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It used to be that you could always count on Pennsylvanians to be pretty high-quality people. Benjamin Franklin, Betsy Ross, Winfield Scott Hancock, John Oates, Andrew Bryniarski, Liza Weil: credits to the Keystone State all. (Sadly, for some reason the only people the Pennsylvania magic has not extended to are US Presidents.)
But two popular stories [...]

What do these two images have to do with each other?

I say nothing, but as usual, I’m wrong.
Let’s start here: Michael Jackson’s dead. He isn’t coming back. It’s sad, but it had to be said. Sure his music will continue to live on. But as far as Michael is concerned, he isn’t coming back.
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In the fall of my junior year, I lived with a Macedonian exchange student named Orhan. He was a pleasant enough fellow, except that he was homesick and so spent all hours of the day Skyping in Macedonian. I soon grew used to this, and learned to treat garbled Macedonian as just another ambient noise [...]

Another QuickHits edition!
Don’t Buy: The Jonas Brother Engagement — This is what happens when you make a 21-year-old wear a promise ring.
Buy: Sarah Palin’s Resignation — Two reasons: 1) She went out on top with a resignation speech that was full of the folksy sports metaphors and rhetorical nonsensicals that make a Palin speech a [...]

Now, we know wacko jacko Michael Jackson is dead and many people are ignoring parts of celebrating his life. You may remember the thriller dance done by the prison inmates. To continue on from what Nate’s talking about with dem tributes. Here’s the same prison paying their respects to the jacko MJ. Which makes the [...]

Just a few months ago everyone asked “Who is Bradley Cooper?” when (false) rumors arose that he was cast as the Green Latern. But then The Hangover came out and was a box office smash, making $16.3M opening day. Now he is awesome. He is even cast along side Liam Neeson in the A-Team!
But B.C. [...]

As well all know Michael Jackson died last week, along with Farrah Fawcett and Ed McMahon. But that does not mean that every celebrity died regardless of how much as the Internet wants us to believe.
Rumor had it that Jeff Goldblum died. And Britney Spears. And Harrison Ford. And Ellen DeGeneres. The rumor mill has [...]

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You know how the media finds one quote and blows it out of proportion? Well, that’s what I am going to do here.
Stephen Moyer who plays the lame, “responsible” vampire on HBO’s True Blood had this to say about Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight vampire star Robert Patterson:
He’s a pussy! He’s the Slim-Fast, Diet Coke of vampires.
Awesome! [...]

Chuck Grassley is a United States Senator from Iowa. He has been in politics since 1959. He is a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, the Senate Committee on Agriculture and the Senate Finance Committee, of which he has twice been the Chair. He is also a grown man capable of expressing himself like an [...]