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Which American accent do you have?
Northern
You have a Northern accent. That could either be the Chicago/Detroit/Cleveland/Buffalo accent (easily recognizable) or the Western New England accent that news networks go for.

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A 13-year-old reporter asked Obama, "Red Sox or Cubs," to which he responded, "Neither."

Like, duh. Guy's from the South Side. She might has well have asked him, "Mitch McConnell or Orrin Hatch?"

I wonder if she meant "White Sox or Cubs?" or if she was just asking about perpetually cursed teams.

Copy this sentence into your livejournal if you're in a heterosexual marriage/relationship (or if you think you might be someday), and you don't want it "protected" by the bigots who think that gay marriage hurts it somehow.

I read a great quotation from Albert Brooks in an essay where he imagined a McCain presidency ( Read more... )

I'm tired of hearing of the so-called "liberal media bias." Yes, it existed once upon a time. But no more ( Read more... )

I haven't done one of these in a while. So I figured--what the hell!

Rory O'Shea Was Here--Completely paint-by-numbers script. Anyone with half a brain can figure out the entire story from the premise. Two young men meet in a nursing home. One, Michael, has severe cerebral palsy and has spent his entire life in an institution. The other, Rory, is ( Read more... )

In an article online today, CNN published the following sentence ( Read more... )

Here it is. It took me longer than I anticipated, but I'm satisfied with it for now. I'm also pleased that, unlike everyone else in the universe, I managed to get through a discussion of Black Book without mentioning the "dyeing the carpet to match the curtains" scene. (Of course, I just mentioned it. Oh well. I guess it's impossible not to comment ( Read more... )