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A charismatic guru, sweaty athletic bodies, suggestive poses, heavy breathing, increased blood flow, all while wearing your skivvies. Yup

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Those advocating making yoga a competitive Olympic sport cant be happy about the latest scandal.

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After the corrupt Nixon administration, Carter seemed like a good idea, but after four years of Carter, Reagan was looking pretty good and after eight years of George W. Bush I think almost anyone would have looked good,  so maybe you had to have lived through twenty four years of Saddam Hussein to understand why Maliki looks good to Iraqis. I can’t figure it out.

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Jean Dujardin from “The Artist” and Meryl Streep from “The Iron Lady”
“The Artist” also won for Best Picture, Direction, Costume Design and Score

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He who shall not be Googled vows to “fight fire with fire” (and brimstone) against Romney.

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I haven’t seen many of this years nominees, but I’ll watch.

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Recent studies have found that the death penalty is not a deterrent to homicide. I know we can argue the merits of that argument but in the mean time, many states still sentence murderers to death. I point this out to highlight the dichotomy between how we punish individuals compared to big corporations. The SEC believes having fraudulent Wall Street firms promise not to violate a law that they already promised not to break, without admitting guilt, to be a deterrent. When you stop laughing read this

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Yes, Amalia de Fortabat was known in Argentina as “The Cement Lady” but so much more.
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Super PACs raised more money last month than the candidates they support, with the lions share coming from just a few individual mega donors and corporations.  Is this what the Supreme Court had in mind when they ruled on Citizens United vs. Federal Elections Commission?

Justice Stevens wrote in his decent “A democracy cannot function effectively when its constituent members believe laws are being bought and sold.”

I believe Justice Stevens got it right on this one.

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If I were to invent someone to root for following the contract dispute that shortened the NBA season, I couldn’t have imagined  a better storyline to help fans forget the fracas between the fat-cat owners and spoiled players than Lin. In only his second year in the league, Lin hardly had a dog in that fight.  In fact, Lin has little to do with any preconceived notions about the NBA or it’s players. The first NBA player of Taiwanese descent, he could never be accused of being a coddled athlete. Lin wasn’t offered Continue Reading

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When AJ was on, his stuff was nasty and unhittable, but game to game , inning to inning or batter to batter you just never knew. I wish him well in Pittsburgh.

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New York Times Pulitzer Prize-winning, foreign correspondent Anthony Shadid died Thursday of an asthma attack while on assignment in Syria. A consummate journalist and fluent in Arabic, Shadid often put himself in harms way to get a story. I was riveted last March reading his first hand account of being held captive for six days by forces loyal to Qaddafi.

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Hall of fame catcher and all around nice guy Gary Carter lost his battle with brain cancer. He was 57.

The 11 time All-Star played 11 years with the Montreal Expos, but will be remembered here for helping the 86 Mets win the World Series.

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The media rolled into the downtrodden, grieving city of Newark, New Jersey to cover the tragic story of Whitney Houston’s funeral with the finesse of a thousand clowns, building platforms, buying properties and renting rooftops. Not to cover the good works that Whitney did there but to gain a view of the bereaved celebs expected to attend.

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If James Carville were advising the Republicans, he’d probably be chanting the mantra he made famous. Not to keep his candidate (who had a penchant for freestyling) on message, but to save his candidate from a contrived, divisive brand of politics designed to win elections in the seventies.

Not even Mr. Conservative, Barry Goldwater could win a primary in today’s Republican party.

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Anybody-but-Romney du jour… not exactly head over heals is it?

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Six Grammy awards including song of the year, Rolling in the Deep.

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When investment banks calculated how to monetize mortgages, they meddled with something beyond money, they meddled with where we live, breath, break bread and raise our children. Yesterday  our attorney general slapped their wrist.

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Many conservatives believe that charities and not tax dollars should provide health care for our poor. But hold on, conservatives also want to deny charitable funds for said poor? WTF

Watch and listen to the frank words of Linda.

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Multi-layered, super absorbent, cleans up nice. We buy our no frills paper towels at Costco. They do the job.

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Eli Manning MVP.

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Go Giants

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On Death, Without Exaggeration

It can’t take a joke,
find a star, make a bridge.
It knows nothing about weaving, mining, farming,
building ships, or baking cakes.

In our planning for tomorrow,
it has the final word,
which is always beside the point.

It can’t even get the things done
that are part of its trade:
dig a grave,
make a coffin,
clean up after itself.

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The smooth voiced, groundbreaking host that put the soul in “Soul Train” and brought funk and soul into the living rooms of millions of Americans, including suburban white kids like me, apparently ended his own life. RIP Mr. Cornelius

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It’s looking like Obama vs. Romney