Brooklyn Bridge Blues
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The blue and green spirals are actually the same color.

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A series of pictures made by photographing the same spot several times, then digitally erasing or adding people from other pictures to create composites based on themes. By Peter Funch

Seriously, how stupid does a high profile politician with presidential aspirations have to be to disappear for a week in Argentina with his mistress? Perhaps he had already given up those hopes.

I give a hearty guffaw to those who defended Sanford prior to today with sentiments like, "Can't a man take a vacation without being picked apart by the liberal media?" HA! I'm looking forward to Stewart and Colbert's followups on last night's coverage of the missing governor.

It's been a bad week for the GOP. I'm sure God's prayer inbox will be overflowing tonight.

On Saturday, Pat Buchanan hosted a conference to discuss how Republicans can regain a majority in America. During one discussion, panelists suggested supporting English-only initiatives as a prime way of attracting “working class white Democrats.” The discussion ridiculed Judge Sotomayor for the fact that she studied children’s classics to improve her grammar while attending college. The panelists also suggested that, without English as the official language, President Obama would force Americans to speak Spanish.
One salient feature of the event was the banner hanging over the English-only advocates. The word conference was spelled “Conferenece.”
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Chances are you do a bit of reading via your web browser. If so you might appreciate Readability, a neat little javascript thingy for beautifying long text. It seems to work pretty well on news sites and the like, but it doesn't display Next Page links. Combine single-page print views with Readability, and it's the shit.

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I found this in a back issue of MetroPulse ...

Once you horse the horn off, sell it somewhere shady. Like China.

CNN anchor and Beijing correspondent John Vause was filming in Tiananmen Square, Beijing when he suddenly encountered a man holding an umbrella who won't step away from his cameraman's lens.

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