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news roundup

Saddam Hussein Made Up That WMD Thing To Deter Invaders

  • So it turns out Saddam Hussein lied about having WMD so the rest of the Axis of Evil would leave him alone. [CBS News]
  • How much would you bet even he couldn't have kept that lie up 935 times! [Wash Post
  • Isn't it funny how yesterday's enemies are today's...[Reuters]
  • The New York Times to endorse Hillary Clinton? Identity politics much, Gray Lady??? [Radar]
  • George Soros says it's the worst economic crisis in 60 years. Because financial instruments masterminded by crafty hedgies like himself just got too hard for central bankers and bureaucrats to understand. And speaking of hard to understand... [Financial Times]
  • But anyway, everyone else smarter than you agrees. [NY Times]
  • "Tax cuts in general perpetuate the excessive consumption that has marked the American economy." [NY Times]
  • Suck it, Stiglitz, I want my six hundred bucks. [WSJ]
  • Bill Gates is over capitalism. Convenient. [WSJ]
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Editor's Note: Three of the Jezebels — Moe, Tracie & Jennifer — are still gone, presumably still listening to a certain audaciously-hopeful Democratic presidential candidate try to hold forth on important issues while Tyra Banks quizzes him on his opinion of her hair weave, the best fall fashions, and which BBQ joints in Chicago have the best baby-back ribs. Dodai is gone because she has to get a bridesmaid dress altered, then get to bed (6am plane flight, Tampa, etc.). I'm going to a baseball game. All this is a way of saying: We're stopping a little earlier today, which, in my mind at least, will forever be known as the day that Barack Obama, the National League East and a bridesmaid dress broke the blog.

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Fergie's Bodily Functions Strike Again

  • Poor Fergie reportedly barfed all over herself while at the Minnesota State Fair. Maybe it was all the fried food on a stick? [Dlisted]
  • Speaking of Minnesota: Republican Senator Larry Craig got busted by the police for "lewd behavior" in the gentleman's room of a Minnesota airport. Hasn't the Land Of 10,000 Lakes been through enough?! [Crooks and Liars]
  • Michael Vick is going to jail and rightly so. But lets also remember that we live in a country where the man behind the Katrina debacle, Michael Chertoff, may be getting a promotion. [BBC]
  • President Bush says that poor little Alberto Gonzalez endured "unfair treatment" during his tenure as Attorney General. [CNN]
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It's Official: Being A Woman Kinda Sucks (Except For The Love Of Kitties)

Every once in a while it becomes clear that in a lot of ways, being a woman is an unbelievably raw deal. As if it's not enough that once a month blood comes burbling out of our vaginas, as several articles in the news today attest, each stage of our lives tends to be accompanied by the looming threat of some kind of trauma. In your teens, you're plagued by acne, which causes boys not like you, which subsequently causes the kind of angst that leaves lasting scars, "mentally more so that physically," a dermatologist tells the Wisconsin Post-Crescent. You know what else leaves scars? When you're fondled by a filthy old man in dance class. More »

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Today God's Creatures Opened Up A Can Of Whup-Ass

In the criminal justice system, sexually-based offenses committed by animals are considered especially heinous. "I'd say it's probably been playing, or it may be even a sexual sort of thing," Queensland police Detective Senior Constable Craig Gregory told the Associated Press earlier today (or yesterday or maybe even tomorrow, because Australia is a day behind or forward, we can never remember which) when they discovered the body of a woman who had apparently been suffocated by a young camel she was keeping as a pet. In fact, the "guilty" plea entered by dog-abusing Atlantic Falcons quarterback Michael Vick today seems to have touched off a worldwide animal revenge spree, for today, no human was safe! First, there was the news that men who hunt deer are at higher risk for heart attack. (Karma's a bitch!) More »

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Bush Daughter To Wed, Possibly Reproduce; Deluge Drowns Lone Star State

This afternoon, from the Bush compound in Crawford, Texas, came the news that First daughter Jenna Bush and her boyfriend of two years, Karl Rove minion and Republispawn Henry Hager, are engaged and immediately, an angry rain threatened to overcome the entire state of Texas. Not that those incidents were related! Because unlike some people, we don't really believe there's guy in the sky who controls the weather. (Speaking of splashes, an over-the-top wedding does not a happy marriage make!) Anyway, if they manage to weather the storm, here's the shit Jenna and Henry can look forward to as they begin their life together:
  • It's not looking too good for Republican folks in Washington. [Washington Post]
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Broadway Momentarily Un-Gay: Clay Aiken Musical Cancelled

Moe is being interrogated by El Al as I type this, which means that her stock market/foreign policy-illuminating "Evening Purge" will be on hiatus until she returns from The Homeland next week. (My homeland, she keeps telling me. Not hers. Whatevs.) And so, back by not popular demand, my Bush-hating, animal-loving "End of Days"! Anyway, enjoy, peeps!
  • A musical about the life and times of Clay Aiken and his obsessive fans is no longer bound for Broadway. [TMZ]
  • Next time someone tells you you're rude for yawning at them, correct them and explain that you're actually empathizing. [News.com.au]
  • Raise the legal drinking age in England? Fuck no! [BBC]
  • New Jersey Buddhists have released animals bought in NYC's Chinatown into the wilds of New Jersey, hoping they reach their "karmic potential." Run, Thumper, run! [MSNBC]
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evening purge

Go And See The Simpsons Movie Already, Guys!

Now that we have all these people working for Jezebel who actually wake up on time to do their posts the end-of-day roundup of shit we didn't get to during the work day falls upon me. Think of it as a daily purge. I suggest you stay around at work waiting for it because you will be the most informed person at happy hour and that's a good way of making up for being the most drunk. So without further ado, good evening. The Dow, Nasdaq and S&P 500 are all starting to recover from the horrible blow that was the iPhone's merely preposterous and not universe-altering sales, and this and this were all I found looking for smutty ticker symbols to celebrate the twin blessings of a healthy market and National Orgasm week. Okay, so!
  • I woke up late.
  • Now I know how I will go about never waking up again. [Telegraph]
  • Some grooms apparently have vaginas. [Daily Mirror]
  • Which explains why post-partum depression is so very very tough on them. [ABC News]
  • Science may have found a way to solve Lindsay Lohan. Or maybe just all those coke-addicted mice out there. [Daily Mail]
  • A rule of thumb for tipping your sperm child: it should be at least as much as the spank bank paid you for the DNA. [NYT]
  • This is going to totally shock Lula Mae Broadway but I never saw any of Ingmar Bergman's films [Wash Post]
  • And I won't see anything until after I see the Simpsons movie everyone else saw while I was attending to my drinking problem. [WSJ]
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The Sad, Sorry, Dog Days Of Summer

  • Jake, one of the many specially-trained canines involved in the rescue of victims of both 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina, has died of cancer, possibly as a result of toxins inhaled while working at Ground Zero. Wonder if Rudy Giuliani or Christine Todd Whitman will be sending condolence cards? [MSNBC]
  • Astronauts: Turning up for work drunk — just like us! [CNN]
  • Italian women in jail: Also clothing designers! [The West]
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Bunnies & Kitties & Squid, Oh My

  • Nursing-home kitty Oscar the Cat (aka 'The Grim Reaper' of felines) is predicting nursing-home deaths at a facility in Rhode Island with almost 100% accuracy. [Breitbart]
  • We find it hard to feel the same empathy we had for the whales and the dolphins for the giant squid invading California with impunity. [USA Today]
  • Bunny rabbits invading Pennsylvania, however? Adorable. [Breitbart]
  • No more smoking in Disney movies aimed at families! And smoking discouraged in Miramax and Touchstone (Disney subsidiary production houses) films aimed at adults! Meanwhile, half of your Jezebels remain proud smokers. [BBC]
  • Joni Mitchell + Starbucks = Our hearts being sad. [E!]
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Eddie Murphy Is Loyal -- 'Til You Have His Baby

  • Eddie Murphy is on crack if he thinks a little bling is enough to convince the world that he treats his girlfriends well. Um, remember that you fathered and denied, Eddie? [People.com]
  • Oh come on people: There are enough real bombs in this world. Don't plant fake ones. [BBC]
  • Memo to President Bush: We already know that your reasons for attacking Iraq were bullshit. So don't feed us any of your retroactive theories now. [CNN]
  • Memo to Tony Blair: You lost your right to pontificate on the situation in the Middle East, too. [NYT]
  • Does this guy have a t-shirt that says, "I Served In Iraq And All I Got Was This Lousy Bionic Hand"? [CNN]
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Eva Mendes Doesn't Have To Hate Herself 'Cause She Knows She's Hot

  • Aw! Eva Mendes says it's easy to get all "critical" of yourself when you're on the red carpet but that she doesn't let herself "fall into that" — but that's she also "thankful" for her "nice physique"! Pretty sad if this counts as having positive body image nowadays. [People]
  • In poor England it's all water, water everywhere not not a drop to drink. [BBC]
  • Bush is cancer-free, meaning that now Cheney has to cut short his vacation and return to running the country. [CNN]
  • Oh fuck: Botulism. [CNN]
  • It's official: Drew Carey's the new host of The Price Is Right. The showcase showdown is dead to us. [11 Alive News]
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Things That May Or May Not Surprise You: We Don't Like Bush, We Do Like Harry Potter

  • Harry Potter! Yup, we pre-ordered our copy of the last-ever Harry Potter book. And we get to pick it up at 12:01 am tonight. We're super nervous about what's going to happen, too. We think that Snape isn't evil though. But we have a sneaking suspicion Harry is going to die. And we will be reading it all weekend to find out. No judgments, please.
  • So, President Bush has banned torture. Wow took him long enough, huh? Also, we have about as much faith in this executive order as, oh, Paris saying she's never done drugs. [BBC]
  • Bush is also getting a colonoscopy tomorrow. We just hope that Cheney doesn't go and revoke that executive order during that one hour when he's the acting president while Bush has a lighted tube shoved up his ass. [MSNBC]
  • And if either Bush or Cheney cared at all about justice, they would do something to free Genarlow Wilson. [CNN]
  • Wait, what?! David Beckham isn't even sure when he's going to feel up to playing soccer? Make it stop. Please. [E!]
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Bill Clinton: Come Write With Us

  • Bill Clinton has begun blogging! Just like us! We wonder if he'll do hungover Friday tomorrow too! [Clinton Foundation]
  • We've always really liked Craig Ferguson. Now we have to like him less: He's dating Sharon Stone. Anna's heart just broke. [The Daily Blabber]
  • A judge has dismissed Valerie Plame's lawsuit against the White House in regards to leaking her identity while working as an undercover operative for the CIA. [MSNBC]
  • Go with us on this: Dinosaurs are sorta like Lindsay Lohan. A slow ascent to power in which they knocked out their other, similar, competitors. And then overnight (literally) crashed and burned. [BBC]
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Oprah Pushing The Finding-A-Moral Agenda A Little Too Hard

  • Oprah's golden retriever Gracie died in May after an unfortunate choking incident and still Oprah is talking about it, only now she's putting that Oprah-branded spin on it saying that Gracie's death was really a hidden message that she needed to slow down and take more time to appreciate her own life. Seriously, we don't even have a response to this. [USA Today]
  • Oh yes: That's what's missing in the EU — machismo! [BBC]
  • Memo to People magazine: Please do not ever ever put that Jenny McCarthy eats nachos as an item under the tag "breaking news". Ever. [People.com]
  • Not shocking: Republicans don't want to pull out (from Iraq). But they don't want to give a Plan B either. Draw your own conclusions from this heavy-handed metaphor. [CNN]
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We Wish We'd Bought A 'Free Winona' T-Shirt Way Back When

  • Winona Ryder is speaking out now about her shoplifting. Honestly? No one gives a shit. [People]
  • In the UK, one in four 18-to-25-year olds cannot answer the following question: What is one eighth of 32? [BBC]
  • Al-Qaeda said to be "stepping-up" its presence in the U.S. Please God, no one tell Elisabeth Hasselbeck. The thought of her ranting and raving about this is scarier than the threat of a terrorist act itself. [BBC]
  • Memo to Hillary: The woman who is to be India's first female president - not so popular. [NYT]
  • Harry Potter the book? Too long. Harry Potter the movie? Too heavy-handed. But Harry Potter the postage stamp? Now we're talking! [USA Today]
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Simpsons Graffiti On Pagan Fields: Cute, But Where's Homer's Cock?

  • We were feeling kinda blue today. Then we saw this. [Boing Boing]
  • Now that Isaiah Washington has a new job maybe he'll stop his pointless bitching. The former Grey's Anatomy cast member been cast in 5 episodes of the upcoming TV show based on The Bionic Woman. [E!]
  • In the UK curry laced with ecstasy = attempted murder. Over here curry laced with ecstasy sounds kind of like a fun Friday night! [BBC]
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Britney As Whitney? God Help Us.

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