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		<title>You, Too, Can “Friend” Pope Benedict XVI</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Mar 2011 20:02:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Slurvy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yes, ladies and gentlemen, the Papacy is getting its own Facebook page.  It already has an event page that was designed to promote Benedict XVI’s September trip to the UK.  Apparently, despite the six-month expiration of the event for which it was designed, more than 10,000 people regularly check in.  Those devout Catholics evidently need to get their mass on.  Seeing this, the Vatican’s social communications office found an untapped market: Facebook freaks.  The millions and millions of people across the globe who spend hours every day—hours when they should be focusing on spreadsheets for work or maintaining relationships with family—screwing around on Facebook.]]></description>
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		<title>Federal Prosecutors Desperately Need Hobbies, Barry Bonds Suffers</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Feb 2011 17:50:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Slurvy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[And so Barry Bonds is being indicted.  Again.  Really.  After we had forgotten, for the most part, about the whole BALCO scandal, about the whole steroid issue, about who was juicing whom.  We had gotten out of heads the horrifying images of Jose Canseco sticking a needle into Mark McGwire’s butt.  But when we think back, we scratch our heads as we try to remember how and why Barry Bonds somehow became the Big Fat Liar who needs to be hunted like a dog.  Out of all of the Major League players who went from reed-thin to freakishly muscular in less than an off-season, it is Bonds whom prosecutors wanted to take down, and, like rabid bulldogs, they continue to hold on.  And whither Mark McGwire, Mike Piazza, Roger Clemens, Sammy Sosa, and Pudge Rodriguez?  Did showing up in court wearing bifocals make some of them appear frail enough to cause the grand jury to dismiss the idea that they had been using steroids?]]></description>
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		<title>Sarah Palin and Bristol Palin Trademark Foolishness</title>
		<link>http://www.diamondthoughts.com/2011/02/sarah-palin-and-bristol-palin-trademark-foolishness/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Feb 2011 15:46:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Slurvy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you were thinking about opening the Sarah Palin Bathhouse and Food Co-op, you might be out of luck.  And if you wanted to open the first Bristol Palin Academy of Dance, you could have to find a new dream to dream.  The Palins have decided to trademark their most respected of names.  The initial applications, submitted by the Palin family lawyer, were rejected on the grounds that they were not personally signed by either Sarah or Bristol.  Perhaps Mrs. Palin was too busy shooting wildlife and slamming healthcare reform.  And in Bristol’s defense, it is possible that the ABCs were taught while—go-getter that she is—was becoming a self-taught Birds-and-Bees expert.  And it is just this kind of Palin aptitude that has caused the mother and daughter to seek ownership of their names.  They want to be the only Sarah Palin and Bristol Palin on the motivational speaking circuit.]]></description>
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		<title>We Want to Hate ‘Em But We Can’t: Lil Wayne and Eminem</title>
		<link>http://www.diamondthoughts.com/2010/12/we-want-to-hate-em-but-we-cant-lil-wayne-and-eminem/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Dec 2010 21:03:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Slurvy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here we have the stories of two rappers with—ahem—colorful backgrounds who have each done things that have landed them in trouble with the police, with women, with gays, with just about everyone.  Remember Tipper Gore and the PMRC going after bands like 2 Live Crew?  The game has changed, and Lil Wayne and Eminem are two of the men leading the profanity parade.  But somehow, for some absolutely inexplicable reason, they are irresistible, and pulled in huge numbers performing together on Saturday Night Live last night.  Of course, they have to tone down their language on network television, but their performances didn’t suffer for it.  How can this be?  And why do we watch?]]></description>
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		<title>Sal Alosi Admits He’s A Total Jerk</title>
		<link>http://www.diamondthoughts.com/2010/12/sal-alosi-admits-hes-a-total-jerk/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Dec 2010 17:41:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Slurvy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, duh.  In an effort to save his skin, he called Carroll to apologize.  He also apologized to Dolphins coach Tony Sparano, Jets coach Rex Ryan, GM Mike Tannenbaum, and owner Woody Johnson.  He may or may not have texted Brett Favre for taking some of the spotlight off of him.  Ryan said, “I was stunned that something like this actually took place.”  He went on to say that, although Alosi’s actions had “no business in this league or anywhere else,” he admired that the suspended coach never denied what he did and “that he stood up and he took responsibility.”]]></description>
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		<title>God Intervenes to Keep Favre’s Streak Alive</title>
		<link>http://www.diamondthoughts.com/2010/12/god-intervenes-to-keep-favres-streak-alive/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Dec 2010 09:48:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Slurvy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Through all of this, Favre has been seen throwing lightly and rubbing his arm.  With a 297-game streak, he was expected to give up on the dramatics shortly before game time to bring his number to 298.  I recall a disagreement I had with my brother in the 1990s regarding Cal Ripken Jr.’s consecutive games streak.  He argued that there comes a point when a player should bow out and do what is best for the team.  I argued that what was best for the team was to see the dedication of an older player who might only stay in for a few innings but show what commitment really is.  But football is not baseball.  There’s a big difference between third basemen who has lost a few steps and a quarterback who can’t throw.  A streak is a great thing, but Favre already has the NFL record of consecutive games started and a hefty ring covered in diamonds from Superbowl XXXI.  He’s achieved just about every possible award he can win, and he pays the fans and his teams back by doing the “will I, won’t I” game every chance he gets.  He did it so much that the Packers sent him packing, even though he had been a fan favorite and was still a great QB.]]></description>
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		<title>Don’t Mess with WikiLeaks (or You’ll Sleep with the Fishes)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Dec 2010 17:22:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Slurvy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Basically, while Interpol was ready to go looking for the WikiLeaks spokesperson, fans of his site made commerce extraordinarily difficult on an international level.  The lesson is that you cannot mess with The People.  WikiLeaks supporters are the high-tech version of the Colombian coke dealers in Scarface.  They used a cyber-chainsaw and the shower was the credit card business, which previously felt itself invulnerable.  Oops.  After proving that hackers can, indeed, achieve more-or-less what Tyler Durden was going for in Fight Club—and on some of the busiest shopping days of the year—they backed off, having proven their point.]]></description>
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		<title>Anderson Cooper Gets Sloppy with Lady Gaga in London</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Nov 2010 21:45:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Slurvy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Either our Anderson lost count or the silver-haired cutie-pie is a lightweight.  So a bunch of random folks in London got to witness the most eccentric musician of this era drinking one of the most respected journalists of this era under the table.  Sure, everyone and their second cousins have their camera phones out when the yahoos from Jersey Shore get into another bar fight, but no one in that city thought an interesting photo-op might develop when Anderson Cooper and Lady Gaga walk in to a pub together?  Now I know where to go if I ever plan to make an ass of myself.  Londoners don’t care who you are.]]></description>
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		<title>TSA: Yer Doin’ It Rong.</title>
		<link>http://www.diamondthoughts.com/2010/11/tsa-yer-doin-it-rong/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Nov 2010 08:49:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Slurvy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[San Diego traveler John Tyner became a national hero when he told a TSA screener bearing gloves and a giant sense of entitlement, “If you touch my junk, I’m gonna have you arrested.”  And why the search?  Dude is so All-American that apple pie and baseball are shamed in his presence.  Hours later, he was released.  And so, as the Thanksgiving and the busiest traveling time of the year approaches, all of our collective junk still hangs in the balance (so to speak) while the TSA and Congress try to come up with something better.  President Barack Obama has stated that he wants to ensure our security, but to review methods to find ways that are “less intrusive.”  Left to their own devices, the TSA would have colonoscopy and “turn your head and cough” rooms for “suspicious types” like John Tyner.]]></description>
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		<title>“Lake Shore”: The Canadian HMO of Television</title>
		<link>http://www.diamondthoughts.com/2010/11/lake-shore-the-canadian-hmo-of-television/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Nov 2010 19:56:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Slurvy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tommy Hollywood is a better-looking version of The Situation, and he comes complete with diamonds on his watch, diamond stud earrings, and Ed Hardy t-shirts.  Instead of Gym-Tan-Laundry, however, he does, Gym-Tan-Six Different Hair Products.  He lists them.  Basically, all of the characters on the show are more like caricatures of Jersey Shore cast members, who are already bad stereotypes of everything that New Jersey and New York would rather hide.  It’s the rest of the US that watches.   Just as the most avid viewers of Lake Shore are likely to be from the most remote reaches of Saskatchewan and beyond.]]></description>
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