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20 Jun 2010 22:00

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Politics: Max Headroom: Mike Huckabee made a good cocaine joke


  • Mike Huckabee: Hi-lariousOn “Red Eye” the other night, the former Arkansas governor suggested – in response to Sarah Palin calling marijuana a “minimal” problem – that Palin was using coke. Hilariously. Huckabee wins the award for “funniest Republican.”

  • Sharron Angle folds Protip: If you only show your face on conservative news programs and only play to the base, eventually you won’t know how to handle tough questions from real reporters, a situation that KLAS-TV noticed and MSNBC regaled.

  • Rahm emanuel radiatesDoesn’t Obama’s top dude sound like he knows the score here with the energy bill? You know it. Problem is, he (and Obama) are trying to push it during the oil spill, which seems like it might dampen the whole idea altogether.
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20 Jun 2010 21:27

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Culture: “Toy Story 3” has exponential growth over the original “Toy Story”

  • $109M the size of the opening for “Toy Story 3,” Pixar’s largest ever opener
  • $57M the size of the opening of “Toy Story 2,” which doubled the original
  • $29M the size of the opening for the original “Toy Story” source
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20 Jun 2010 21:08

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Politics: The stupidest quote we’ve ever seen on friendship, ever

  • Parents sometimes say Johnny needs that one special friend. We say he doesn’t need a best friend.
  • School counselor Christine Laycob • On fighting the tide of human nature, which emphasizes that Tango needs his very own Cash. Instead, Laycob says that it’s better that kids have groups of friends who meet at specified times for playdates. Dear Ms. Laycob: Let kids be kids! Don’t force modest, superficial relationships on people over real ones with real emotions! Can’t you just sit in an office all day and be useless like most school counselors? You make it seem like close relationships are awful ideas. source
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20 Jun 2010 20:48

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U.S.: Holy crap: Officials shoot and kill fugitive bear from helicopter

This bear attacked an old guy at Yellowstone, so authorities took to a helicopter and shot it to death. It was the first bear mauling around the park in 25 years. source
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20 Jun 2010 20:38

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World: Currently missing, feared dead: A bunch of mining executives

  • 11 people were on the plane that went missing over Cameroon
  • eight were mining executives, six for Sundance Resources
  • one was a billionaire, Aussie mining magnate Ken Talbot source
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20 Jun 2010 12:06

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Politics: Elena Kagan could bring unique profanities to the Supreme Court

  • OK, that settles it. Anyone who uses the word ‘unf*&#ing-believable’ is an OK Supreme Court justice in my book. Think of the dissenting opinions!
  • Gawker blogger Adrian Chen • Responding to the Clinton Presidential library’s release of a number of Elena Kagan’s e-mails from her period in the administration. To answer the obvious question: Yes, she swore a lot back then. And yes, like Gawker, we hope she swears even more as a Supreme Court justice. source
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20 Jun 2010 11:54

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Culture: Posted without comment: Photo from new season of “Futurama”

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20 Jun 2010 11:48

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Offbeat: Three words: Tap-dancing duck. (Tap-dancing duck?!?!?)

  • This duck could totally make a routine out of this. Give him some bread and he’ll go all Fred Astaire on you. He should use his skills to speak out for his oil-soaked brethren in the Gulf Coast. Just sayin’.
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20 Jun 2010 11:38

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Culture: Slowly but surely, Michael Jackson’s kids becoming normal(ish)

  • They don’t have any friends. They don’t go to school, they have private lessons at home – but that will change in September, when they are due to enroll at private college.
  • Michael Jackson’s mother, Katherine Jackson • On her grandkids’ future as actual human beings who may actually have friends. The three kids – Prince, Paris and (our favorite) Blanket – plan to go to school. RIght now, they spend their days hanging around and listening to their father’s music. They have big aspirations, though – Prince wants to produce movies and Paris is musically-inclined. And we’re pretty sure none of them own llamas yet. When they’re old enough to buy one, we know where they could get one on the black market. source
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20 Jun 2010 11:32

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Culture: Is there an “Avatar” porn moving coming out (in 3D)?!

  • YES Larry Flynt, porn’s James Cameron, is making it source
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