Value of Dollar, Snark, Dropping

This may not be the best place to approach actual tragedy, but, in case you didn’t already here this:
Wal-Mart Employee Trampled To Death on Black Friday
This actually happened. Ugh.

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Happy Thanksgiving from Brooklyn Skeptic

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The Five Most Ridiculous Things to Happen This Season on True Blood

Several of us here at Brooklyn Skeptic have been following the new HBO Series True Blood, which deals with modern-day vampires in Louisiana who are “coming out of the coffin” due to the invention of a new synthetic blood that vampires can drink in lieu of biting people. From the get-go, the show has been clunky, [...]

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Weekend at the Movies

Bolt
The Plot: A dog star is shipped from a Hollywood soundstage to New York, and he thinks that the plot of the TV show he’s on is real. Also, your dreams of a Travolta/Miley Cyrus collaboration have finally come true.
Is It Worth Eleven Dollars?: Normally I like my animated films to be Pixar and Pixar [...]

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Connections: Sarah Palin and Justin Timberlake

Right now, you’re asking yourself, “what on earth does a gun-toting, hokey-loving, horseman of the apocalypse have to do with a twinkle-toed merry-maker?” If you would just turn your attention to the following evidence, I’m sure you’ll have no problem figuring it out:
Watch me.
There were a few weeks there when critics heralded the inevitable demise [...]

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Gap Makes it Official: Christmas Will Indeed Be Taking Place This Year

Ah the Christmas Gap ads. See your favorite stars (like um…Jason Biggs and uh…Sandra Bernhardt) dance around to festive tunes in front of a white background, while sporting knit sweaters and scarves. Nothing says the holidays quite like the guy from Six Feet Under playing We 3 Kingz (they added a “z” to let you know that [...]

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Weekend at the Movies

Quantum of Solace
The Plot: James Bond is pissed off. Seriously, why’d you have to go and piss off James Bond?
Is It Worth Eleven Dollars?: Most probably. In what is surely the most puzzling film title since Synecdoche, New York (and by the way Sunshine Theater, please don’t correct my pronunciation, especially when you’re wrong), Daniel [...]

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Puppies Will Save the World.

There’s a live streaming web cam video (I have no idea if I said that correctly) of six puppies up on the web. A San Francisco couple set up the site to keep an eye on these heavenly little creatures. People are going nuts over these puppies, though. Have you seen them? [...]

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Democracy, Obama Coax Me Out of Hiding

My soul, once hardened and foul, like the crust on dirty dishes, has been soaked (in democracy), scrubbed (with voting) and it sitting ready in the drying rack of my heart.
Yes, I did miss writing impenetrable metaphors.
Now that we Americans can once again claim that we value our ideals, our country and the rest of [...]

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