murkavenue:

CLUE 1:
“went to short dogs house,
they was watching Yo MTV
RAPS”
Yo MTV RAPS first aired:
Aug 6th 1988
CLUE 2:
Ice Cubes single “today was a good day” released on:
Feb 23 1993
CLUE 3:
”The Lakers beat the Super
Sonics”

We have a winner.

3:57 pm - 27 Jan 2012 - 4,794 notes
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Filed under: #music #Ice Cube

Last year Stefan Hankin of Lincoln Park Strategies threw Craig James into a statewide poll and found that James was less popular in West Texas than Barack Obama. ‘It’s not that people in West Texas don’t like him,’ said [GOP political consultant Brian] Mayes. ‘It’s that nobody likes him.’

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Ladies and gentlemen, Craig James!

Via Deadspin

1:54 pm - 27 Jan 2012
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Filed under: #politics #football #Craig James #Texas

I can’t be the first person to see this and think to himself: “But what about Pitbull? Is he banned, too?”

9:14 am - 27 Jan 2012
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Filed under: #baseball #music #Mark Buehrle #Pitbull

From the Life’s Rich Pageant file:

Horrified doctors learned of the teenager’s chronic 15-year addiction after she collapsed and was rushed to hospital struggling to breathe.

Factory worker Stacey, who has never touched greens or fruit, was found to have anaemia and swollen veins in her tongue.

Via The Awl

1:54 pm - 26 Jan 2012
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Filed under: #diet #food

Via CLT Blog

9:34 am - 26 Jan 2012
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Filed under: #politics #Bev Perdue

Prince Fielder, in front of Alan Trammell, wearing Chicago Cubs-branded Zubaz(!), a (matching?!) New York Giants t-shirt, Jordan VIes, and a Detroit Tigers cap, throwing a baseball.

This, and more great pics of young Prince at LobShots

1:55 pm - 25 Jan 2012 - 5 notes
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Filed under: #baseball #Prince Fielder #Alan Trammell

Forget seasteading. There’s already a libertarian paradise, where no one is responsible for anything but their own property, out in the California desert.

10:11 am - 25 Jan 2012
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Filed under: #politics #Slab City

Vanilla Ice goes hipster/indie

9:46 am - 25 Jan 2012
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Filed under: #music #Vanilla Ice

By the [Wall Street] Journal’s logic, if I give you a dollar and you have to pay 15 cents of that dollar to the IRS, then your tax rate isn’t 15 percent. It’s 15 percent of whatever was left after I paid my taxes, and after my friend George, from whom I won five bucks in a poker game, paid his taxes, and after his Aunt Sally, who gave him twenty-five bucks for shoveling her walk, paid her taxes, and after Aunt Sally’s customers at the local diner, who gave her fifty bucks in tips the week before, paid their taxes, and … tra la la. It’s a wonder, after all that upstream taxation, that there’s any money left at all.

— Timothy Noah on what should be, I think, the last word on the “capital gains are taxed twice” nonsense. Sure, we should find ways to incentivize investments, but the current 15% tax rate is far below historical norms.

9:15 am - 25 Jan 2012 - 1 note
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Filed under: #politics #taxes #Mitt Romney

Devin Thomas, who recovered both fumbles, told the Star-Ledger “he’s had a lot of concussions. We were just like, ‘We gotta put a hit on that guy.’ [Tyler] Sash did a great job hitting him early and he looked kind of dazed when he got up. I feel like that made a difference and he coughed it up.”

This is a fascinating angle I also want to see covered more.

10:15 am - 24 Jan 2012
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Filed under: #football #Kyle Williams #San Francisco 49ers #New York Giants