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Welcome to a special Tuesday edition of Flashback Friday: I Saw The Decade End , a milestone-anniversary salute to the New York Mets of 1969, 1979, 1989 and 1999. Each week, we immerse ourselves in or at least touch upon something that transpired within the Metsian realm 40, 30, 20 or 10 years ago. Amazin' or not, here it comes. And fans at the Polo Grounds today will be able to tell their grandchildren — they'll be the gassy old men leaning into the next century and trying to convince aCall them "cult classics." "Guilty pleasures." "Comfort movies." We all have a mental rolodex of flicks that may not be terribly popular but, for one reason or another, they resonate in a very special way. Maybe you saw it at the right moment. Maybe you just see gold where everyone else sees feces. Whatever the case, these are the special favorites that you keep stashed away for sick days. Here are some of ours. If I could redo my college thesis, I'd skip over the deformed-step-child-of-Hemin

Timeline 1946: July 22. Menachem Begin's Irgun Jewish terrorists dress as Arabs and bomb the King David Hotel, killing 92 people . The Irgun also plot to assassinate British foreign secretary Ernest Bevin ; fortunately, this conspiracy is foiled by MI6. 1948: May 14. David Ben-Gurion declares the independence of the new Zionist State of Israel, born from deception and from the blood of victims of Jewish terrorism hours before the British Mandate is due to expi

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CultureAll About Bayonetta’s FaceBy Brian Ashcraft on September 4, 2009 at 6:00 PM You know Bayonetta. She’s the star of Bayonetta. Funny how that works! We’ve already discussed about the making of her butt, let’s talk about her. She has an interesting, expressive fact. Thank Platinum Games facial animator Masanori Takashima for that.“The first thing that I set out to do was to get the right feeling for the tenderness of her mouth,” blogs Takashima. “For instance, the instant she opens her mout-By Warner Todd Huston Last week, the MyBarackObama website forced a meet-up posting down the memory hole. Obama’s Organizing For America section of his website had a posting for what was going to be a meet-up in Illinois to push Obamacare. Apparently, even the extremists that run Obama’s website were ashamed of the intemperate rhetoric in this listing and so, down the memory hole it goes. As it happens, the meet-u-By Warner Todd Huston Last week, the MyBarackObama website forced a meet-up posting down the memory hole. Obama’s Organizing For America section of his website had a posting for what was going to be a meet-up in Illinois to push Obamacare. Apparently, even the extremists that run Obama’s website were ashamed of the intemperate rhetoric in this listing and so, down the memory hole it goes. As it happens, the meet-u...or, Only a government employee could peddle this : Q: Are we winning the war on drugs in Houston? A: It's one of the toughest questions to answer. The opposing view is, “Let's make drugs legal.” I can never see that; I can't go down that route because in this job you see the human casualties, the human toll, that is brought by illegal drugs. So it's one of those prolonged wars that we're going to be fighting at least in your and my lifetime and our children's lifetime. But it's the war we n

The Great Derangement A Terrifying True Story of War Politics and Religion A REVELATORY AND DARKLY COMIC ADVENTURE THROUGH A NATION ON THE VERGE OF A NERVOUS BREAKDOWN—FROM THE HALLS OF CONGRESS TO THE BASES OF BAGHDAD TO THE APOCALYPTIC CHURCHES OF THE HEARTLAND Rolling Stone ’s Matt Taibbi set out to describe the nature of George Bush’s America in the post-9/11 era and ended up vomiting demons in an evangelical church in Texas, riding the streeThe fourth annual Brooklyn Book Festival will take place on September 13, 2009 at Borough Hall Plaza, Borough Hall Courtroom, St. Francis Auditorium and The Brooklyn Historical Society. This free event includes readings, discussions, and panels with such literary, comedic and musical luminaries as: Jonathan Ames, Paul Auster, Russell Banks, Dominic Carter, David Cross, Jonathan Coulton, Edwidge Danticat, Lupe Fiasco, Mary Gaitskill, Ben Greenman, A.M. Homes, Siri Hustvedt, Naomi Klein, Chuc

The nature of poetry has evolved since the innovation of free verse and now should allow vast latitude of expression. Too many self-appointed guardians of the realm of poetry presume to righteously define the boundaries valid for exploration, arbitrarily excluding what may not appeal to their particular sensibilities. When some of the French Symbolist poets, in particular Rimbaud, Mallarmé, Apollonaire and Valery, shattered the forms used for centuries and created free verse, resistance was autoKurt Angle, angry at Lashley’s betrayal last week, gives the Mafia a pep talk about taking out Foley and Lashley tonight. After about a million dollars worth of pyro, the Mafia comes on down to the ring. I’m not sure I completely follow this story. While Kevin Nash and Scott Steiner admittedly appear to be searching for a quiet place to die, the Mafia still have Joe, Angle and to a lesser extent, Booker T. Why getting rebuked by Bobby Lashley such a big deal? Nevertheless, Angle, paper-mache r O - zero Tasi - one Oa'u - me O'oe - you They come down the aircraft corridor with their gaping green cotton mouths, handing out the little yellow forms. Dear Sir/Madam, do

As you may know, Oprah recently stepped from the realm of pseudoscience firmly into the realm of dangerous antiscience when she decided to support antivax advocate Jenny McCarthy. The blogosphere went, well, nuts, condemning her for this. That includes me; I’m pretty ticked Oprah would put so many children in danger by giving McCarthy a platform from which to spew her nonsense. And while the blogosphere does reach a lot of people, it helps a whole lot when the mainstream media pitches in. UsPenn and Teller Bullshit S07E01 HDTV XviD-aAF Penn & Teller, the ‘bad boys of magic’ known for exposing exactly how magic tricks are done, take it to the masses in this hot Showtime series. Penn and Teller not only investigate how frauds, cons, charlatans and even officials in government operate, but they offer it with an easy to understand step by step discovery. In past episodes, the myth of lack of landfill space on the planet made for heated debates everywhere. Undercover, hidden ca

On Friday, court-watchers received some deeply depressing news — 33 pages of unconstitutional hogwash directed at the Supreme Court by President Obama’s Justice Department , in which no stone of dubious legality was left unturned in the administration’s desperate and unprincipled attempts to mimic its predecessors by preventing 17 Uighurs at Guantánamo from being resettled in the United States. This is a long-running saga, which I have reported at length over the last year, but it centeby Andy Worthington Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.andyworthington.co.uk 1 June 2009 On Friday, court-watchers received some deeply depressing news — 33 pages of unconstitutional hogwash directed at the Supreme Court by President Obama’s Justice Department , in which no stone of dubious legality was left unturned in the administration’s desperate and unprincipled attempts to mimic its predecessors by preventing 17 Uighurs at Guantánamo from being resettled in the United Sta

Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed. Author: Sir Winston Churchill What is going on this Saturday in twitter most popular comments on CAVS Maybe next year Cavs ......maybe next year Nike... um Cavs fans? WTF happeeened!? PRINCE James and his minions some FLOPS. all that damn hype. smh, what a joke. GO MAGIC!!!!! - sigh. @jf_kennedy is going to get wish. our bet was if the cavs lose, i have to root for the Lakers in the finals. UGH! @

Atlus forum website administrator chibilemonchan has posted information that PS3 RPG Demon’s Soul will be making its way to North America this fall. Many believed that due to localization it would not arrive until 2010. This is obviously good news for PS3 gamers hungry for more RPG games. ATLUS TO BRING GROUNDBREAKING ACTION RPG EXPERIENCE TO NORTH AMERICA WITH DEMON’S SOULS? FOR PLAYSTATION?3 COMPUTER ENTERTAINMENT SYSTEM Enter a world of demons and darkness, where death looms around ehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonia_Sotomayor http://abcnews.go.com/images/Politics/Berkeley_La%20Raza_2002.pdf Page 6 end of second paragraph from top: “Second, I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn’t lived that life.” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Coke “Sir Edward Coke , was a seventeenth-