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Ah, the clever criminal masterminds in my ol’ neighborhood. I bet he used a color overlay in Photoshop:
Pursuit Suspect Tries to Trick Police with Quick-Change - KTLA.

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ABC News: Exclusive: Inside Account of U.S. Eavesdropping on Americans.
Despite pledges by President George W. Bush and American intelligence officials to the contrary, hundreds of US citizens overseas have been eavesdropped on as they called friends and family back home, according to two former military intercept operators who worked at the giant National Security Agency [...]

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Listen while you read: “Flashing Lights” - Kanye West
This story of Kanye vs. Paparazzi is burning up the wires! From the AP:
Airport police arrested [Kanye] West and his road manager, Don Crowley, who also serves as a bodyguard, on suspicion of felony vandalism shortly before 8 a.m., LAX spokesman Marshall Lowe said. He said early [...]

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Not sure where I live anymore. This is sobering.
Massive police raids on suspected protestors in Minneapolis - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com.

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Our old friends at CSC Security got rough with a fan at the Bowl at a Radiohead show, then noticed they’re being filmed. Key quote: “That shit’s going to be on YouTube. We gotta get that tape.”  That led to a chase of  filmographers off Bowl propery, down Highland and into traffic. Upon catching them, [...]

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Listen and read: “Copy Cat” - P-Funk All Stars
Never up on politics as much as I should be, I’ve always thought of  Joe Biden as “that guy who plagiarized his speeches” in the 80s. “What a jerk,” I thought. But, shame on me for letting a single incident color my judgment of the man’s long [...]

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Music to read by: “Cameras in California” — Kirk Wheeler
“Thanks for nothing,” I say to the editor who writes headlines like “Photog Allegedly Assaulted 3 Aspiring Models“  This salacious story of a man arrested for allegedly luring girls to motel rooms under the premise of photographing them to make them stars — only to then [...]

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The video in this blog post makes me wish I was smart enough to have gone to law school. (I never even made it through college, so that’s a non-starter.) I may have to make an MP3 of this. Intelligent rational people cheer me up, especially when they’re great communicators. Yes, even when [...]

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While it may seem that just about anybody can rob a bank, you do have to at least keep your gun out of the hands of the other bank customers. “Can you hold this for a second while I put this cash in my “$$$” sack?” But, really — bank patrons ganged up on this [...]

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Ian Curtis’ Gravestone Stolen | Pitchfork
Has anyone thought to ask Microsoft marketing? They may be borrowing it for a promotional Zune event.
Would you put it past them? It’s another creepy chapter in the creepiest digital music merchandising ploy ever.

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