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12 Mar 2009 10:04

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Politics: Republicans on Obama: Slow down, you move too fast

  • The problem we have is, we don’t know after 50-plus days in office what the distance of the race is and what’s the level of the president’s pace or his endurance.
  • Ed Rollins • Former political director for Ronald Reagan and the guy behind Mike Huckabee’s somewhat resonant presidential primary campaign, on what Barack Obama’s big problem is. Personally, we don’t like his ears. They stick out too much. • source
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11 Mar 2009 21:09

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Politics, U.S.: Speaking of celebrity couples, Bristol Palin broke up with her bf

  • They have a kid with a gubernatorial granny. Sarah Palin – remember her? She was that vice presidential candidate who was on everyone’s lips for like two months. Then we forgot about her. Anyway, her daughter Bristol, who was pregnant during the campaign, broke up with her boyfriend Levi Johnston recently. They have son, Tripp. (As in “Tripp up the campaign”? Sorry, that was harsh.) But anyway, yeah. Now it’s on the record. Back to not caring about Sarah Palin anymore. source
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11 Mar 2009 20:34

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Culture, Politics: Ryan Adams + Mandy Moore = Married. Call them “Random.”

  • On celebrity couple names They’re a necessary evil. They create mass hysteria. They adopt more kids and gather more press than they really should, so why not take the thing that makes them truly notable – their name recognition – and bastardize and commoditize it? Magazines are happy. Talk show hosts are happy. And you make them collectively weak. source
  • On celebrity couple names They’re a necessary evil. They create mass hysteria. They adopt more kids and gather more press than they really should, so why not take the thing that makes them truly notable – their name recognition – and bastardize and commoditize it? Magazines are happy. Talk show hosts are happy. And you make them collectively weak.
  • Why they deserve “Random” First of all, who seriously expected Ryan Freakin’ Adams, the guy who releases six albums a year of varying quality, to marry the third-tier Britney Spears who somehow came out of teen stardom unscathed? And “Random” is a great way to describe it. And a clever way to work their name together. Happy honeymoon, Random! source
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11 Mar 2009 02:44

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Politics: Jim Cramer took the Jon Stewart CNBC beatdown like a whiny baby

“A COMEDIAN! A COMEDIAN had the nerve to take me down! A COMEDIAN!” source
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11 Mar 2009 01:37

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Politics, Tech: The Weekly Standard piles on the Facebook hate, big time

  • I will never, ever join Facebook, the omnipresent online social-networking site that like so many things that have menaced our country (the Unabomber, Love Story, David Gergen) came to us from Harvard but has now worked its insidious hooks into every crevice of society.
  • Matt Labash • Senior editor of The Weekly Standard, in an article criticizing the site due to its sheer size, impersonality, mundanity and the way that it takes intrigue away from personal relationships. Yeah, so? It’s because we want our friends to know we’re watching “Gossip Girl.” Labash wrote this just in time for Facebook’s soon-to-launch redesign, by the way. • source
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10 Mar 2009 20:41

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Biz, Politics: Yo Apple, mind not putting this massive ad on every site?

We get it. It’s a big ad. And it’s cool and well-done. But it’s on all of our favorite sites. All of them. source
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10 Mar 2009 10:36

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Offbeat, Politics: Chuck Norris sounds like a nutjob with all this revolution talk

  • How much more will Americans take? When will enough be enough? And, when that time comes, will our leaders finally listen or will history need to record a second American Revolution?
  • Chuck Norris • In his latest conservative column for WorldNetDaily, titled “I May Run for President of Texas.” Yeah Chuck, you have fun with your revolution. • source
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10 Mar 2009 10:20

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Culture, Politics: Woz danced with the stars, sucked pretty bad

  • In an opening act that was effortful, but, at times, reminiscent of a varicose vein on cocaine, Wozniak chased his professional partner, Karina Smirnoff, around the dance floor and rarely caught a glimpse of her exquisite hem.
  • Chris Matyszczyk • CNet columnist, reviewing Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak’s performance on “Dancing with the Stars.” The judges didn’t like him either – one judge referred to his dancing abilities being “like a Teletubby going mad.” • source
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09 Mar 2009 10:48

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Politics: Jon Stewart’s not alone in his CNBC criticism

  • When they are all sitting around the table it’s hard to tell a business pundit versus a reporter.
  • Tom Rosenstiel • Director of the Project for Excellence in Journalism, on the way that CNBC often combines reporting and editorializing seamlessly. He said it less funny than Stewart did, though. • source
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09 Mar 2009 00:49

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Music, Politics: Our rating of the redesigned Pitchfork Web site

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