MUSIC BUZZ: Despite her retirement , M.I.A. played a show in Brooklyn Saturday night where fans saw the real reason she canceled all her summer shows. She’s pregnant! Her Paper Plane lyrics suddenly make more sense. When she sang, “All I wanna do is (BANG BANG BANG BANG!)”, she really meant it!

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1. M.I.A. is pregnant, played the Diesel Party - pics
2. M.I.A. Pregnant
3. M.I.A. Pregnant, Performs at Diesel Circus
4. Kind of putting on weight
5. Like, Really, Really Pregnant
6. M.I.A. Cancels European Tour
7. M.I.A. on Wikipedia

POLITICS BUZZ: VP candidate Sarah Palin announced that her 17-year-old daughter Bristol is five months pregnant (which takes care of the rumor that she was eight months pregnant with Trig four months ago). Let’s hear it for abstinence-only education!

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1. To Rebut Rumors, Palin Says Daughter, 17, Pregnant
2. The Truth About Those Sarah Palin Pregnancy Coverup Rumors!
3. It’s About Choice
4. Sarah Palin’s Baby Conspiracy

CULTURE BUZZ: What’s up with all the babies making babies? While some blame President Bush’s insistent promotion of abstinence (or its medical term “Genitalia Imaginaris”), others think that old sleeper hit Juno is to blame. Between Jamie Lynn Spears , the Gloucester girls , and The Baby Borrowers , don’t be surprised if our next President gives an official government job to [my favorite] creepy baby photog Anne Geddes .

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1. Baby Bumps: The New Uggs?
2. “Here Comes ‘The Baby Borrowers’ to Deglamorize Parenthood All Over Again! “
3. Pro-lifers Couldn’t Be Happier
4. Abortion Rates Falling - Thank You, Juno?
5. “Entrusting and Empowering Women With Their Own Reproductive Decisions Might Be a More Auspicious Strategy for Reducing Overall Abortion Numbers Than Seeking to Impose Draconian and Patronizing Juridical and Legislative Bans and Bars to Abortion” [Okay, So What Are You Trying To Say?]
6. Teen Pregnancy Rates On The Decline? Jezebel Weighs In
7. Juno Makes Teen Pregnancy “Absurdly Simple”
8. Tabloids to Blame?