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06 Dec 2009 20:17

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Culture: Who didn’t Tiger Woods have an affair with, anyway?

  • The latest to come forward: A Perkins waitress. Listen, there’s so many of these reported affairs now that we’re going to guess that some of them aren’t true. Although this one has a better chance than some of the others. Mindy Lawton, a waitress at an Orlando Perkins where Woods was known to get an egg-white omelet with broccoli, claims that she had a year-long relation­ship with the super-celeb. We’ll say it again, man. You could’ve saved yourself so much trouble had you come clean immedi­ately. Now it’s just a sad, unbear­ably depress­ing joke. source
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29 Nov 2009 09:55

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U.S., World: Report: The Bush administration let Osama Bin Laden get away

  • He was within grasp in 2001, but reinforce­ments weren’t sent. First off, let’s state the obvious: We’d still have terror­ism troubles if Bin Laden were captured – though they might be less focused. However, a Senate report says that the U.S. was close to catch­ing him in Afghanistan, only to drop the ball by leaning on air strikes instead of putting people on the ground. Donald Rumsfeld is specif­i­cally blamed for his lack of action. source
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28 Nov 2009 09:34

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Culture: Was the Tiger Woods crash a domestic violence incident against Tiger?

  • earlier One of our regular commenters suggested that the Tiger Woods incident screamed “scorned woman beating incident.”
  • now The very report that TMZ came out with late last night suggests this exact scenario. Is Elin Norde­gren angry? source
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27 Nov 2009 16:12

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Chatter: Is the Tiger Woods story an example of Twitter’s real-time superiority?

  • That appar­ently took 45 minutes to get up. They could have called anyone on Twitter 30 minutes ago to get those details from what officials were saying based on what they had already read thanks to Twitter and Google.
  • TechCrunch colum­nist MG Siegler • Comment­ing on the break­ing nature of the Tiger Woods crash. @BreakingNews had it 45 minutes before any mainstream news source. When CNN had it, they had zero infor­ma­tion. This is because they needed to source it, whereas @BreakingNews didn’t. Another inter­est­ing note from the story – BNO News, which currently runs @BreakingNews, will let MSNBC run the feed start­ing next month. Expect it to start sucking at that point. source
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30 Oct 2009 20:52

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Biz: Despite many chances, Bernie Madoff surprised he wasn’t caught sooner

  • It was a nightmare for me. I wish they caught me six years ago, eight years ago.
  • Bernard Madoff • Speaking during a June prison interview with investigators about the Securities and Exchange Commission’s constant probing of his ponzi scheme. You start to feel sympathetic until you realize that this jerk could’ve easily said something six or eight years ago and prevented some of the $21 billion in investor losses. So Bernie gets no sympathy. • source
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26 Oct 2009 13:29

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Biz: Verizon gets hit – hard – by lowered corporate spending

  • 30% decline in The Network’s 3Q profits; ouch source
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04 Oct 2009 10:34

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Culture: TMZ said Maya Angelou was in the hospital. They were wrong. Ha!

  • They’re usually right about these sorts of things. From scooping every other mainstream media outlet by hours on Michael Jackson’s death to getting the photo of the Rihanna after the attack by Chris Brown, they usually nail the facts. But not this time. Word is that Angelou, who they said was rushed to an L.A. hospital, wasn’t even in L.A. at the time. Good job, goobers. source
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25 Aug 2009 20:46

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Biz, U.S.: Congressional Budget Office: That stimulus is helping – at a cost

  • the good The Congressional Budget Office, which has no ties to the White House, says that the economy will recover in late 2009, which they say is “largely the result of fiscal stimulus.”
  • the bad Despite that positive development, this negative development should get conservatives in a tizzy. The deficit will reach a record $1.6 trillion. The old belt doesn’t fit anymore. source
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25 Aug 2009 11:22

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Culture: Legal analyst: Expect charges against Dr. Conrad Murray soon

  • I have no doubt he’s going to be indicted … Just the amount of work tells us that.
  • Defense attorney Roy Black • Analyzing the likelihood that Dr. Conrad Murray will be indicted in the Michael Jackson case. Investigators have spent months gathering evidence against him – search warrants, interviews, so on and so forth. And Fox News didn’t even have to announce this analysis, which aired on “Good Morning America,” a week early! • source
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25 Aug 2009 10:00

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U.S.: Slow morning? Read this CIA report on interrogation abuses

Ignore your boss. Ignore your job. Get a cup of Joe and read through a heavily-redacted report. Sounds like our kind of morning. source
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