Another Santorum slip-up! Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum doesn’t think former POW and torture survivor John McCain quite understands how torture works. Expect a lot more Santorum messes in the next few months; Santorum spreads everywhere!
Paul Constant
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I Don’t Like This
Gizmodo: Lior and Vardit Adler just had a baby girl. She’s probably all cute and wrinkly! But they hate her soo much that they named her Like, in honor of the Like button in Facebook. In their defense, the parents say, “I believe there will be people who will lift a eyebrow, but it is […]
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Trump Out
Someone call the waaaaaahmbulance: Big real estate baby Donald Trump has decided his widdwe ego can’t handle a run for president: I maintain the strong conviction that if I were to run, I would be able to win the primary and ultimately, the general election. I have spent the past several months unofficially campaigning and […]
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Let’s Read the Hilarious Results of the New Zogby Poll of Republican Candidates
Yesterday, Zogby announced the results of their most recent poll about Republican presidential candidates. The results are awesome: Chris Christie, the teabaggy governor of New Jersey, is in the lead. (He has repeatedly said he isn’t running.) Here’s the top of the list: Chris Christie 17% Herman Cain 14% Ron Paul 10% Mitt Romney 9% […]
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Today in Conceptual Technology: The Bento Book Makes Me Drool
This concept from RISD student René Lee is circling the interbutts today, and I think it’s a gorgeous idea: The Bento Book looks like a laptop, but you can remove each of the compartments to use as separate devices. There’s a solar-powered battery pack, a hard drive, a tablet, and a phone. It looks like […]
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Google Music Vs. Pirates
I was excited to hear about Google Music this morning. I tried to be excited about Amazon’s Cloud Player, but the uploader crashed repeatedly and I finally gave up. Google is usually pretty good about making the uploading process fairly seamless. But Gizmodo says that Google has some plans that make the service look a […]
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The David Foster Wallace Endnote Generator
So, so good. I like the John McCain ones best:
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The Sarah Palin Brand Is Losing Value
Newsweek thinks Sarah Palin might be over: Between February and April, according to an analysis for NEWSWEEK by General Sentiment, a company that tracks and measures online content, posts involving Palin fell 38.3 percent, to 235,032, over the past 30 days. Social-media mentions dropped in lockstep, down 32 percent over the same period, to 135,421. […]
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Gingrich and Santorum Are Now Unemployed
Politico says: Fox News has terminated its contracts with former Speaker Newt Gingrich and former Senator Rick Santorum after the deadline for them to decide on presidential bids passed on May 1, a source familiar with the move told POLITICO. Sarah Palin and Mike Huckabee are still employed by Fox News. It’s getting kind of […]
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Someone in Texas Disagrees with Me
Just got an e-mail from Fort Worth, Texas regarding my Osama bin Laden story in this week’s Merc: Subject: Black Hawk Rising I stopped reading after the first paragraph… O and his pals have made a mess out of this. Bring some adult leadership back to the WH like the guys that killed O. Here’s […]
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Black Hawk Rising
Bin Laden’s Dead, Obama Wins—What’s a GOP to Do?
Bin Laden’s dead, Obama wins—so what’s a GOP to do?
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Minnesota Republican Calls Neil Gaiman a “pencil-necked little weasel who stole $45,000 from the state of Minnesota”
Robot 6 has the story: Explaining why the state funding for the arts is undergoing scrutiny, House Majority Leader Matt Dean singled out $45,000 in Legacy money paid to author and comics writer Neil Gaiman for a four-hour appearance at a Stillwater public library in May 2010. Dean is quote as saying that Gaiman, “who […]