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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“I’m not familiar precisely with exactly what I said, but I stand by what I said, whatever it was.” —Mitt Romney, trapped in a cosmic vortex. [TPM]

Our guest columnist wasn’t paying attention in 1991.

Barack Obama, the first African-American president of the Harvard Law Review, was born in Kenya and raised in Indonesia and Hawaii. The son of an American anthropologist and a Kenyan finance minister, he attended Columbia University and worked as a financial journalist and editor for Business International Corporation. He served as project coordinator in Harlem for the New York Public Interest Research Group, and was Executive Director of the Developing Communities Project in Chicago’s South Side. His commitment to social and racial issues will be evident in his first book, Journeys in Black and White.

Obama’s Literary Agent in 1991 Booklet: ‘Born in Kenya and raised in Indonesia and Hawaii’ [Breitbart]

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“In a May 16 story about the death of go-go musician Chuck Brown, The Associated Press misspelled another musician’s first name. The correct spelling is Jimi Hendrix, not Jimmy Hendrix.” [AP/Yahoo, via @pourmecoffee]

Donna Summer Dead at 63 [TMZ]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9f9q4u4cdbs

We had been contemplating all day Wednesday an Important Post about Eduardo Saverin, the Facebook cofounder (better known as Spider-Man) who is giving up his naturalized American citizenship rather than pay an estimated $67 million in taxes when Facebook’s upcoming IPO makes him filthy rich. Our point was going to be opposite the Conventional Outrage on the subject: You’re free to leave — as long as you never set foot again on American soil.

And then, well, this.

[via Sully]

Audio NSFW:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooD04tSj-QU

Was sort of on board until the taco shells … and who the fuck eats a pizza with bar mitzvah pigs-in-blankets as a crust?