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Tuesday, December 1, 2009

News The Morning News

Posted by David Schmader on Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 8:08 AM

Suspected Cop Killer: Finally caught, fatally shot.

The Urge to Surge: Obama to expedite deployment of 30,000 more American troops to Afghanistan.

Rape Doesn't Pay: Roman Polanski remains in jail while trying to come up with $4.5 million bail.

Neither Does Crazy On-Court Cussing: Serena Williams fined $82,500 for lashing out at U.S. Open lineswoman.

No Fair: Killer on Florida's death row dies of natural causes.

Fourth Time's a Charm?: Rush Limbaugh announces forthcoming nuptials.

Elizabeth Hasselbeck Sued for Gluten-Free Copyright Infringement: And the photo accompanying the news item makes her head look weird. She's also wearing the most laborious pro-McCain t-shirt you'll ever see.

It's Too Bad This Item Concerns Hinduism Instead of Buddhism, Because Then I Could've Used the Title 'Grodysattva': Hindu sacrifice of 250,000 animals begins with decapitation of thousands of buffalo in Nepal.

No, #1 Is Not 'Google': Top 10 Bing Searches for 2009.

Finally, today is World AIDS Day. To commemorate, here's a late-career gem from an artist who's been fighting AIDS since before you were born (or at least since the early '80s, when the disease robbed her of a lot of her friends). Also, it's been an awful few days, and this song cheers me up. Enjoy.

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How do they have the top ten searches for 2009 if there's still a month left in 2009?

Posted by care bear on December 1, 2009 at 9:12 AM

What? Nothing about the guy in California trying to get a measure on the ballot to make divorce illegal?

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34209592/ns/…

Posted by Urgutha Forka on December 1, 2009 at 9:31 AM

Much as it wrecks the fun of the headline - the #1 search on -any- search engine is "Google" and various misspellings following behind, with stuff like "free sex" and "free mp3" following behind.

Lists like the one Bing just released are made by taking the queries from 2009 and subtracting out the stuff that's always the same, year after year, and sanitizing for things that PR wouldn't approve of. They're interesting, but they're not actually a reflection of what's most often typed in that little white box.

Posted by SEO on December 1, 2009 at 10:08 AM

"...before you were born?"

Jus' how old do yous think we are Mr. Schmader???????

Posted by Keekee on December 1, 2009 at 10:17 AM

So Rush can get married 4 times and I can't get married even once? Nice.

Posted by very bad homo on December 1, 2009 at 10:43 AM

Roman frigg'n Polanski can't make $4.5M bail? I'm a frigg'n upper-middle-class working stiff and I could nearly make a $4.5M bail. (A bail bond typically requires collateral worth 10% of the bail amount.) No wonder these Hollywood-types are such fans of the welfare state -- they can't manage to save any of the millions they are making.

Posted by David Wright on December 1, 2009 at 12:40 PM

@6- He's in a different country, which certainly has different rules for bail bondage.

I'm surprised they offered him bail at all. He has a bad track record with that.

Posted by dwight moody on December 1, 2009 at 1:16 PM