Dr. C: Boston and the End to the Endless War
Maiello's Book-Almost Hits the Metaphorical Stands
Miami Fans Mistakenly Chant "Let's Go Eat" During Playoff Game
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Dr. C: Boston and the End to the Endless War Maiello's Book-Almost Hits the Metaphorical Stands Miami Fans Mistakenly Chant "Let's Go Eat" During Playoff Game |
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War Games: South Korea and the U.S. are conducting war games in an attempt to see just how friggin’ nuts Kim Jong-Il can get. [Read more]
Before you watch this campaign video for Alvin Greene, remember one important thing – you’ll never be able to unwatch it. [Read more]

Jersey Shore: And you thought the first season was wacky. (via MTV)
Storming the Gulf: Oil clean-up workers, BP prepare to evacuate with a storm on the horizon. [Read more]

Don’t believe the hype – Andrew Breitbart has video of this black puppy saying terrible things about white puppies. (via Cute Overload) [Read more]

Life: Sometimes you’re the penguin, sometimes you’re the whale.
Unemployment Extensions: After Obama put on the pressure, it looks like Unemployment insurance will be extended for the next three months – right up until a couple of weeks before the election. [Read more]

Breaking News, American Style. Via Prosebeforehos.
Gulf Oil Disaster: The cap remains on British Petroleum’s oil geyser, but an apparent leak and “undetermined anomalies” mean the happy ending is still a long way off.
U.S. Intelligence: It’s a complete mess, according to the Washington Post. [Read more]

The Debate is over. The chicken came first.
Utah’s List: So someone in the Utah government releases a list of names of alleged illegal immigrants and sends it all around. Can someone explain to me again how Obama is the Nazi? [Read more]

The arrival of heavily armed monsters barely caused a stir with most Americans (HT Dvorak).
Small Banks Can Bite It: Seems the bailout of mega-banks has hurt smaller banks. But they can deal with it themselves.
There. Are. No. Jobs.: Why Unemployment Insurance must be extended. [Read more]
Yes, they survived. See Boing Boing for more on a Holocaust Survivor, his daughter & Grand children dancing at concentration camps and memorials throughout Europe. [Read more]

Spain Takes First World Cup: In a game that featured two beautiful teams playing rough-and-tumble soccer, Andre Iniesta hit an overtime goal to give Spain it’s first World Cup title as it beat Netherlands 1-0, and concluded a successful World Cup in South Africa. [Read more]

LeBron James may be new to town, but he better learn that Miami belongs to Dexter Morgan.
Johannes Mehserle was convicted of involuntary manslaughter – the least possible sentence – after shooting an immobilized and unarmed Oscar Grant on the Oakland Subway system. Here’s how some media organizations described the aftermath: [Read more]

Mama Grizzlies: Sarah Palin touts a “Mom Awakening.” In other news, we’re all going to die. Painfully. And deserve it. [Read more]

Levi Comes Crawling Back: For a while, Levi and his penis were the only truly interesting thing in the Palin family. Now he’s taking it all back to get in good with the new Palin Regime of Wasilla. [Read more]

Whatever LeBron James does, or doesn’t do in the next few days will be the most important thing or non-thing ever.
LeBron James and Tiger Woods share the same birthday – Dec. 30. [Read more]

Eating Anarchy: Competitive eater Joey “Jaws” Chestnut won the annual Coney Island “Stuff your Face With Hot Dogs” thing, his fourth victory in the event. Chaos later ensued, when legendary eater Takeru Kobayashi – who is starting his own eating league, I think – crashed the party and was later arrested. Dear Lord, we are stupid people.
Lady Gaga rules Facebook: Hey, someone has to, right? [Read more]

A sturdy attention span is not something our national media can claim. Which is why a story like the British Petroleum oil disaster is not for the, Look for more and more oil from the Gulf of Mexico and less and less media coverage. See more in my story at Alan Colmes’ Liberaland. [Read more]

The Plan to ignore the BP Oil Disaster until it went away hasn’t worked out.
Earnings Going Down: Supply and demand, baby. [Read more]

Larry King will retire from CNN. This may be the straw that breaks America’s back.
Oil-Soaked Beaches: With Hurricanes pushing the waters, oil is hitting more and more beaches, making this disaster a lot more real to many. [Read more]
"It's like a celebration of being who you are, of being yourself - no judging." [Read more]
By Simon Romero, New York Times, May 24/25, 2013
RIO DE JANEIRO — The attacks have stunned this city. In one, an assailant held a gun to the head of a 30-year-old woman while raping her in front of passengers on a bus as the driver proceeded down a main avenue. In another, a 14-year-old girl from a hillside slum was raped on one of Rio’s most famous stretches of beach.
In yet another case, men abducted and raped a working-class woman in a transit van as it wended through densely populated areas. The police failed to investigate, and a week later the same men raped a 21-year-old American student in the same van, pummeling her face and beating her male companion with a metal bar. [.....]...
Really good article at Daily Kos - precipitated by the Skagit River bridge collapse. I hope all the Daggers are having a good Memorial Day weekend - keep our fallen soldiers' sacrifice in your hearts.
By Karl Vick, Time Magazine, May 22, 2013
For the cleric who runs Iran, there’s no such thing as a pleasant surprise, especially on election day. Ayatullah Ali Khamenei was not pleased when a librarian named Mohammed Khatami was swept into the President’s office in 1997, leading a wave of reformists who challenged the status quo in which Khamenei, as the unelected Supreme Leader of the Revolution, was most heavily invested. In every election cycle since, the self-appointed portion of Iran’s government has done all it can to winnow the choices placed before Iranian voters. On Tuesday, that system tightened the screen once more, ...
By Eric Lipton & Ben Protess, New York Times, May 23/24, 2013
WASHINGTON — Bank lobbyists are not leaving it to lawmakers to draft legislation that softens financial regulations. Instead, the lobbyists are helping to write it themselves.
One bill that sailed through the House Financial Services Committee this month — over the objections of...
By Jane Perlez, New York Times, May 24-25, 2013
BEIJING — The Chinese leader, Xi Jinping, bluntly told a North Korean envoy Friday that his country should return to diplomatic talks designed to rid North Korea of its nuclear weapons, according to a state-run Chinese news agency.
“The denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula and lasting peace on the peninsula is what the people want and also the trend of the times,” Mr. Xi said in a meeting at the Great Hall of the People with Vice Marshal Choe Ryong-hae, a personal envoy of the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, the China News Service reported.
Vice Marshal Choe, who has been in Beijing for three days on a mission to...