If things don't work out for Rachel Maddow at MSNBC, she could always fall back on unintentional comedy. In last week's back and forth between Fox's Bill O'Reilly and Maddow over the Sherrod controversy, Maddow criticized O'Reilly for mocking MSNBC's meager ratings while also accusing him of playing fast and loose with facts.Here's the kicker in Maddow's remarks aimed at O'Reilly, stated on her show July 22 (first part of embedded video) --MADDOW
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On Friday, the Associated Press published a shockingly partisan article about the ethics investigation against House Democrat Charlie Rangel. Instead of giving a neutral account of the proceedings, the AP sourly reported that the GOP is getting its "wish" after Republicans "wanted" an election year embarrassment to use against Democrats. The article, written by Larry Margasak with assistance from three other AP reporters, began with the word
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Officials fear the number could rise once emergency teams are able to survey devastated areas. Authorities are stepping up efforts to provide relief and rescue stranded villagers. As the death toll from this week's flash floods rose to at least 800 Saturday, authorities tried desperately to rescue thousands of stranded villagers from rooftops and deliver em
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FASTER, PLEASE: In the Future, We’ll All Wear Clothes Made by 3D Printers.

Real-time tactics evolve with StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty, Blizzard's long in the making sequel to one of the most beloved, bestselling sci-fi strategy games of all time. Oh, so you've heard of it, then? More »

The Army private charged with leaking an airstrike video and suspected of leaking documents to WikiLeaks is in solitary confinement, officials tell CNN.

This week's movie releases feature guys we love to love, but are they worth heading to theaters for? Listen in as BuzzSugar editors weigh the pros and cons of Zac Efron in Charlie St. Cloud and Paul Rudd and Steve Carell in Dinner for Schmucks.

This is why we love hula hoops. ‘Nuff said. Actually, let us just add that the lovely lady in this video is Hoopgirl, aka Christabel, a hooper from San Francisco, who is featured with many other exciting performers in the upcoming documentary The Hooping Life.

Workers find 'black box' data recorder from Pakistan plane crash that killed 152 Pakistan - Aviation accidents and incidents - Black Box - Asia - Islamabad

AFP - Suso Cecchi d'Amico, the favourite screenwriter of director Luchino Visconti best known for her work on "Bicycle Thieves" and "The Leopard", died in Rome aged 96, Italy's ANSA news agency reported Saturday.

Filed under: Apple The Apple II computer from the hit show Lost was one of the things that unfortunately wasn't really answered as the series ended. I get that the Dharma Initiative was trying to contain a leak from the source, probably because of Jughead going off, but what was up with that scene of Michael supposedly chatting with Walt? How did Walt get to a computer, and why didn't a chat ever come up any other time? I'm sure there are theorie
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You Americans have all the good stuff. Stuff like BP pumping oil in the Ocean and guns, lots of guns. And then you have Netflix and we people outside the U.S. are wondering what could it feel like to have a service like that. Now I know.

An anonymous reader writes with news that security experts from Spider Labs released a kernel level rootkit for Android devices at DefCon on Friday. "As a proof of concept, it is able to send an attacker a reverse TCP over 3G/WIFI shell upon receiving an incoming call from a 'trigger number.' This ultimately results in full root access on the Android device." The rootkit was developed over a period of two weeks, and has been handed out to DefCon
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Over 6.5 million people watched President Obama on Thursday surrounded by gushing females sitting on a couch.Tells you a lot about the state of the union, doesn't it?Of course, the bigger question is whether folks were tuning in to ABC's "The View" that day to watch Joy Behar faint in His presence or to see if the lone conservative Elisabeth Hasselbeck was actually going to ask the President a tough question.Unfortunately, those hoping for either
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The Broken Window Fallacy. [SLYT] Obligatorily, Jean-Baptiste Emanuel Zorg explains: [closes office door, places an empty glass on desk] Life, which you so nobly serve, comes from destruction, disorder and chaos. Take this empty glass. Here it is, peaceful, serene and boring. But if it is... [Pushes glass off table and crashed.] Destroyed! [robot cleaners move to clean broken glass] Look at all these little things. So busy now. Noti
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