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21 Nov 2009 21:08

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Chatter: Twitter is nearly as lively as the senate tonight on health care

kperukel (Kimberley Pérukel): RT @HuffPolitics: Final House vote to pass Senate health care bill: 219 Y - 210 N -- zero Republicans voted for bill http://bit.ly/XvsI7 Tweet Source

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21 Nov 2009 21:02

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U.S.: No Republicans, no problem: The Senate Dems get health care going

  • It’s offi­cial, kids. The Democ­rats have taken weeks of attempt­ing to get this shiznit on the Sen­ate floor and actu­ally got­ten it on the freak­ing Sen­ate floor. And they did it with­out a sin­gle Repub­li­can. Who knows if they’ll get any fur­ther with it, but it’s a great first step. source
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21 Nov 2009 20:04

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Chatter: Like “Lost,” Glenn Beck is gonna reveal his big plan next year

  • On August 28, 2010, I ask you, your fam­ily and neigh­bors to join me at the feet of Abra­ham Lin­coln on the National Mall for the unveil­ing of The Plan and the birth­day of a new national move­ment to restore our great country.
  • Glenn Beck • Describ­ing our great national night­mare in detail. That’s right, boys – he’s gonna get his boys together to reveal his grand plan – how to (#^&(!&@ over the Democ­rats once and for freak­ing all. Or how he plans to get a big­ger chalk­board. Or some­thing. Note to all: Unless you’re one of them, avoid the National Mall on August 28, 2010. source
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21 Nov 2009 18:47

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Music: Our Saturday Mixtape looks back at rock history’s greatest badasses

  • 1. Lou Reed is a badass because he man­aged to make a song like “Pale Blue Eyes” – an exer­cise in emo­tional nudity which few artists of his stature are will­ing to try – seem brave, not pan­sy­ish. It worked to strong effect in this year’s “Adven­ture­land,” by the way.
  • 2. Marc Bolan is a badass because he lived fast, died young, and still man­aged to have a career full of badass moves. From his start as an off-kilter folkie (Tyran­nosaurus Rex) to his peak as a glam god (T. Rex) who directly inspired the pre­vi­ous badass, his badass­ness set a pretty high bar.
  • 3. Paul West­er­berg is a badass because he never gave into the main­stream when he was cre­at­ing his great­est work. “Bas­tards of Young” is per­haps The Replace­ments’ catchi­est tune, but instead of actively try­ing to push it on MTV, they made this video to go with it. That’s badass.
  • 4. Josh Homme is a badass because he released this song as a sin­gle. And then his band, Queens of the Stone Age, played it at a drug rehab cen­ter last year. It really is the feel-good hit of the sum­mer. Or any year, really.
  • 5. James Mur­phy is a badass because he knows how to get down even though he’s get­ting old. Really, we could’ve picked any song Mur­phy did as LCD Soundsys­tem over the last five years and nailed it as evi­dence. But “Daft Punk is Play­ing at My House” works as both a sneer­ing homage to Daft Punk and a homage to being a badass. So it wins. source
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21 Nov 2009 16:40

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Chatter: STLToday’s Kurt Greenbaum: First class bad word we can’t repeat here.

  • First rule of jour­nal­ism: Don’t make your­self part of the story. Guess which rule the St. Louis Post-Dispatch’s social media edi­tor broke? As the so-called inter­net hate machine closes in on a guy who cost another guy his job for a pretty petty rea­son, we think there are a few things to learn from the whole ordeal.
  • one Don't make yourself part of the story. The second Greenbaum decided to look up a reader's IP address and took matters into his own hands, the story stopped being about the comment and started being about the admitted narc. Bad move, buddy.
  • two Don't violate your readers' trust. People go to your site with the belief that they won't get screwed over. In fact, the St. Louis Post Dispatch's own privacy policy promises this. When you decide to be the morality police, you violate a reader's trust.
  • three Expect a swift, painful response. Not long after our boy Kurt did this, he felt retribution from all corners of the interweb, including Reddit and Digg. And honestly, he should lose his job. He turned a minor issue into a policy-breaking debacle. source
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21 Nov 2009 15:14

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Culture: Ricky Hollywood, er Levi Johnston doesn’t go fully nude for Playgirl

Johnston’s career path from political joke to gay status symbol is now complete, based on these not-totally-nude photos. source
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21 Nov 2009 15:00

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Chatter: Senate update: The Democrats have 60 votes for health care!

  • Although I don’t agree with every­thing in this bill, I have con­cluded that I believe it is more impor­tant that we begin this debate to improve our nation’s health care sys­tem for all Amer­i­cans rather than just sim­ply drop the issue and walk away.
  • Arkansas Sen. Blanche Lin­coln • On her rea­son for agree­ing to allow the Sen­ate bill to go to dis­cus­sion. Her move gives the Democ­rats 60 votes. Reminder: This is only a vote to dis­cuss health care. None of the mod­er­ate Democ­rats have agreed to a final vote, just more dis­cus­sion. source
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21 Nov 2009 14:26

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Tech: Will you be able to find a Barnes & Noble Nook for the holidays?

  • NO so put that in your pipe and smoke it, reading fans source
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21 Nov 2009 14:14

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Music: Jason Segel’s singing for the LAAA-DIES, complete with digits.

Hey baby, want to call me? Judd Apa­tow acolyte and “I Love You, Man” star Jason Segel has the right idea. At a Swell Sea­son (i.e. actors from “Once”) show last week, Segel dropped his num­ber to ladies in the mid­dle of a song. Julius has been hav­ing trou­ble with the ladies lately, so he might try it, too. source
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21 Nov 2009 13:51

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U.S.: Daily Poll: California schools and their sucktastic budget crisis


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