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Olympic Moments You Missed

. If you have some kind of weird, humilating fantasy that you would have to represent your country at Beijing.

The video quality is admittedly terrible, but it's still funny.

For narish goyim like me, an English-Yiddish dictionary. Pass me the nashvarg, bube.

AFI, you gotta be kidding me.

Where the hell is Close Encounters of the Third Kind?

From Boing Boing TV. David Byrne: Playing the Building.

These people so belong in New York City.

Obama victory raises global reputation of US (which had nowhere to go but up).

Photo: http://obama.senate.gov/photo/001122.html.

As opposed to merely lovely.

Not for those with politically correct sensibilities.

Just in time for summer: a blog widget to aid the diagnosis of melanoma.

In what's fast becoming a vanity campaign, Hilliary Clinton's fight for the Democratic nomination suffered a new blow this afternoon, with John Edwards endorsing Barak Obama. But an op-ed piece in Monday's US News & World Report says that Edwards has become irrelevant by waiting too long to act.

I got carsick on my couch last night watching CNN's John King mess around forever with that touch-screen map of Indiana. There are really only so many times that anyone should have to watch Lake County being enlarged and shrunk.

The top 5 strangest things Paula Abdul has said or done while an "Idol" judge, according to the MTV News blog.