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News Bits: A Possibly Unhealthy Obsession with Sarah Palin
- New Orleans might, fingers crossed, have dodged the (latest) bullet.
- Little Mrs. Anti-Earmark actually got a bunch of federal $$ for tiny Wasilla (maybe to fund the Iditarod Museum?)
- Ridiculous as she is, Palin brought in the bucks this past weekend.
- Bangkok is in a state of emergency (no, this is not about the Nic Cage movie).
- The Leaning Tower of Pisa is really losing its mojo.
- Dubai: not paradise for workers, we already know; also not one for lesbians.
- No manly American actors anymore?
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