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So we were enjoying some backstairs chatter with SFL about how boring the political news is right now, how the only topic on tap is Cory Booker showing up on Meet the Shill for purposes of objecting to the Obama campaign’s attacks on Bain Capital, how everyone suddenly notices that Cory has some Wall Street backers, and how Cory may be harboring some wee resentment that Barack scored the First Black Preznident trophy instead of him.

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On this, the fourth anniversary of our Descent Into Blogging Hell — actually it was yesterday, but we’re declaring it a bank holiday — we choose not to run yet another variation on our first-post Joyride image, but instead offer a montage of Every Joyride Known to Dukes, Except the Final Season, Which Isn’t Included Because the Videographer Loaned Out His DVD Set, But Don’t Let That Stop You.

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Title: “I Am A Pole (And So Can You!)”

Author: Stephen Colbert

Rank: 34

Blurb: “The sad thing is, I like it!” —Maurice Sendak

Reader Review Spectacular!

“This book should not be read to children. There is one page that illustrates a stripper humping a pole with only tassels on her nipples.”

“Then I got to the stripper pole, and the quite graphically drawn cartoon stripper right down to the tassels and heart tattoo on the ankle… I can’t imagine how many kids won’t get to read this book because of that page.”

“I was not prepared to discuss strippers with my 4-year-old daughter. This picture book is not for small children.”

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When Fresh Air ends, Terry Gross stops being polite, and starts getting real.

[via Silent Creative Partner]

[Breitbart]

“The man in charge of running Arizona’s elections has gone to the birthers. Secretary of State Ken Bennett now says he’s not convinced Barack Obama was really born in the United States and so he is threatening to keep the president off the ballot in November.” [TPM]

Each time we watch this — and we’ve watched it more than a few times — we find ourself focusing on a different region: Germany first, then Russia, then the Ottoman Empire, then Spain, and what’s that happening with the British Isles?

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