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Answer: Something you’ll never hear about on Cable News, mainstream news, in papers, or anywhere else…

Question: What is Congress’ approval rating?

As it turns out, the Democratic Congress’ approval ratings, well, they just flat out suck.

With Bush hanging in there at 33%, you’d think the irony of the Congress of Changetm having such a [...]

Nearly 1,000 copies of the Framingham State College student newspaper were stolen by students embarrassed by the journal’s front-page photo of them as bare-bellied FSC lacrosse fans attending a recent home game.

“I guess they were embarrassed about how they looked in the photo,” said college spokesman Peter Chisholm.

The color picture, which ran in the April [...]

Forget the fact that I stuck this sign to it with like 5 pushpins…

The irony of this is so palpable…

via Gothamist

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The right wing is so disappointed with the not-so-great Rudy Giuliani. They’ve pegged him as a social liberal and have made numerous other criticisms of his positions, usually with regards to abortion and gay marriage. Well, here’s an interesting tidbit about Fred Thompson, the savior who’s supposedly going to bring nice cozy conservative [...]

Michael Ayers, chair of the AACS business group says that he hopes the public will respect his anti-copying mechanism…

“Some people clearly think it’s a First Amendment issue. There is no intent from us to interfere with people’s right to discuss copy protection. We respect free speech.

“They can discuss the pros and cons. We know some [...]

Howard Dean who, during the last Presidential election when he made a complete ass of himself (not to mention proved that being a great “internet candidate” doesn’t mean shit) criticized the Bush administration for their lack of transparency and accountability (all the time trying like hell to keep his records secret).

Well, as if to prove [...]

New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine wasn’t wearing a seat belt when he was badly injured in a highway crash – violating a law that the Garden State spends hundreds of thousands of dollars a year to promote.

Corzine’s spokesman admitted yesterday that the former Goldman Sachs boss – who doesn’t particularly like to buckle up – [...]

PHILADELPHIA One person was injured after gunfire erupted in West Philadelphia during a vigil for a young murder victim Tuesday evening.

Approximately 150 people gathered on Market Street between 60th and 61st Streets to remember 19-year-old Terrence Walker who was shot and killed Easter Sunday.

As Walker’s family spoke, police said gunshots were fired into the large [...]

On April 2, I posted about how some folks over in the UK had formed stem cells into heart tissue to form valves to replace defective ones. Now, also out of the UK, we find that another advancement has been made, this time in the treatment of diabetes:

Diabetics using stem-cell therapy have been able [...]

In an obvious conflict of interest, we find that the author of the Alabama bill recommending opposition to the merger of XM and Sirius was written by a legislator who happens to own a local radio station!

The Alabama House bill was introduced by Mike Hubbard, the Republican Minority Leader who owns AM radio stations not [...]

So since Vista launched, all we’ve heard from the fanboys is how Apple f’ed up and how Apple didn’t have iTunes and the iPod ready and Apple had Vista for months before launch and should’ve done better. It was an Apple-bashing fiesta from minute one! I have to admit my own puzzlement at [...]

That’s right folks. Muslim women, tired of the misconception that Islam is oppressive to women are holding a meeting of female empowerment. The idea is to show that women do play an active role in Islam and they’re even rewriting some of the Koran to take away the blanket justification religious Muslim men [...]

With Mike Nifong gone, there’s now an actual investigation happening, and look what we find out?

The woman who accused three members of the Duke University men’s lacrosse team of sexual assault is not being forthcoming with special prosecutors, law enforcement sources close to the case tell ABC News.

The accuser has met at least twice with [...]

Bill Gates is arguing that if immigration curbs are put in place, it’ll hurt competition in the market.

Bill Gates, the chairman of Micro≠soft, on Wednesday warned that restrictions on the number of skilled workers allowed to enter the US put the country’s competitiveness at risk.

The comments marked the latest attack on restrictive US immigration policies [...]

This is classic. The original clip that Joe Rogan posted on YouTube was DMCA’d off the site, so, like good little soldiers, people took hundreds of copies and put it up on YouTube. The oddest part, of course, is that Mencia made a copyright claim to a video that Rogan produced. Speaks [...]

From Fark and presented without comment:

A Bartow County couple will go before a magistrate judge today to see if they will be arrested for allegedly stalking a Kennesaw police officer by installing cameras to track neighborhood speeders.

Lee and Teresa Sipple spent $1,200 mounting three video cameras and a radar speed unit outside their home, which [...]

FRENCH intelligence has produced a dossier alleging that al-Qaeda plans an attack on the country during forthcoming presidential elections.

The Arabic-language al-Hayat daily newspaper has reported there were “several indications of a plot to copy the Spanish scenario in France”, a reference to the explosions that rocked Madrid in March 2004.

The London-based daily quoted mainly “messages [...]

No, that’s not a typo. Violet Blue, the pornblogger who hates being called a pornblogger despite an entry a few week ago that started with an entry that basically said she had to step over a pile of dildos from the night before when she got out of bed (real class act that pseudonym [...]

Celebrity sightings may have been scarce, but the annual gathering of the world’s most powerful people in Davos still managed to wrap its air of serious debate in a sheen of glamour.

For all the grave talk about the dangers of climate change at the four-day meeting of corporate and political leaders, petrol-guzzling limousines and [...]

I saw a note in the Twit.tv forums that said that Mozilla and Firefox weren’t in Firefox’s built-in spellchecker.

Know what?

They’re right.

Check it out:

I imagine in the end it was more out of respect for the English language than anything else (after all neither of them are proper English words anyway) but it’s still pretty funny [...]