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The “playoff beard” to its logical extreme: Gary Weddle, 50, made a vow following al-Qaeda’s attack on September 11th, 2001 — that he wouldn’t shave until Osama bin Laden was captured or confirmed dead. “I spent my first five minutes crying and then I couldn’t get it off fast enough,” Weddle said. His wife, on the beard’s departure: “I respected his passion and keeping a vow. I was willing to look past the beard because I love him… He looks 10 years younger.” source

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In recent weeks, Tommy Boy Coburn has been making his hack-slash budget views very known. In the last couple weeks, his meddling has even led to the omnibus spending bill (which would’ve, among other things, paid for health care) getting pushed back. He’s been putting attention on earmarks and other major factors, so when Coburn showed up on Fox News Sunday today, it’s obvious what he was there for. He wanted to get his two cents in on wasteful spending. Here’s the key part (which we skipped ahead for), where he talks about redundancy. Is he right? Is the redundancy what’s killing us? And why did Tom Coburn grow a beard, anyway, guys?

A little out of breath Poor Martin Savidge. Beyond the fact that he was working at CNN on Christmas Day (the worst of the worst shifts, by the way), he appears to have leapt into his chair almost too quickly, completely unable to keep up with his lines We can’t judge. We’d blow this, too.
Hockey confuses Rachel Maddow It’s the holidays; even Rachel Maddow is allowed to let the seriousness fade away for a few days and take it easy. So, she has a question … what the heck is this waffle-throwing phenomenon with the Toronto Maple Leafs? And why does she need to care?

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So, disregarding the stuff Tom Coburn is saying here (it’s pretty bad and can be refuted fairly easily by anyone who watches the news), we’d like to take a minute to note that Tom Coburn is the new Joe Miller. See, had Miller been elected, he would’ve been the only member of the Senate to rock a beard. But, since Miller blew that opportunity (and is still fighting the results in court for some reason), Coburn has taken up his mantle as the only Senator with a beard. And like Miller’s beard, Coburn’s also has a Twitter account. (thanks corruptpolitics) source

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beard “That was my small victory,
you know. OK, so I lost ‘The
Tonight Show,’ but I’ll show them – I’ll stop shaving.”
tour “When we started putting this tour together, I started to feel better almost immediately. There is almost no better antidote.” source

» But what about Jay Leno? The comic didn’t mince words in talking about his new adversary. “Jay’s got The Tonight Show. I have a beard and an inflatable bat. And I’m touring city to city. Who can say who won and who lost?”

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Holy crap. Farrah Fawcett and Michael Jackson were bad enough, but word is that Billy Mays, that bearded icon of selling crap, died in his Tampa home this morning. NOOOOOOooooooooo! source

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Kanye says his beard is in fact not going gray, like this photo on the cover of Vibe suggested. source

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02 May 2011 16:52