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Guantanamo sadists ramping up torture as closing approaches (updated, unfortunately)

Reuters reports that the “interrogators” at Guantanamo fear that their opportunities to abuse Muslim detainees will diminish as the deadline to close the military hellhole approaches. The reaction has been an increase in detainee torture:

Abuses began to pick up in December after Obama was elected, human rights lawyer Ahmed Ghappour told Reuters. He cited beatings, the dislocation of limbs,…

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World’s Best Radio Station Wants Money For Pizza and Toilet Paper… (With urgent plea from Station Manager Ken)

…among other broadcast essentials, like transmitter movement and higher rent. Your chance to support WFMU, home of Beware Of The Blog, Doug Schulkind, DJ Monica, Mr. Finewine, Billy (The MAN) Jam, Trouble, DJ/Rupture, Glenn Jones & X-Ray Burns, Station Manager Ken, $mall Change, Kevin Nutt, and a host of all-stars:

As sometimes happens, the code of my blog is battling…

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Stand By Me

The Ex recommended this video. Quite lovely, plus it counterbalances my usual bitter…

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Alec Baldwin’s superbowl commercial

Just in case I’m not the only person who missed this brilliant turn (and thanks to the wife for bringing it to my attention, mad Alec Baldwin fan that I…

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Rupert Murdoch strikes again

Consider the various Fox and Murdoch media properties; bags of shit, every one of them.

The latest example is from The New York Post, a Republican comic book inhabiting the dead body of a newspaper.

See, there’s this chimp in Connecticut that goes berserk and gets shot by the cops, and there’s the stimulus bill. What a natural pairing, eh?

Several people have taken issue with this….

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Old Jews Telling Jokes

Check the website for…

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Joe Cuba, R.I.P.

In 1967, Mount Vernon High School (4000 students) adopted “Bang Bang” by The Joe Cuba Sextette as our informal anthem; every morning for weeks, it played on the PA system as we screwed around by the lockers and filtered into homeroom.

I never forgot it. It was one of the first records on my want list when I started buying records in the 1980’s, and I still play it out. Cheo Feliciano…

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Hiphop in China

Cool vid, cool…

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Jon Stewart on Fox after TWO DAYS of Obama

These people are serious scum.

(My apologies for the crazy coding; apparently something has gone haywire with the way this shows up on my blog. Please ignore and focus on the video.)

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And before we leave the subject of the inauguration forever…

…let us consider what a truly historic moment this was:…

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