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Being an Alien Spy, we skipped the Super Bowl as usual, in favor of administering anal probes to Republican presidential candidates. (Our report to our superiors indicates that this method is losing its effectiveness, seeing as they all seem to enjoy it, especially Newt.) But judging from our Twitter feed, the highlight of the presentation was this automobile commercial shilled by America’s Second-Greatest Chimpanzee Co-Star.

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Title: “Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010”

Author: Charles Murray

Rank: 15

Blurb: “The top and bottom of white America increasingly live in different cultures, Murray argues, with the powerful upper class living in enclaves surrounded by their own kind, ignorant about life in mainstream America, and the lower class suffering from erosions of family and community life that strike at the heart of the pursuit of happiness. That divergence puts the success of the American project at risk.”

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[HuffPo, via @daveweigel]

[via Know Your Meme]

Today’s question comes from Charlie Cooke at NRO, who asks:

“Does anyone on the Left even ask the basic question of whether a private charitable organization has the right to dispose of its money as it sees fit?”

Answer: Yes! That’s why everyone on the Left is exercising their basic right to dispose of their private charitable money in the direction of Planned Parenthood instead of the Komen Foundation!

Thanks for playing!

You Should Find the Anti-Komen Backlash Disgusting, Even If You’re Pro-Choice [NRO]

“Roseanne Barr said Thursday she’s running for the Green Party’s presidential nomination — and it’s no joke.” [AP, via Political Wire]

We bitch about the rain, we bitch about the Ducks, we bitch about Animal House — all of which, as a native Eugenean Oregonian in Sandy Eggian Exile, is our birthright. But every once in awhile, something comes along to remind us of the Eugene we loved, the Eugene where everybody wears socks with their Birks without thinking twice.

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