The Two McCains Episode 3 “My Foreign Fallacy”Uploaded by NationalLampoon

John of the Grimaces met Barack the Unflappable in Hempsteadtonight, and the guy with the arctic cool, not surprisingly, prevailed.

The Conference Board’s Consumer Confidence Index has just posted another large decline. The March readings came in at 64.5, which is well under what we had…

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First she says male comedy usually involves robots and sharks and bears. Then she characterizes Jon Stewart as going for cheap laughs? As much as we love 30 Rock, it is SO on.

a 13-year-old girl from Toronto is offering a rare glimpse into the secret world of autism and has become a symbol of hope for parents and families coping with an autistic child..

Kevin Rose got a Qik account - follow him as he gives a tour of the Digg HQ in San Francisco

In remembrance of the 4,000 brave men and women who sacrificed everything for us — and the two men who would continue this great tragedy, despite the cost to our soldiers, our military, and our nation.

Lawyers for baseball players and owners hope to reach an agreement on changes in their drug agreement before most teams start the regular season, culminating talks that began following recommendations in December’s Mitchell Report.

Awesome picture of the very sexy Tina Fey. She’s hot.

Taking a page out of the Hulu playbook, but awesomer, the South Park guys are streaming every single South Park episode in full at their official site, South Park Studios.

Zach Dunlap says he feels “pretty good,” four months after he was declared brain dead and doctors were about to remove his organs for transplant. Dunlap was pronounced dead November 19 after he was injured in an all-terrain vehicle accident. As family members were paying their last respects, he moved his foot and hand.

Psychologists have found that the link between a person’s attitudes and their behaviours is not always that strong. In fact people have a nasty habit of saying one thing then doing the opposite, even with the best of intentions.

CBS News was on that very trip.

“We believe the Olympic Games are not the place for demonstrations and we hope that all people attending the games recognize the importance of this.” Thus spake Samsung Electronics, one of 12 major corporate sponsors of the Olympics, when asked last week whether recent events in Tibet were causing them any concern. Coca-Cola, another Olympics sponsor, has stated that while it would be inappropriate “to comment on the political situation of individual nations,” the company firmly believes “that the Olympics are a force for good.” The chairman of the International Olympic Committee, Jacques Rogge, was also quick to declare that “a boycott doesn’t solve anything”—just as quick as he was to dismiss the demonstrators who waved a black banner showing five interlocked handcuffs, in mockery of the Olympic symbol, at Monday’s lighting of the Olympic torch in Greece. “It is always sad to see such a ceremony disrupted,” he declared, rather pompously.

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Is Barack Obama the Resurrection and the Life ? To answer this question, Slate has periodically gathered gratuitously adoring material from newspaper, television, and magazine coverage of the U.S. senator from Illinois, best-selling author, Harvard Law Review president, Men’s Vogue cover model, two-time Grammy winner, efficient note-taker, physics wunderkind, descendent of George Washington’s great-great-great-great-great grandfather, teenage jazz enthusiast, possible telepathic communicator with space aliens from distant galaxies, improvement on all civil rights gains since 1957, calmer of turbulent Iownas, bearer of photographic halos, and front-running candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination.

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If you haven’t seen a better GPS yet, then how about this?

Laughter is that involuntary response humans of all cultures share, and while we may think of it as a reaction to humor (the funnier we find something, the more we laugh at it, goes the common wisdom), devoid of any other qualification it is a complex (and virulently contagious) social phenomenon.

“To hear her tell it, she was lucky to escape with her life, landing in a hail of sniper fire. She said they were forced to cut short the greeting ceremony at the airport and, ‘run with our heads down to get into the vehicles to get to our base.’ But apparently there was time to stop and visit at the airport with an 8-year-old girl…”

Test yourself! On my B&W 685 speakers I could only hear a little difference between the two clips, never knew that 128 kbps mp3’s where so good!

Interesting article about Hitler’s plans for “Germania”, including a dome so big, the breath from the 180,000 people inside would condense and cause it to rain!

What form would evolution take on life-bearing planets similar in size to earth? With the intense effort of the world’s astronomers in their search for earth-like planets beyond our solar system, scientists are putting extra thought into the concept of alien evolution and have come up with some interesting results.

“Senator Clinton said that a planned welcoming ceremony was cancelled because they needed to avoid sniper fire, but news footage shows that she was met by a small child who read her a poem…when you make a false claim that’s in your prepared remarks, it’s not misspeaking, it’s misleading, and it’s part of a troubling pattern,” a spokesman said.

very strong picture…

Surprisingly pretty fun…….

How much of a rhetorical genius is Bill Clinton? He could find wiggle room in the word is. He could issue stern denials about his relationship with Monica Lewinsky while looking straight into the camera. Sen. Bob Kerrey once described him as “an unusually good liar.” Clinton is considered such a master of the art of political speech that during this campaign, his every remark is scrutinized for hidden agendas, motivations, and lucky lottery numbers.

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The State Department revealed last week that the passport files of all three major presidential candidates have been accessed improperly. Obama’s records were breached on three occasions, including last Monday, March 14, while the other two candidates’ files were each compromised at least once. What’s in a passport file?

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The State Department revealed last week that the passport files of all three major presidential candidates have been accessed improperly. Obama’s records were breached on three occasions, including last Monday, March 14, while the other two candidates’ files were each compromised at least once. What’s in a passport file?

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NBC’s Norah O’Donnell said that McCain was “not smart to make himself sort of a G.I. Joe candidate” because “a whopping 76 percent, in our latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll, said they want a candidate who has policies different than President Bush.” “This country wants to move on from that,” said O’Donnell.

LONDON - Formula One’s governing body faced calls to modify qualifying procedures for safety reasons after McLaren’s Lewis Hamilton and Heikki Kovalainen were penalised in Malaysia at the weekend.

The newest McCarthyism: In the latest name-calling volleys between Democratic campaigns, Bill Clinton sparked angry reactions from Barack Obama’s camp when he said Friday that he hoped for a general election between “two people who loved this country and were devoted to the interest of this country.” Construing the statement as suggesting that Obama is unpatriotic, retired Air Force Gen. Merrill “Tony” McPeak, an Obama adviser, compared the sentiments akin to McCarthyism.

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An Obama adviser brings up the blue dress. Cue outrage!

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We’re now in the midst of an epic financial crisis which ought to be at the center of the election debate. But it isnt. Both Democratic candidates have been disappointingly quiet about the need to reform our out-of-control financial system. I dont expect presidential campaigns to have all the answers to our current crisis but they should addre

Ars explains the Ubuntu, Fedora, and OpenSUSE release cycles and tells you what you need to know to track ongoing development. We also have screenshot comparisons of the latest OpenSUSE 11, Ubuntu 8.04, and Fedora 9 prereleases.

Inside, the walls of the Cybertectured cinema comprises sculptural, organic shapes molded together to form a U-shaped corridor, creating a journey of discovery at the entrances of each cinema auditorium. The cinema’s design has been configured so that from the moment patrons arrive, they are transported to a totally new cinematic experience.

Fueled by the rising popularity of soft drinks and fast-food restaurants, Mexico has become the second fattest nation in the world. Mexican health officials say it could surpass the U.S. as the most obese country within 10 years if trends continue. More than 71 percent of Mexican women and 66 percent of Mexican men are overweight.

The Clinton campaign says Senator Hillary Clinton may have “misspoke” recently when she said she had to evade sniper fire when she was visiting Bosnia in 1996 as first lady.

Jericho, whose devoted fans rallied to save it from cancellation, has met its end.

Let me guess—you were shocked by Davidson’s second-round upset of Big East powerhouse Georgetown on Sunday. Well, I saw it coming. Feel free to start a chant of Bullshit! Bullshit! at your office, but I cannot tell a lie. I actually thought the Wildcats had enough Cinderella potential to contact the school’s athletic department this past fall in the hope of following the team for a book about the season—right to the Sweet 16, if all went well. Like every other elite private school in America, Davidson turned me down. So, I watched the Wildcats dismantle the Hoyas with wistfulness and a soupçon of bitterness. It’s like seeing the band you’ve been following down at the local dive make it big. Now everyone can claim my little mid-major.

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It’s far less painful to prevent disease than live with it. Take a look through some basic foods that have a tremendous effect on your health and life.

Developer Harmonix today announced that its music-based title Rock Band will hit the Wii on June 22 in North America.The Wii version will come with a total of 63 songs, including five bonus songs.

Will there be any way to get a copy of Windows XP after June 30? If you want to continue using XP, what problems will you face? If you buy a PC with Vista installed and decide you want XP instead, what are your options?

Development costs could reach upwards of $50 million.

2 old guys morph in size as they walk around the room.Explanations:Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2CbqGL6qLGM&NR=1In-Depth: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ames_room

Learn about and play with each planet!

The Olympic torch begins a 130-day, 85,000-mile journey Monday that will take it from the site of ancient Olympia in Greece to Beijing, China, where the 2008 summer games will begin in August.

Noting the burden placed on military families, the Vice President said the biggest burden is carried by President Bush, and reminded ABC news that the U.S. military in Iraq and Afghanistan volunteered for duty.

The Clinton camp’s new metric for victory: electoral votes.

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Will new marketing techniques, a la Radiohead’s In Rainbows, be able to fix the music industry? Trent Reznor is the latest example that they certainly have a chance.

1 yr ago, Barack Obama sent a letter (see article for full text) to Fed Reserve Chair Ben Bernanke and Treas. Sec. Henry Paulson urging them to convene a homeownership preservation summit. Today, Clinton is proposing essentially the same thing (EXCEPT she wants only the same inside-wankers who got us into this mess to figure out how to fix it.)

A prison is probably the last place on Earth most of us would want to spend the night, right? Well, in one converted Latvian ‘prison hotel’ this still holds: ‘guests’ (who pay to stay at a former KGB jail complex) are subjected to emotional torture. In Switzerland, however, you can enjoy a luxurious stay in a former prison’s library!

Some lucky bastards have unlimited funds, while others have to pinch every penny, but it’s possible to put together a potent PC for just about any budget. The key is targeting different price/performance points; to that end, our system guides offer three configurations.

For those of you who run on beer, tell people to kiss your shiny metal ass, and think there’s nothing better than LEGO Star Wars or LEGO Space, here’s LEGO Futurama. As you will see in the 24-photo gallery after the jump, the Planet Express headquarters features custom detailed minifigs of the main characters

After being absolutely wrong wrong wrong (WRONG) about the first iPhone, Digg’s Kevin Rose has now settled down for the obvious: he says that the 3G version of the JesusPhone will have a camera on the front for video-conferencing with other 3G iPhone and Macintosh iChat users. Most probably, he is right about this, but not about the rest of his pre

If you’re familiar with Valve’s amazing puzzle game Portal, you might find it interesting that the much loved Companion Cube showed up in Toronto!

Debating the merits of Munaf and the U.S.-led coalition in Iraq

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Below you will see a variety of videos - fan made, professionally completed, mashed up, serious, and funny. May the force be with them all.

Just when you thought that the world couldn’t get any weirder, you found it on the Internet. The following ten websites are bursting at the seams of the weird, strange and bizarre.

Pretty funny for what I’m hoping is a third grade exam.

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and there’s no end in sight.

It’s been more than a month since I began warning Sen. Barack Obama that he would become answerable for his revolting choice of a family priest. But never mind that; the astonishing thing is that it’s at least 11 months since he himself has known precisely the same thing. “If Barack gets past the primary,” said the Rev. Jeremiah Wright to the New York Times in April of last year, “he might have to publicly distance himself from me. I said it to Barack personally, and he said yeah, that might have to happen.” Pause just for a moment, if only to admire the sheer calculating self-confidence of this. Sen. Obama has long known perfectly well, in other words, that he’d one day have to put some daylight between himself and a bigmouth Farrakhan fan. But he felt he needed his South Side Chicago “base” in the meantime. So he coldly decided to double-cross that bridge when he came to it. And now we are all supposed to marvel at the silky success of the maneuver.

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Now, according to the Extrasolar Planets Encyclopedia, there are 277 confirmed “extrasolar” planets, and quite a few more on the list of those suspected but not yet confirmed.

Listen to the Gabfest for March 21 by clicking the arrow on the audio player below:

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Incredible compilation of near death experiences and the people who survived them… some of them are insane!

The MLB season opens this week with a match up of the defending champion Boston Red Sox taking on the rebuilding Oakland Athletics in Tokyo. With the start of the season comes peanuts, cracker jacks and in this year’s case raw fish eyes, but Sports Hubris is happy to give you it’s preseason power rankings as well!

According to the latest Federal Election Commission report, John McCain has now spent $58.4 million dollars. McCain applied for public financing, and according to FEC chairman David Mason (in a letter to McCain), he can’t withdraw without permission of the FEC. So he is now legally in violation of campaign finance law.

We’ve narrowed down all the punny entries from last week’s Best Pun IN THE WORLD!! Competition and settled on the following 10. As with the caption contests, we’re letting YOU guys pick the winner. One vote per person, please, and may the best pun win!

How far would YOU go to prevent a pregnancy? Not as far as the ancient Egyptians, we assure you.