Remember Iraq? The Dear Leader’s little war?

Activists told the Cairo-based al-Akhbar daily that at least 90 Iraqi teenagers with “emo” appearances have been stoned to death by the Moral Police in the country in the past month. The violent crackdown against “emo” Iraqi teenagers came after the Iraqi interior ministry declared them as “devil worshippers.”

Title: “Becoming China’s Bitch: And Nine More Catastrophes We Must Avoid Right Now”

Author: Peter D. Kiernan

Rank: 35

Blurb: “Presented from a fresh yet informative Centrist perspective, these ten impending catastrophes include our semiconscious dependency on China, our lack of a centrally coordinated intelligence effort, our downward-spiraling health-care system, and the continually expanding problem of illegal immigration.”

Review: “Meryl Streep said it all in her back of the book-jacket endorsement (the ONLY endorsement)…”

Customers Also Bought: “Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think” by Peter H. Diamandis

Footnote: “Peter D. Kiernan, former partner at Goldman Sachs, is chairman of his own venture firm.”

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“During a speech at Wesleyan University last night, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia offered a strange revision of the time he joined with four of his conservative colleagues to make George W. Bush president: ‘It was a long time ago, people forget…It was a 7-2 decision. It wasn’t even close,” he said.'” [ThinkProgress Justice]

We have one. We bought it in 1980. We wrote a story about it for the college paper. We’ve never solved it. Fuck robots.

If there’s one thing I like it’s a nice song.

Fortunately, this is not a nice song.

Today, to kick off his swing through the South, the Romney panderbot made his appeal for the crucial Limey vote.

“Cor, stone the crows!” he was hear to opine at Heathrow’s dreaded Terminal One, “the trouble ‘n’ me are here to express our deep affection for all things English.

Not many people know it but my middle name is Nigel. If there’s one thing Ann (with an e) and I like it’s a nice plate of bangers ‘n’ mash. Crikey, them’s good eatin’, y’all. As a huntsman myself, I have a hankerin’ for varmints. Small varmints, if you will. Where was I?

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Rush Limbaugh said on Wednesday everything was “cool” with his show despite the mass exodus of close to 50 advertisers in the wake of Slutgate.  Yet on Thursday listeners were treated to five minutes of dead air during his show. Dead air. Radio silence. Crickets.  According to Think Progress:

There were four separate instances during this afternoon’s broadcast on WABC 770 AM in New York City where the network fell silent. During the lead in to the show, two and a half minutes of silence was broken up by a single, solitary ad before Limbaugh hit the air. Then, towards the end of the first hour of Limbaugh’s three hour program, a public service announcement was followed by an additional minute of silence before Limbaugh returned. Another minute of dead air came in hour two, and a fifth minute in hour three followed that. A spokesperson for WABC wouldn’t say whether the silence was caused due to a technical glitch or Limbaugh’s fleeing sponsors.

According to Media Matters, 77 of the 86 ads aired on Thursday were free public service announcements. Of the nine paid ads, seven were from companies who are in the process of withdrawing their ads from his show.

Couldn’t happen to bigger sack of shit.