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Welcome back kids! How was el
fin de semana? Because it sure sucked for a lot of our overseas amigos! A devastating earthquake on the scale of an earthquake that killed a quarter million people in 1976 just rocked China's Sichuan province; Burma's totalitarian military junta decided to grant itself unlimited totalitarian power and
all the donated rice; no one can really protest the junta since they are mostly all
dead and/or starving to death anyway; hopefully Jenna Bush
did the sensitive thing and refrained from throwing rice at her wedding; two John McCain advisers did the sensitive thing and stepped down when it turned out they'd actually taken three hundred grand from the junta for PR services.
Bob Barr and
Ron Paul both launched separate attempts to do what voters are
already doing anyway and sink McCain's campaign; Michelle Obama is
nixin Hillary as a running mate (according to Bob Novak?!) and speaking of Nixon, there's a new book on him and the white voters who elected him and we read all about it sorta. All that and a Vito Fossella primer ATJ.
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Fifty thousand people are dead or close to it in Burma, and Barack Obama can state unequivocally that he
does not drink designer beer. Seventy five percent of American adults will at some point
be impoverished. The average American car owner really
must save $30 this summer.
Chris Hitchens believes Barack Obama may be pussy-whipped. Ellen Page believes Burmese dictator Than Shwe is
a modern Hitler. And when tomorrow comes, Terry McAuliffe believes everyone will be saying that Hillary Clinton did better than they thought she was going to do in both the North Carolina and Indiana primaries tonight. Now
there's a statement
Glamocracy Megan and I can get behind! After the jump, an unusually hip-hop laden edition of Crappy Hour.
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animal magnetisms
Still enraged over presidential candidate Mike Huckabee's evil, Eagle Scout award-winning
dog-murderer of a son? Or the news that Blackwater assholes
killed one of the dogs living at the
NY Times' Baghdad bureau? Here's a little something to remember: A whole lotta people actually want to
help animals. To begin, there is finally a
Merck Manual for animals on the market with which pet owners can learn about everything from communicable diseases (humans to animals) to how to diagnose a gerbil with depression. And as for truly troubled animals who need more than just a manual, there are, thankfully, many other people are getting their paws, er, hands wet to make a better world a better place:
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Jezebel
Good Intentions
"I wrote my whole thesis on Burma," Kim Kardashian claims in this public service announcement about the country's political plight. "It just makes me think: A few months ago I had no idea about the problems of Burma... and now I am simply devastated," Kim writes. Watch as she tries on clothes and talks about Myanmar elections at the same time! [OfficialKimKardashian.com]
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