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"That's more than can be said for Ann Curry of MSNBC and NBC, whose reports from Japan have had a whiff of Kent Brockman."

--Matt Zoller Seitz, salon.com

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The national reaction to Jackson's death was false and overblown, but it didn't hurt anyone. Moreover, at least Jackson could boast of actual achievements. But Sarah Palin's bizarre resignation is another story. Watching her self-serving, celebrity-driven implosion, it hit home more than ever just how terrifying it is that this person actually could have become vice-president of the United States.

-- Gary Kamiya, salon.com
http://www.salon.com/opinion/kamiya/2009/07/09/jackson_palin/

"It was like a dessert served on the Holodeck."

--Sarah Hepola describes the non-entity that is the McDonalds sundae, salon.com

"It's like teaching a man to fish so that he can eat fish every day instead of giving him a reloadable gift card for fish," says ask_captainjack.

"Killer robots and polar bears — now I see what "The Book of Daniel" lacked!"
--Maureen Ryan writes in the Chicago Tribune about faith in network dramas.


(The Book of Daniel is out on DVD, and well worth a look.)

"The reason we've never used the Raptor in Iraq is it doesn't work in places where there are wars."

--Chris Kelly, huffingtonpost.com

Let's be honest: Thursday night Bush sounded like a kid reciting the high points of fourth grade, or a challenged patient graduating to a new level in some kind of mental health rehab institution. No one could watch that and not be shaken by it. I've had my political disagreements with my friend Chris Matthews, but he summed it up really well: It was an abomination, the depiction of a world of presidents in which "every kid gets a trophy who participates."

--Joan Walsh on salon.com
http://www.salon.com/opinion/walsh/misc/2009/01/16/bush_farewell/index.html

"The stress hormone cortisol peaks in your blood around 7 am. So if you get up then, you may experience tension."
--wired.com

Do rage and despair count as tension?

Sex-Crazed Apes Feast on Killing, Too

"As hippies had Altamont, so bonobos have Salonga National Park, where scientists have witnessed the supposedly peace-loving primate hunting and eating monkey children."

--wired.com