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22 Sep 2010 23:55

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Culture: Misguided outfit of the day: Katy Perry wearing faux-cleavage for Elmo

  • Katy Perry has cleavage. No getting around that, unless you’re the Children’s Television Workshop and you decide you can’t show that kind of thing to preschoolers. So, whaddya do? You have the pop starlet wear a top that looks exactly like skin, getting around the cleavage problem in the most inefficient way possible and making people think that, yes, she’s falling out of her top. How hilarious is it that Perry’s apparently trying to soften her sultry image for kids? And failing? (On a side note, Perry barely snatched the “Misguided outfit of the day” award from Jennifer Lopez.) source
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22 Sep 2010 21:31

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Culture: New American Idol judges the same two everyone expected

Question: Who looks older, the actually-old Steven Tyler or Jennifer Lopez wearing that Celine Dionish onesie? source
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22 Sep 2010 21:00

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U.S.: Not a “contract,” a “pledge”: The GOP’s new doohicky to America

  • 21 pages of trying to relive a fleeting footnote in history source
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22 Sep 2010 20:12

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Tech: Facebook wants to wholly, completely integrate with your phone

  • No, Mark isn’t building a phone. But the Facebook CEO does have some very bold, audacious goals for mobile: He basically wants to allow phone-makers (and end-users) to use Facebook to automatically personalize phones on the fly. “On phones we can actually do something better,” he told the dudes at TechCrunch. “We can do a single sign-on if we do a good integration with a phone, rather than just doing something where you go to an app and it’s automatically social or having to sign into each app individually.” That could be pretty friggin’ rad if that’s the case. Or friggin’ scary. source
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22 Sep 2010 19:55

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Politics: Rahm Emanuel, the next Chicago mayor? Take a number, buddy

  • positive If Rahm Emanuel were to leave the White House to run for mayor of Chicago, he has a decent chance of doing well.
  • negative Everybody and their brother is thinking of running for Mayor Daley’s seat, meaning it’d be a freaking huge fight. source
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22 Sep 2010 18:25

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U.S.: California city lacks any oversight whatsoever

  • $56 million a year in illegal taxation in one city source
  • » According to an audit by State Controller John Chiang, the City Council of Bell, CA approved millions of dollars in fraudulent taxation in 2007, mostly for the benefit of former City Administrator Robert Rizzo. The charges include $93,000 to pay off Rizzo’s personal debts, $10 million to one of Rizzo’s business partners, and $1 million in pay raises for Rizzo and his assistant. The taxes were raised without voter approval and lacking any substantive debate on the part of the city council, Chiang says. The best part? The audit isn’t even done yet!
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22 Sep 2010 11:06

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U.S.: Bishop Eddie Long’s allegations shocking, contradictory

It’s weird when some of the staunchest anti-homosexuality figures are accused of homosexuality. Megachurch leader Bishop Eddie Long could be in huge trouble. source
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22 Sep 2010 10:51

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Tech: Internet Explorer 9’s beta doing some boffo downloads

  • 2 million downloads in only two days – not bad considering no XP source
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22 Sep 2010 10:44

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Politics: Andrew Cuomo leads in NY Gov. race; Carl Paladino holding his own

  • 49% support popular New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo
  • 43% support Carl Paladino, who tried winning political points from the “Ground Zero Mosque” issue
  • 8% support hiding in a dark room until election day is over source
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22 Sep 2010 10:34

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Politics: Three Obama quotes from Bob Woodward’s new Afghan War book

  • one “I’m not doing 10 years. I’m not doing long-term nation-building. I am not spending a trillion dollars.”
  • two “Everything we’re doing has to be focused on how we’re going to get to the point where we can reduce our footprint.”
  • three “I have to say that.
    I can’t let this be a war without end, and I can’t lose the whole Democratic Party.” source
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