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+ What’s lower than ripping off a bingo game? Ripping off a bingo game whose proceeds go to the disabled. [wcbs via drudge]
+ Click to meet today’s winner for Least Surprising Headline! [mcclatchy]
+ Another shooting story from Bradenton, and a chilling quote from a 14 year old. These stories are becoming as routine as traffic reports, and you get the sense that no one — not even the Manatee NAACP chapter, which held an anti-violence rally just before this latest shooting — knows how to stop it. [bh]
+ Alstott’s out for the year, but we’re betting we’ve already seen him play for the last time. [ht]
+ Did you know that male seahorses give birth? And that it’s called sea-horsemanship? [pelican press]
+ Best thing we’ve seen this week: Nike holds the patent to the “McFly 2015,” the kicks Michael J. Fox wore in Back to the Future 2. These folks have a petition going to get the sneaks in production, and we’ll certainly get a pair, but we’re withholding our activism until someone patents the hover board. [wired]
+ The best part of yesterday’s front-page NYT story about the relationship between Bush and his dad: “It was relatively easy for me to read the sitting president’s body language after he had talked to his mother or father,” Mr. Card said. “Sometimes he’d ask me a probing question. And I’d think, Hmm, I don’t think that question came from him.” [nyt]

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