the federal excise tax on gasoline, 18.4 cents a gallon, for the summer travel season.
she's seriously gotta be fucking kidding. she knows better than this, she really does, and to see her debase herself on this kind of bullshit (with emphases both on this kind and on bullshit) is both really embarrassing and utterly infuriating to me, as a constituent and longtime admirer. this fucking burns me, and makes me want to see her live in ignominy.
on a seperate, but related, note:
QUIT FUCKING KIDDING YOURSELVLES, PEOPLE!
GAS WILL ONLY GET MORE EXPENSIVE FROM HERE ON OUT
THERE'S NOTHING ANYBODY CAN DO ABOUT THAT
THE WORLD IS RUNNING OUT OF OIL
IT WONT BE GETTING ANY CHEAPER UNTIL NOBODY NEEDS IT ANY MORE
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| Monday, April 28th, 2008
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12:08 am - modo
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since im on a what the hell is wrong with people kick (e.g. ben stein, joe lieberman)
what the hell is wrong with maureen dowd? seriously, how vapid, callow and utterly devoid of substance does an op-ed column have to be in order to be rejected by the new york fucking times?!??!!!! i mean, it doesn't even advance an argument in favor of anyone or anything.
SERENTIY NOW!!!
whatever.
in the words of adam sandler, maureen dowd can lick my sweaty nutsack.
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| Sunday, April 27th, 2008
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11:10 pm - what is to be done?
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kyle murphy, former nypd lieutenant and current columbia university journalism graduate student, makes a thoroughly unconvincing argument in defense of sean bell's killers, yet still raises some important points.
his main argument: police officers often risk their physical persons, and even their very lives, in the service of public safety, and people (i.e. police officers) with guns who fear for their lives tend to much more be inclined to employ their firemarms in (perceived) self-defense, and its too easy for people who don't have to jeopardize their lives in the course of their work to judge them in the aftermath.
this is a fine point to make, as far as it goes, and one i think that is easily overlooked in light of the truly outrageous facts of sean bell's killing (unarmed! wedding day! 50 bullets, for fuck's sake! that one guy unloaded a clip, reloaded, and unloaded the second one!).
i have to say, though, the question it really raises for me is whether we ought to have our patrol officers marching around with sidearms. i remember how big a deal it was back in the 90s when scotland yard started allowing a few, select officers to carry firearms, and they seem to do ok in a city thats pretty comparable to new york in terms of size and socio-economic diversity. arming every officer with a gun just seems like an excessive invitation for the use of deadly force, especially considering the existential incentives that make a shoot-first-ask-questions-later policy almost a given.
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