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Oops! Taliban Reveal Identities of Their Mailing List Members

And I bet like 3 assholes kept replying-all with jokes, and all the other Taliban were like "fuck man, enough with the reply-alls."

ABC News

Your nailclippers are bad and you should feel bad

Look at these babies. I'm going to start calling Cadillacs the Klhips of cars.

If this doesn't inspire me to write

Then what will?

File under: God, Thank fucking. 

Penn State coach, "it's time to punch back."

[Penn State coach Bill O'Brien] spoke with members of the news media for nearly two hours, addressing the uncertainties that have clouded the future of the Penn State football program since it was hit with N.C.A.A. sanctions on Monday.

“I felt like it was important to try to get out in front,” O’Brien said. “We took a lot of punches. Penn State has taken a lot of punches over the last six months, and it’s time to punch back.”

New York Times

I think that metaphor suffers when you're the one punching yourself in the face. Maybe just stopping all the damn punching is a sounder strategy.

Israel can expect a high-five from Romney if they bomb Iran

Jerusalem (CNN) - Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney would "respect" a unilateral Israeli strike on Iran unilaterally should the Islamic republic develop nuclear weapons, Romney’s foreign policy adviser told reporters Sunday.

Or maybe just a shout on his next record, I really don't know what "respect a unilateral strike" means.

Nothing can be done? What if 5,000 additional people go to medical school and become doctors?

“We have a shortage of every kind of doctor, except for plastic surgeons and dermatologists,” said Dr. G. Richard Olds, the dean of the new medical school at the University of California, Riverside, founded in part to address the region’s doctor shortage. “We’ll have a 5,000-physician shortage in 10 years, no matter what anybody does.”

New York Times

Another option would be to loosen the definition of "physician." For example, a doctor of humanities would be qualified to conduct basic diagnostics or prescribe medicine.  Obviously a DFA wouldn't crack open a chest cavity, but s/he could draw some blood and check cholesterol.

Another possibility is to train dogs and or monkeys as veterinary aids. 

I should work at a damn think tank.

Tom Friedman is so high

Lord knows I am rooting for the opposition forces in Syria to quickly prevail on their own and turn out to be as democratically inclined as we hope. But the chances of this best-of-all-possible outcomes is low. That’s because Syria is a lot like Iraq. Indeed, Syria is Iraq’s twin — a multisectarian, minority-ruled dictatorship that was held together by an iron fist under Baathist ideology. And, for me, the lesson of Iraq is quite simple: You can’t go from Saddam to Switzerland without getting stuck in Hobbes — a war of all against all — unless you have a well-armed external midwife, whom everyone on the ground both fears and trusts to manage the transition. In Iraq, that was America. The kind of low-cost, remote-control, U.S./NATO midwifery that ousted Qaddafi and gave birth to a new Libya is not likely to be repeated in Syria. Syria is harder. Syria is Iraq.

What? (bolding mine)

NYT

Hey, I have a degree in English!

Dr. Ride was finishing studies at Stanford University — she had degrees in physics and astrophysics (and also English).

RIP, Dr. Ride. NYT

Dolce & Gabbana Men's Spring/Summer 2013 line

In which men dress like the less gender-specific half of a lesbian couple.

Via the Sartorialist

The NRA's unqualified victory

If you need any additional evidence of the NRA's complete victory on gun rights, look no further than Obama's statement on CO.

He mentions the word "gun" zero fucking times.

Obama's full statement