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• Posted Gaddafi Knows How to Throw a Party [News Bits] to Austinist
  Poll says Americans are divided on health care. Yup. NY 23 election, two weeks later: Hoffman un-concedes after nudging from Glenn Beck. Don't worry, you can still have your raw oysters - bacteria and all! Gaddafi brings 200 Italian women to a villa and tries to convert them to Islam. Word of the Year: "unfriend." Russian cannibals sell corpse for kebabs? Is this a Troma movie or something? Team Taylor panties? You better believe...
• Posted Some Good, Some Bad [News Bits] to Austinist
  In case you didn't hear...public option lives to see another day. Recession is "over"...but job losses continue, so who cares? Sobering words from a Foreign Service officer who is resigning because of the Afghanistan war. How do you protect troops from ever-evolving explosive devices? South African religious leaders plan animal sacrifice to bless the World Cup. Career advice for 9-year-olds? Why not? If anybody deserves an Oscar, it's Sam Rockwell....
• Posted Doll Parts for People [News Bits] to Austinist
  Afghan election will happen all over again. Attn politicians: Most Americans STILL support the public option. Pakistani university gets hit hard. Behind the scenes, Michelle quietly gathers force. Giant exotic snakes threaten us! Biotech is working to give us the new knees we need. Mackenzie Phillips trainwreck continues....
• Posted Moments of Truth [News Bits] to Austinist
  Come on, Olympia Snowe. Come into the light. US and Russia to Iran: How dare you have nuclear weapons? That's our game! Coal plants working towards cleaner air, polluting the water instead. MLK's kids reach an out-of-court settlement. Limbaugh, feeling a bit threatened, takes credit for Beck. Government-sponsored honeymoon? Now that's stimulus! Why Viggo looks better playing solemn....
• Posted By Any Other Name [News Bits] to Austinist
  Obama confers about Afghanistan with a bipartisan group of legislators (because bipartisanship has been going so well for him lately...) Polanski loses bid to be released; court calls him a "flight risk." Why are we taking the word "climate" out of climate change legislation? Strange baby-stealing case in Tennessee. Major suspect in Rwandan genocide arrested. Spike Lee kills the myth of the "post-racial society." Conde Nast shuts down Gourmet along with three other "lady"...