“I’m trying to find the words to describe this girl without being disrespectful.”

Oh, Akon, you are such a gentleman.

“Nothing you can compare to your neighborhood Ho.”

Oh, stop!  You are too kind.

Harry Reid: Give Me One Reason to Stay Here

I honestly don’t understand where the lines are in discussions of race in this country.

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This morning, Pulitzer Prize winning reporter and respected rationalist, Chris Hedges, levied a brutal assault against the corporate citizen’s moral code (or frightening lack thereof) that seems set on consuming every decent and egalitarian institution this country has left.

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Enlightening video about one of the lesser known advanced species around.

This week, BLDGBLOG featured Remnants of the Biosphere, a series of portraits of what was once one of the most ambitious scientific projects in human history. Biosphere 2, constructed in the Arizonian desert, was billed as the first large scale enclosed eco-system designed by humans. It is now little more than a run-down tourist center.

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Yesterday, our Digital Overlords (Google Corp) released a new “superphone” that may change life on this planet as we know it…

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Though this story is still developing, it seems clear that a portion of Interstate 5 will be uninhabitable for some time.

For you football/physicists out there, here’s a fascinating evaluation of New Orleans Saints’ QB Drew Brees.

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I’ve always been a fan of anagrams and palindromes. So has University of Portland Prof Aziz Inan (pictured above).

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Happy Twenty Ten. For those of you too lazy (or annoyed by obligatory tradition) to conjure a New Year’s Resolution, here’s an auto-resolution generator.