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POPSMachine translation or Faulkner? Here is a quiz where you have to decide whether a passage was written by William Faulkner OR is just a computer translation of a German text. I got 50%. Via Scott Horton at Harper's
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POPSEmbarrassing Michelle Malkin video Michelle Malkin dons a cheerleader outfit to chant L-O-S-E-R to describe Democratic opposition to the Iraq war. If this is the best argument she can muster for the Iraq war, then the cause truly is dead.
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POPSConservatives: Nicer than Christ The secular left is... a rogue gallery of freaks, geeks, nuts, sluts, slick politco’s and skanky ho’s If only. Via Nicole Belle at Crooks and Liars
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POPSRick Santorum "wrestling" ad Eve Fairbanks calls this the worst political ad ever: What is the most wrong image you could imagine pairing with the virulently anti-homosexuality, pro-family-values Santorum for a campaign spot? Jacked, glistening men in Speedos lustily wrestling each other, you say? Well, that's exactly what we've got here!
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POPSAmerica's Dumbest Congressmen My favorites: Senator Jim Bunning (R-KY) making up an excuse to do a debate with his opponent over a satelite linkup, allowing him to read from a teleprompter Senator Conrad Burns (R-MT) telling law enforcement officials to be wary of Arabs who "drive taxicabs by day and kill at night". Representative J.D. Hayworth (R-AZ) approving of the nativist writings of notorious anti-Semite Henry Ford Representative Donald Young (R-AK) telling high school students that the NEA funds art depicting "buttfucking" Representative Katherine Harris (R-FL) telling voters that a Middle Eastern terorrist was arrested trying to blow up the power grid of Carmel, IN (which came as a surprise to Carmel's mayor and to Indiana's governor). Also: Harris telling her staffters that a speech they had submitted to her was "terrible"--even though it was written by herself two months earlier!