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Another day, another new low hit by the McCain campaign.

• Hillary Clinton, unwittingly, pitches in for the McCain campaign.

• The future of fat: 40 years and every U.S. adult will be overweight.

• The question we all want answered: Who can I sue?

• Forgotten war in Afghanistan passes tragic milesstone.

• Hillary is pressing for a floor vote at the Dem National Convention. Really.

• Shouldn’t civil liberties at least be talked about by the major candidates?

• The United States’ place in the deplorable history of killing women and children first.

• And finally, something that does not depress me (and one of the great moments in movie history):

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The Bard’s original theater un-buried.

To catch you up, and it IS worth doing… Anderson Cooper vs. the Lohans, Part 1. (While we’re at it, our take.)

Part 2: Dina Dearest fires back.

Part 3: Andy responds. Ah, SNAP!

C’mon. Is this yawn-worthy report of Winehouse-induced yawns only an across-the-pond yawn? [Yawn.]

First Diddy pimps a booze, now Dre (to coincide with his Detox album, natch). Who’s next? Amy Winehouse? Yawn.

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See you at the debate, old wrinkly guy.

• There appears to be little room for civil disobedience in the current humorless atmosphere.

• What do you do when domestic terrorists are in short supply? Start charging the innocent.

• Fail to pay a parking ticket, lose your house. Really.

• Coming soon: your national ID card:

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The one guaranteed sanctuary from interwebs-related work is gone.

There’s no such thing as confidential medical records at UCLA.

The Batman passes $400 million.

Can we really call anything Tyra does only “vaguely unsettling” at this point in time?

Somebody punch this DJ in the face. Now.

While you’re at it, knock this tool out, too — with a footlong or otherwise.

Post face punch, we have the technology to build/make you all better. Just ask Madge.

Kelsey Grammer out of the hospital — again. Doc’s orders: More tossed salads, fewer scrambled eggs. C’mon, we had to use it — again.

Gawker does a fine color commentary on political family portraits.

Lord of the Dweebs Shires one on in Oregon. At least, until the Hobbitat met with foreclosure.

As we stare at the erroneously deemed “emerald” Rizpoc structure outside our office, 15 examples of truly “green” buildings.

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 Really. He wants to bring the same ham-fisted tactics that are failing in Baghdad to the streets of the United States.

• Italy’s giving fascism another shot.

• Repeat after me: It’s Cheney’s fault.

• The matra: when in doubt, blame Osama.

• Does everyone understand just how destructive a war with Iran will be?

• The rats continue to flee the sinking ship that is the Republican Party.

• For sale to the highest bidder: America’s infrastructure.

• Print is finally dead.

• This is best played very, very loud:

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Why was the CIA protecting Radovan Karadzic, the butcher of Kosovo?

• Economic news just continues to get worse.

• Now even prime borrowers are starting to default on loans.

• Bradenton bank goes belly-up.

• What’s really killing newspapers.

• On Joe Klein’s stand against Israeli neocons, the most dangerous people in the world.

• Another view on the kerfluffle.

• Osama bin Laden’s driver is on “trial” in Guantanamo Bay right now. But even if he is exonerated, what will we do with him? We could send him to the new prisons we’re building in Saudi Arabia. Or maybe the one we’re building on Diego Garcia?

• Think the surge has made life better in Baghdad? Think again:

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Numbers are in, and the Batman still rules. (But why did that many people go to see the new Mummy movie, anyway?)

Not even gunfire disrupts a Diddy, et al. shindig.

American Idol’s Archuleta drops his single, “Crush.” Speaking of which…

Ow, LaBeouf’s hand.

Thirty pages of baby photos? A bit of Brangelina overkill, isn’t it? Ohhh, riiiigggght, we get it.

Laptops: Not as portable as you think.

Lohan livid at LAPD.

Ashes to ashes… How to green your funeral.

Slate reviews Pammy’s new series, Girl on the Loose. ‘Nuff said.

A Hilton utters intelligence. Film at 11.

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It was only a changeover from Hancock to The Batman movie, but…

Defamer offers a fine point-counterpoint regarding the GOP.

Also courtesy of Defamer: The Audible Laugh Inducing Headline of the Day. (This runs a close second. And, this one, too. Em, here too. Yeah. And this one. Aw Christ, we give up.)

Um kay, Pammy. You go right on ahead there and “build” you a hotel. An eco-friendly one. In Abu Dhabi. It totally took you long enough.

Xenu’s real pissed, and Tom’s lawyers have already been retained.

Separating the sexes, one pet at a time. That oughta take care of it. Boneheads.

Boneheads, part two (Hint: Wal-Mart is involved.)

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Rupert Murdock’s greasy little meat hooks are all over this one.

There’s a story in the Wall Street Journal, and mind you, this is posited as a news story, not an opinion piece, that speculates that Barack Obama may be a poor presidential candidate because he is too physically fit.

I’ll just let that sink in for a minute.

Here’s what the WSJ is saying: Many Americans are overweight and, as such, can’t identify with a physically fit person like Obama; i.e., body type is now a major factor in picking a president.

Never mind that our current president, George W. Bush, is himself very fit and makes his personal physical fitness a point of personal pride. This admirable dedication to personal health did not seem to hurt him in either the 2000 or 2004 elections.

This story officially marks the point where the WSJ jumped the shark.

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• What should John McCain do with President Bush at the convention?

• McCain has, however, figured out what kind of campaign he’s going to run - a dirty one.

• Dick Cheney’s crazy idea of killing American Navy SEALs to start a war with Iran.

• More than 3 million Americans became expatriates last year.

• The former head of the CIA’s extraordinary rendition program is now leading Blackwater’s new intelligence service.

• If you are traveling with your laptop, make sure there’s nothing important on it, as the Department of Homeland Security can confiscate it and take it offsite to be examined as it sees fit.

• The first of the Guantanamo Bay show trials continues, including the first use of secret testimony.

• The most violent cops in America - in Prince Georges County, Maryland, just shot both of mayor’s dogs.

• NYPD calls for neighbors to snoop on neighbors and then turn the video evidence over to authorities. I doubt, however, that this is the sort of video they were hoping to see. WARNING: Graphic violence.

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