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April 27, 2012
Romney's Favorite Sandwich Shop Not Crazy About American Entrepreneurship
Today, the Republican boasted that he met the founder of Jimmy John's, a sandwich chain he regularly (and publicly) eats at on the campaign trail. But Romney may not agree with the message on this branded sign, found hanging in one of their restaurants.
McCain Goes Nuclear: "Shame On Barack Obama"
Republicans amp up attacks on Obama for campaigning on Bin Laden's slaying. "Shamelessly turning the one decision he got right into a pathetic political act of self-congratulation," says McCain.
Rajon Rondo Gets Really Goofy At The Tip-Off
At the start of every Celtics game, Rajon Rondo does something silly.
11 Animals That Are Secretly Jedi
The Force is strong with these creatures. But not all animals were created as powers for good.
38 Klouchiest Celebrites On Twitter
Klouchebag.com is a new Twitter rating system similar to Klout, but instead of "influence" it determines how annoying your Tweets are. The higher the score, the worse you are: it rates based on anger, retweet abuse, sending social media apps like Foursquare to your Twitter, and English language misuse.
Mining YouTube For TV Gold
Network Awesome creates clipped-together TV shows from millions of unsorted, hard-to-find YouTube videos. Every day its curators (who seem to have great taste) pick six new subjects to build shows around. Today's schedule: Ingmar Bergman, Björk, Ace of Base, and Iceland. Careful now, this is a time-hole you can't climb out of.
Corporal Puggerton
He's adorable but deadly.
LiLo Is Ruining Her "Glee" Cameo And Other Links
After five years without work, Lindsay's forgotten basic things like showing up. Plus, a diet of sunlight will kill you (duh) and not knowing Nutella isn't nutritious is worth $3 million.
Warren Blasted GE's Low Taxes, Not GM's
Conservative complaints about a double corporate standards. Or is that just the nature of a bailout?
People Brandon Weeden Is Older Than
Last night Brandon Weeden became the oldest player ever selected in the NFL draft. Here's some perspective.
Glenn Beck Site: Beck's Jeopardy Question Was Too Easy
The question did feature a photo of Beck himself.
22 Biggest Klouchebags On Twitter: Beltway Edition!
We plugged some of DC's biggest pundits, journalists, and politicos into Klouchebag to find the worst social media sinners. The program tabulates a given person's Twitter misdeeds — bad english, excessive social app use, retweet abuse, and anger/profanity — and pops out a score and a label. (With a score of 30, this reporter was dubbed "a bit of a prat.")
Whitney Houston's Last Meal Recreated By Artist
Local NYC artist Thomas Demand recreated the scene at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on the day of Whitney Houston's death, thanks to the tacky shots taken by TMZ. Hamburgers, French fries, Heineken, and Champagne: not the worst last meal a person could have?
"Hire Me Maybe!" A Song For The Charlotte Bobcats, The Worst Team In NBA History
MJ's boys had a season so bad, it can only be celebrated with a parody of Carly Rae Jepsen's "Call Me Maybe." As with all Jepsen parodies, it's sung from the perspective of Bobcats coach Paul Silas.
The Most Insane Foreign Action Flicks On Netflix
You've probably never seen action flicks this crazy before.
The Most Important Rule In Video Games (And In Life)
Go right. Not left. Not up or down. Right. This video is more inspiring than it has any right to be.
11 Reasons President Obama Isn't As Cool As They Say
If he was as cool as both his supporters and Republicans allege, he wouldn't be wearing those mom jeans.
"Bin" And "Laden" Are Joe Biden's New Favorite Words
If Team Obama isn't careful this could easily turn into the '12 version of a noun, a verb and 9/11.
Watch Humanity Spread Like A Virus
In less than 250 years, we've grown like wildfire. Globaïa animation shows the veiny crosshatch of human shipping routes via land, sea and air that dominate our planet.
Barack Obama In 2008: I Won't Make Osama Bin Laden A Martyr
The President didn't want to martyr the 9/11 mastermind in 2008. He's now attacking Romney a 2007 remark downplaying the terror leader's importance. [Update]
Seth Green Has Multiple Personality Disorder
Is that a banana is his pocket or is he just happy to see us? Nope, false alarm. It's just a banana.
Watch The First Scene Of Sacha Baron Cohen's "The Dictator"
If you became a the leader of an entire country at the tender age of seven, you might be a little crazy, too.
How Fonts Are Born
Here are some 80-year-old sketches for Gill Sans, one of the most recognizable fonts in the world. Baby typefaces are ADORABLE.
Al Franken Weeps On Senate Floor
Chills. Here's Senator Franken yesterday breaking down while arguing for the reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act, specifically while invoking the memory of his deceased friends, Paul and Sheila Wellstone. The bill passed 68-31.
Turning A Jawbreaker Into A Shot Glass
This is the most hypnotizing thirteen minutes of swirling colors you'll see all day. And the result is very cool.
'80s Band Contemplating Legal Action Against Rove Group
An Obama-bashing commercial by Karl Rove's Super PAC appears to sample from an '80s electronica hit — but Yello did not approve this message.
48 More Photographs Of The Romney Family Looking Perfectly Normal
Mitt Romney's sons maintained the "Five Brothers Blog," during his 2008 campaign. The message: He's a regular guy.
The "Girls Club" 2012
Meet the women actually running the Obama re-elect. Low profile, high-powered “badasses,” says one campaign staffer.
Gingrich's Secret Service Protection To Officially End Tonight
Newt Gingrich will lose his Secret Service protection tonight, a few days before the scheduled end of his campaign.
Fans Boo NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell At The NFL Draft
Once he actually starts the draft they get excited, but before? Not too happy.
