Line O’ the Day:
“It’s amazing how few people with existing jobs want to work under Lovie Smith in Chicago.
LOVIE: I want you to work with me.
PROSPECT: No thank you.
LOVIE: I challenge your refusal.” – Big Daddy Drew, Peter King Spies Himself a New Tebeau [Kissing Suzy Kolber]
Best of the Best:
- Research Shows that Two Gay Parents are Better than a Single Straight One [io9]
- Digital Maps Reveal Hidden Geographies of Sex and Religion [io9]
- Chipcam: Exactly What it Sounds Like [Gamma Squad]
- Killing of Cleric Prompts Outrage in Kabul and Apology from Coalition Forces [The Washington Post]
- Gitmo Closure Looks Increasingly Uncertain [MSNBC]
- In Cost Dispute, U.S. Halts Airlift of Haitian Quake Victims [New York Times]
- Researcher Who Sparked the Vaccine/Autism Scare “Acted Unethically” [Reason]
- Obama’s Report Card [Eric Margolis via LRC]
- Presidential Assassinations of U.S. Citizens [Glenn Greenwald via Salon]
The Remains:
- Travolta Hair and Make-up Jobs that Turned Action Movies into Comedies [Next Round]
- California Embraces Nukes at Last [io9]
- 25 Cat Fails [Holy Taco]
- Mortal Kombat Remake: Techno Fans Rejoice [Film Drunk]
- 25 Animals with Their Heads Stuck [Holy Taco]
- Undersherrif Finds $1 Million During a Traffic Stop [MSNBC]
- Al-Qaeda Claims Responsibility for Devastating Personal Attacks on Illinois Man [The Onion]
- Ex-Miami Beach Cop Adam Tavss Kills Two, Gets Caught with Drugs, and Earns Nice Payout [Miami New Times]
- Goldman Viewed as Favored by Regulators, Fed Says [Bloomberg]
- Tea Party Herds the Angry, Lands in Hot Water [Bloomberg]
- Media Reveals its Giant Penis Envy of Greg Oden [Deadspin]
- CBS Might Air Gay Super Bowl Add [Warming Glow]
- Lindsay Lohan and Mom to Play Trejo’s Topless Ho’s [Filmdrunk]
- 26 Wild Horses Die During Government Roundup in Nevada [Fox News]
- Fed or Fundamentals Behind Market Bounce? [Cliff Wachtel CPA via Seeking Alpha]
- A CRE Downturn Won’t Crash the Markets [Tom Brown via Seeking Alpha]
- The Twilight of Ben Bernanke’s Fed [Daryl Montgomery via Seeking Alpha]
- Secret Banking Cabal Emerges from AIG Shadows [Bloomberg]
- China’s Quest for a Shortcut to Greatness [Vitaliy Katsenelson via Seeking Alpha]
- Say Goodbye to Cheap Oil–IEA Gets Slammed over Oil Production Figures [Oilprice.com via Seeking Alpha]
- Bernanke May Have Harder Fight Defending the Fed After Confirmation [Bloomberg]
- KSK Celebrity Pickka…FACK YOU! [Big Daddy Drew via KSK]
- Smell Ya Later, Miramax: 1979-2010 [FilmDrunk]
- Three Words No NFLer Wants to Hear: Transgender Sodomy Lawsuit [Deadspin]
- Dear Bill Simmons, Please Stop Feeling My Pain for Me [Big Daddy Drew via Deadspin]
- We Need Diversity [Walter Williams via Jewish World Review]
- The New Old Way to Tote Your Beer [New York Times]
- Will Swedish Snus Give You Cancer? [Associated Content]
- Monetary Unwinding and Secondary Recession [Gary North via LRC]
- As Freezing Persons Recollect the Snow–First Chill–Then Stupor–then Letting Go [Outside.online]
- David Kelly Post-Mortem to Be Kept Secret for 70 Years as Doctors Accuse Lord Hutton of Concealing Vital Information [Mail Online]
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