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Ryan Barrett

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Will Michelle Obama Be The Next Member Oprah's Book Club?

  • For some inexplicable reason publishers seem to think Michelle Obama could write a bestseller. Perhaps it was that college thesis? The admirable physique? Just hard up for cash in a challenging credit environment? [Observer]
  • McCain: the "first real postmodernist candidate for the presidency." ? [NYT]
  • Why would you assume our passports were made in U.S. America? [Washington Times]
  • Sigh of relief for society! Jamie Lynn Spears is engaged. [US]
  • Boycotting the Olympics: actually a pretty powerful condemnation of repression, when you think about it. Oh, well. [Slate]
  • Some guy made up a story about how Diddy knew about Tupac's assassination plot and the LA Times totally bought it but the source turned out to be a "wildly impulsive, overweight white kid from Florida whose own father once described him in a letter to a federal judge as 'a disturbed young man who needed attention like a drug.'" [TheSmokingGun]
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