Representin’ Ewok and the Signifyin’ Jive
Posted on | July 17, 2013 | 39 Comments
Shocking Thuggery from @AceofSpadesHQ: "Hell, I love a good hoodie." http://t.co/sSYap0ZBpC Another vapor-huffing Ewok hoodlum! #tcot
— Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) July 17, 2013
Inside jokes about Ace’s resemblance to the cuddly creatures of The Return of the Jedi are a sort of signification — an advertisement of tribal membership — in the same way I sometimes get all redneck when I’m angry and start quoting The Outlaw Josey Wales.
The AOSHQ Moron throws out the inside jokes like a Crip throwing gang signs, letting his fellow Morons know he’s one of them. Tribal membership requires one to represent — to conform to the ethos of the tribe, to defend the tribal honor, and to attack the enemies of the tribe. Belonging to the tribe confers certain benefits on the members, although these benefits may not be apparent to outsiders. Nevertheless, the valuable prestige of the tribe requires these signifying and representing customs.
Sociologists and anthropologists understand this and, if you followed the 2007-09 meltdown of the Little Green Footballs tribe, you recall that the key turning point was when Ace — tiring of Charles Johnson’s phony act — decided to throw down on that mofo.
There was a sort of blogger “street smarts” involved there. As full of crap as I have sometimes been, God forbid I should ever be so full of crap that Ace decides to blow me up. It’s like pissing off Dan Riehl — there are some errors a smart blogger avoids.
“Street smarts” aren’t especially common among elite journalists, because the path to an elite journalism career doesn’t usually involve cutting school to go get high with your hoodlum buddies — you’ll never make it to Harvard that way — and the uptight culture of the elite journalism tribe isn’t a place where a former teenage dopehead feels especially comfortable.
All of this is a lengthy preamble to Ace’s reaction to a Richard Cohen column about the Travyon Martin case. Ask yourself this: Why did George Zimmerman think Trayvon looked “suspicious,” “up to no good,” “on drugs or something”? Ace explains why understanding the signification factor is essential:
Among the poor — poor whites, poor blacks, poor Hispanics, poor “White Hispanics” — there is a big difference between the Aspirational poor and the Accepting poor. A poor person who advertises himself as a striver, an achiever, is not usually perceived as a threat.
A poor person, on the other hand, who signals himself as part of the sad, cynical, violent thug culture — and every race has some version of this — is perceived as a threat. I might not be able to see a white guy’s Neck Tattoos and Iron Cross earring at the same distance I can spot someone’s skin color, but the moment I do see the Neck Tattoos and Iron Cross earring, I am in fact labeling that guy as “Likely threat, seems to advertise his identity as being based in Prison Culture. Do not approach.”
There is a very big difference between people who advertise themselves as I’ve Got Nothin’ to Lose and those who advertise themselves as I Do In Fact Have Something to Lose. The fact that the latter sort of person has skin in the game himself makes him nonthreatening — he’s not comfortable with impulsive life-changing criminal decisions either.
But the first sort of person is all but advertising he doesn’t think much of his own life and therefore, of course, doesn’t think much of others’ lives, which is the dangerous thing. . . .
Go read the rest at Ace of Spades HQ, or ima f–k you up, mofo.
Thug Life with @AceofSpadesHQ: Straight Off the Means Streets of the Wrong Side of the Forest Moon of Endor! http://t.co/sSYap0ZBpC
— Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) July 17, 2013
Just Another Law-Abiding Citizen of Beautiful Downtown Realville
Posted on | July 17, 2013 | 90 Comments
“Fred, I’m gonna be very honest with you here: People like you are a problem. . . .
“You can get mad at me because I’m pointing things out, but you’re just getting mad at fact, and you’re making extrapolations or interpretations that I didn’t make nor intend. I’m not trying to distract anybody. I’m the mayor of Realville — and what I mean by that is, I live in the world of reality.
“The truth is all I care about.”
— Rush Limbaugh, July 16, 2013
Having been mentioned two days in a row on the most popular radio program in the world is kind of cool. All I did was write a 700-word summary of reporting and research, most of which had previously appeared at The Last Refuge a.k.a. The Conservative Treehouse.
“People like you are a problem,” Rush told his caller Fred yesterday and, as usual, Rush was absolutely right. Outsource your thinking to the media, jump to a conclusion based on what other people are telling you, and then refuse to consider the possibility that there may be facts that contradict the pre-fabricated conclusion you have been spoon-fed by a pack of hired liars. Above all, never pay attention to the demonstrable pattern of deception, the way in which all the artful falsehoods and deliberate distortions point you toward the same political prejudice: Vote Democrat!
Are these media people ideological liberals, or are they just Democrats? How do we distinguish liberal bias from crude partisanship?
You have to wonder about that, when you see everyone on CNN nodding in agreement while Rachel Jeantel recalls how she warned Trayvon Martin that the “creepy-ass cracker” George Zimmerman might be a gay pedophile predator.
Holy stereotypes, Batman! On what planet do liberals so much as acknowledge the possibility of the existence of gay pedophilia? But let this lecture be delivered by a 19-year-old black high-school dropout — “Run, Trayvon! Dat creepy-ass cracker gonna rape you!” — and all the “liberals” react as if this were the apex of wisdom.
Try to imagine if something like this had been said on CNN by a Republican politician or some redneck Baptist preacher who talked like Larry the Cable Guy. Outrage! Homophobia!
But when Rachel Jeantel says it, Piers Morgan doesn’t bat an eye, his liberal audience nods in agreement, and anyone who points out that Rachel Jeantel is an idiot . . . RAAAAACIST!
There’s no way to win. If you point out the double-standards and hypocrisy, this only proves you’re a “right-wing extremist,” see?
Liberals are always like Fred, who objected to Rush Limbaugh’s reference to the facts of Trayvon Martin’s juvenile criminality. They’re prejudiced — they’ve bought into the pre-fabricated conclusion — and your attempts to enlighten their benighted minds are rejected as signifying that you are a bad person, because only bad people dispute the liberal worldview that leads to false conclusions.
Bad motives (mala fides) are always ascribed to conservatives. You must be a racist, a sexist, a homophobe or some other kind of evil person, says the liberal, or otherwise you’d be liberal, too. And that kind of “argument” (the scare-quotes necessary because these are not actually arguments in the sense of formal logic) is entirely acceptable to people who have never set foot in Realville. (No low-information voters here.)
The problem, of course, is that liberals dishonestly attempt to persuade us that they possess a monopoly on intellectual prestige. It’s like the global-warming consensus: If you carefully purge from the ranks of “respectable” scientists everyone who disagrees with the consensus — demonizing dissent — then it becomes possible to say with a straight face that All Respectable Scientists Agree.
“The science is settled!”
And it’s a goddamned tautology.
Whatever happened to skepticism, huh? Whatever happened to the admiration of intellectual curiosity and the mischievous idea that perhaps the status quo Conventional Wisdom is wrong?
Why, for example, are educated people willing to accept without question the idea that what happened to Trayvon Martin can only be explained as a consequence of racism? Is it not possible that Trayvon’s own ignorance contributed to his death? Even if we stipulate that George Zimmerman was wrong to pursue Trayvon — “We don’t need you to do that,” as the 911 dispatcher said — was this teenager completely without fault in that fatal encounter?
Three days after a jury declared Zimmerman not guilty of murder, CNN continued its wall-to-wall coverage of the case Tuesday, misinforming its audience about basic facts. Over and over, CNN’s hosts and commentators brought up Florida’s “Stand Your Ground” law, despite the fact that this law enacted in 2005 had nothing to do with the Zimmerman trial. But issues that may have a lot to do with the trial, the networks are willing to ignore. The one thing that CNN and the rest of the media establishment have refused to discuss is the path that brought a teenager to his fatal encounter with the neighborhood watch captain of that townhouse community in Sanford, Florida.
Trayvon Martin was not from Sanford, Florida. This is perhaps the most important fact of the entire story, in part because it may explain why the teenager was so disturbed at being followed by George Zimmerman. Trayvon was from Miami Gardens, the largest majority-black city in Florida, where the population is 76 percent black and 22 percent Hispanic and “creepy-ass crackers” are quite rare. Crime is commonplace in Miami Gardens — the crime rate is about 70 percent higher than the national average — and Trayvon Martin was one of the criminals. . . .
Please read the whole thing at The American Spectator.
Welcome to Realville, where the laws of logic are strictly enforced. Rush Limbaugh is the mayor, and I’m just a law-abiding citizen.
LIVE AT FIVE: 07.17.13
Posted on | July 17, 2013 | 10 Comments
— compiled by Wombat-socho
TOP NEWS
Liz Cheney To Primary Mike Enzi For Wyoming Senate Seat

Our new Dark Lord – er, Lady?
Enzi also announced plans to seek a fourth term
Senate GOP Caves After Reid Threatens Nuclear Option
Cordray approved for CFPB immediately
Snowden Applies For Asylum
Completed and submitted paperwork for temporary asylum
POLITICS
Eclectic Group Joins Electronic Freedom Foundation In NSA Suit
The new NSA data facility in Utah
Case is First Unitarian Church of Los Angeles et al v. NSA et al
San Diego Mayor Won’t Resign Despite Harassment Charges
Activists Warn Immigration Reform Will Cost Blacks Jobs
LTG Caslen Takes Over As West Point Superintendent
Texas Executes Man For Murder During 2002 Robbery Attempt
NLRB To Get New Nominees, Replacing “Recess” Appointments
Philly Targets Lap Dances For Tax Revenue
THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Bloomberg Has No Idea Why Oil Prices Fell, Resorts To Technical Jibber-Jabber: NYMEX $105.29, Brent $107.71
Coca-Cola Profits Hit As Global Economy, Weather Misbehave
Gold Tiptoes Lower, With Bernanke On Deck
PRC’s Holdings Of US Treasuries Set Record As Investors Sell
US Consumer Prices Jump In June
Pilot Reaches Agreement With Eight Trucking Firms On Diesel Rebates
Google Discussing Own Web TV Service With Media Companies
Apple’s “Kill List”: The Words Your iPhone Won’t Correct
AT&T And T-Mobile Would Like To Remind Customers That Phones Cost Money
Intel Snaps Up Gesture-Computing Firm Omek
Infinity Blade II Nabs Nearly Six Million Downloads During Apple Promotion
SPORTS
Rivera Enters Early, Helps AL To Victory, Wins MVP

An ending to savor
Comes on in the eighth, sets down NL 1-2-3 after receiving standing O from crowd alone on the field
Junior Circuit Holds NL To Three Hits In 3-0 All-Star Shutout
Security Flattens Idiot Yankees Fan (BIRM)
Nike Apologizes For Panthers T-Shirt Goof
Five Important Questions Heading Into SEC Media Days
Miami Heat Amnesty Mike Miller
Lolo Jones Goes From Hurdling To Bobsledding…To Bar Fight?
Florida QB Hog Hunting When Drafted By Red Sox
Dwight Howard Has A Few Things To Say About His Time With The Lakers
Nationals Best Trade Deadline Move? Standing Pat
FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
Emma Roberts Arrested On Domestic Violence Charges

She broke his nose?
Evan Peters gets bloody nose and a bite mark from his GF
Cory Monteith Overdosed On Heroin, Booze
Adam Levine Engaged To Behati Prinsloo
Stacy Keibler Opens Up About The George Clooney Breakup
Robert Downey Jr. Tops Forbes List Of Highest Paid Actors
Some Rapper You Never Heard Of Is Suing Over “Spring Breakers”
Jenny McCarthy Is Spreading Sickness And Death Throughout The West
Ralph Macchio Hits The Red Carpet With Actress Daughter Julia
Lindsay Lohan Getting $2 Million To Spill Her Guts To Oprah
Former Oasis Frontman Target Of Paternity Suit Over Love Child
Hugh Jackman Dismisses Gay Rumors
FOREIGNERS
Gunmen Assassinate Assad Supporter In Lebanon
Arrest Could Break Zeta Cartel’s Hold On Mexico
Bangladeshi War Criminal Gets Death Penalty
New Egyptian Cabinet Has Women, Christians – But No Islamists
Panama Seizes Nork Ship Smuggling Military Hardware
Earthquake Strikes Southern Peru
20 Children Die After Eating School Lunch In India
French Police Arrest Neo-Nazi Breivik Supporter
BLOGS & STUFF
Valley Of The Shadow: Senator Reid And The Crying Game
American Power: Idiot Leftists Define Race Riots Down
Power Line: Obama’s DOJ Demagogues The Zimmerman Case
Jammie Wearing Fools: DOJ Sets Up Zimmerman Snitch Hotline
Atlas Shrugs: Desperate DOJ Asking For Tips To Help Prosecute Zimmerman
NRO Corner: “There’s No Such Thing As Black On Black Crime”
Legal Insurrection: Feds Want Zimmerman Any Way They Can Get Him
Jason Riley: Race, Politics And the Zimmerman Trial
Allahpundit: Potential Black Juror Excluded From Zimmerman Case For Watching Fox News?
Jihad Watch: Rolling Stone Glamorizes Boston Marathon Jihadi Murderer
Chicks On The Right: Just Another Day In The Soulless Life Of Jay Carney
Lonely Conservative: Carney Denies Obamacare Keeps Companies From Hiring Full-Time Employees
Deadspin: We’re Going To Have Keith Olbermann To Kick Around Again – On ESPN2
Israel Matzav: Bolton – “Israel Should Have Attacked Iran Yesterday”
Weasel Zippers: Marine Who Urinated On Taliban Corpses Has No Regrets, Would Do It Again
According To Hoyt: The Future Is Yours To Dream
YOUR LINKS. I WANT THEM.
#ZimmermanTipLine He Fronted ‘Blue Oyster Culture Club’ On Their ‘Do You Really Want To Hurt Me, Godzilla?’ Tour
Posted on | July 16, 2013 | 23 Comments
by Smitty
#ZimmermanTipLine Was hiding at the NTSB under the name "Tso Wut" when KTVU called to get the names of the pilots in the SF crash.
— Smitty, JokeCracka (@smitty_one_each) July 17, 2013
#ZimmermanTipLine Knows every line Steven Segal ever uttered.
— Smitty, JokeCracka (@smitty_one_each) July 17, 2013
#ZimmermanTipLine Framed both Bernie Madoff AND Jon Corzine. "Made enough money to buy Miami, but he pissed it away so fast."
— Smitty, JokeCracka (@smitty_one_each) July 17, 2013
#ZimmermanTipLine Likes to sing whiny karaoke by that other famous Zimmerman.
— Smitty, JokeCracka (@smitty_one_each) July 17, 2013
#ZimmermanTipLine Advised Harry "the Cadaver" Reid to use "the unclear option" to break the filibuster impasse.
— Smitty, JokeCracka (@smitty_one_each) July 17, 2013
#ZimmermanTipLine Still hasn't taken down his Christmas lights.
— Smitty, JokeCracka (@smitty_one_each) July 17, 2013
#ZimmermanTipLine Suspected Brony
— Smitty, JokeCracka (@smitty_one_each) July 17, 2013
#ZimmermanTipLine Both owns a ukulele and has bubbles his beer that are non-tiny.
— Smitty, JokeCracka (@smitty_one_each) July 17, 2013
In summary:
I hope George Zimmerman is reading #ZimmermanTipLine and getting a belly laugh or three out of it, after the #CrapNado he has endured.
— Smitty, JokeCracka (@smitty_one_each) July 17, 2013
Inspired by MSNBC
Posted on | July 16, 2013 | 40 Comments
Because I don’t want to leave the blog going stale while I crank out another 1,500 words, I’ll share a few thoughts that crossed my mind as I was sitting here with the office TV on MSNBC.
Al Sharpton was once briefly in the same room with the Truth, But the Truth walked out the minute he noticed Al walking in.
— Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) July 16, 2013
FACT: Al Sharpton is an irresponsible hate-hustling charlatan whose stupidity is exceeded only by his dishonesty.
— Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) July 16, 2013
American-hating Commies burn flag in Oakland. http://t.co/yJBG89zU60 Hate back twice as hard. @AmPowerBlog @vadum #tcot
— Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) July 16, 2013
Panel of idiots on MSNBC having a deep discussion of hoodies. I'm not kidding. @alexwagner
— Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) July 16, 2013
MSNBC: I Watch It, So You Don't Have To.
— Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) July 16, 2013
@Mekbeth8 There's like a zen discipline to watching MSNBC, where you learn to resist the constant urges to stab people in the face.
— Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) July 16, 2013
‘The Greater Good’: Heretical Facts vs. the Myth of St. Trayvon of the Blessed Hoodie
Posted on | July 16, 2013 | 151 Comments
Trayvon Martin: ‘And by this sign shall ye know me …’
Pete Da Tech Guy on how the system failed Trayvon Martin:
After all what’s the life of a single black man, the safety of individuals, the policing of schools or doing your job compared to the greater good of appearing politically correct, getting the right stats, financing the grievance industry or electing Democrats?
Well — “How dare you?”
The Politics of Indignation practiced by Democrats requires quite a great deal of narrative management, and relies on the cowardly unwillingness of Americans to speak the blunt truth. We are offered an iconic martyr — St. Trayvon of the Blessed Hoodie — by the High Priests of the Temple Cult and if we fail to mimic their superstitious ritual, if we do not reverently genuflect before this sacred symbol of innocence . . .
“How dare you?”
Our Moral Superiors have become so accustomed to preaching such sermons to their worshipful congregations that the slightest expression of skeptical impiety seems to shock them.
Only within their sanctuaries of belief, where none but the voices of the faithful are heard, is it possible for Edward Wyckoff Williams to expect to be taken seriously when he writes nonsense like this:
If there is no justice, there can be no peace. But in the American South it seems white folks suddenly believe that decorum and charm are a proper response to unspeakable acts of violence and unconscionable injustice.
The day before a jury delivered an acquittal in the murder trial of George Zimmerman, Seminole County Sheriff Don Eslinger and Sanford Police Chief Cecil Smith gave a national press conference to appeal for a peaceful reaction to the verdict — regardless of its outcome.
Eslinger, who is white, said, “We will not tolerate anyone who uses this verdict as an excuse to violate the law.”
The veiled threat of an aggressive police response to imaginary civil unrest belies the very logic that led to Trayvon Martin’s death to begin with. For, you see, African-Americans are never protected or served by the law enforcement apparatus — yet they are always subject to its military might.
Sanford police coyly “tolerated” the actual killing of an unarmed black child, but yet refuse to “tolerate” any anger expressed for the acquittal of his murderer.
This is the new Jim Crow realized. . . .
(It’s 1963 and Sanford, Florida, is rural Mississippi.)
President Barack Obama is not immune — as he’s become the target of incessant “white rage”: race-baiting attacks, prejudice and bias even prior to his election. The Republican Party and its neo-Confederate Tea Party wing has been committed to invalidating his political and legislative legacy as much as the Zimmerman jury invalidated the civil rights of Trayvon.
The counterfactual conflation of distinct phenomena and the deliberate misuse of grossly inappropriate historical analogies are errors of rhetoric and logic that we are not supposed to notice, much less to point out and refute. Facts and logic are unwelcome within the Temple of St. Trayvon of the Blessed Hoodie, and common sense is heresy.
Trayvon Martin, a lanky 6-foot-tall 17-year-old dopehead, is miraculously transformed into “an unarmed black child,” and the testimony and evidence indicating that Trayvon deliberately waylaid the neighborhood watch captain must be disregarded.
Similarly, we are expected not to notice how little Seminole County, Florida, resembles “the American South” that Williams invokes.
Sanford is a 30-minute drive from downtown Orlando, and 45 minutes from Daytona Beach. Seminole County has a population of more than 400,000 residents, the vast majority of whom were not born there, but are transplants from elsewhere, including retirees from up North as well as many immigrants (11.5% of the county’s population were not born in the United States). The median home value in Seminole County is $225,500 and the median household income is nearly $60,000. This prosperous suburban community, however, Edward Wyckoff Williams offers us as emblematic of “the American South” (newsreel footage of Klansmen burning crosses) as though he were discussing some backward poverty-stricken redneck crossroads town in Appalachia.
Edward Wyckoff Williams does not tell you any facts about Seminole County, nor does he mention that Sanford Police Chief Cecil Smith was hired from Elgin, Illinois. And Sheriff Eslinger — “who is white,” Williams points out — is scarcely an ignorant hillbilly:
Sheriff Eslinger has 33 years of service with the Seminole County Sheriff’s Office. His career began in 1978 as a Radio Dispatcher and he advanced through the ranks as a Patrol Deputy, Criminal Investigator, Special Operations Investigator, Watch Commander, Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) team leader, two tours with the Federal Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) as a Task Force Agent; and returning as Commander of the City/County Investigative Bureau. At the time of his appointment, Sheriff Eslinger held the position of major, third in command of the Sheriff’s Office.
Sheriff Eslinger earned his Bachelor’s Degree in Applied Behavioral Sciences from National Louis University and is a graduate of the Federal Bureau of Investigation National Academy in Quantico, Virginia. He also attended the Florida Department of Law Enforcement Chief Executive Institute in Tallahassee, Florida and the National Academy of Corrections – U.S. Department of Justice.
Neither of the two law enforcement officials whom Williams offers as symbolic of “unconscionable injustice” would seem to fit the profile. But the martyrdom myth of St. Trayvon of the Blessed Hoodie is crafted entirely of such shoddy fabrics, and if the reality of Seminole County doesn’t match the myth, well, damn those pesky facts!
Democrat Rep. Luis Gutierrez wants the House Judiciary Committee to hold a hearing on the Trayvon Martin shooting, which would be an excellent idea, seeing as how the House of Representatives is one of the few major institutions in America controlled by the Republican Party.
Trayvon’s parents cry in front of the cameras, and we are supposed to ignore the fact that they got divorced when Trayvon was 4 years old, and that Trayvon’s mother kicked her son out of her house because he was so impossibly unruly. Most of all, nobody can mention that Trayvon wasn’t even from Sanford, that he was only in Sanford because (a) his father was dating a woman who lived there and (b) Trayvon had been suspended from his high school 240 miles away in Miami-Dade County.
All these facts we might ignore — for “the greater good,” as Pete says — were it not for the fact that liberal lies inspire fools to action:
Witness claims youths yelled
‘this is for Trayvon’ in beating
A half-Peruvian neighborhood watch captain in Sanford, Florida, shoots a teenage dopehead from Miami and, because Our Moral Superiors insist that this is a matter of national importance, some innocent guy in Baltimore gets beaten up by a gang of thugs?
Yeah. That makes perfect sense — it’s the New Normal.
No Justice. No Peace. No Facts. No Logic.
When You’re Doubled Over In Agony, Your Guts Are ‘Sploding And #ObamaCare Has Broken Our Medical System, Watch This
Posted on | July 16, 2013 | 29 Comments
by Smitty
Remember, boys and girls: triumph begins with visualization and a peppy soundtrack:
(rest in) Peace Through Bureaucracy
via Rare
LIVE AT FIVE: 07.16.13
Posted on | July 16, 2013 | 7 Comments
— compiled by Wombat-socho
TOP NEWS
Harry Reid Says Senate “Broken”
Vows to limit filibuster
Top Islamist Ghulam Azam Sentenced To 90 Years For War Crimes
Masterminded atrocities during 1971 Bangladesh War of Independence
Mexican Marines Capture Alleged Chief Of Zetas Cartel
“Z-40” taken in Anahuac on the Nuevo Leon/Tamaulipas border
POLITICS
Spitzer, Weiner Coming On Hard In NYC Races

Eliot Spitzer and Anthony Weiner
Leading Democrat primary races for comptroller, mayor
LA’s Zimmerman Demonstrations Continue Into Third Day
Petraeus Now A Dollar-A-Year Man For CUNY
Charleston WV Welcomes Boy Scouts To Jamboree
Bush The Elder Toasted By Obama
Nixon Aide Leonard Garment Dies, 89
Pentagon Report Finds Flaws In Sex Assault Probes
California Lawmakers Want Answers On Prison Sterilizations
THE ECONOMY, STUPID
WTI Trades Near Three-Day High As Oil Stockpiles Seen Shrinking: NYMEX $106.06, Brent $108.81
Twinkies Make “Sweetest Comeback”
Stocks Gain On Earnings As Treasuries Rise On Retail Data
Nissan Brings Back Datsun Brand With Go Car
Consumers Hold Back, US Retail Sales Moderate
Interesting: Ray Ozzie Joins HP Board
Surface Watch? Microsoft Allegedly Testing “Translucent Aluminum” Smart Watch
Apple Crawls Back To Samsung For iPhone Processors
Bill Gates: The College Lecture Is Dead, But Microsoft Bob Isn’t
Apple Investigates Report Of Electrocution by iPhone
Ad Netwrks Strike A Blow Against Online Piracy
SPORTS
A’s Yoenis Cespedes Beats Nationals’ Bryce Harper To Win Home Run Derby

Launching the bombs
Hits 17 in first round, finishes with 32
Real Madrid Tops Forbes List Of Most Valuable Franchises
Matt Harvey To Start For NL In All-Star Game
Kovalchuk Inks Deal With SKA St. Petersburg
Metta World Peace Heads Home, Signs Two-Year Deal With Knicks
Chip Kelly: Vick Will Have To Earn QB Job
Nolan Ryan: Manny Ramirez Could Be An Option For Rangers Soon
MLB’s Biogenesuis Squeeze Little More Than Legal Version Of Hidden Ball Trick
FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
Kelly Osbourne’s Engaged!

Matthew Mosshart and Kelly
It’s official!
Cory Monteith: Alcohol, “Substances” Found In Room Where He Died
Carly Rae Jepsen’s First Pitch At Rays Game Goes Awry
Gabourey Sidibe Pranks Jimmy Kimmel, Wears Bridal Gown To His Wedding
Anti-Vaccination Loon Jenny McCarthy Joins “The View” As New Co-host
Stranded Dave Mathews Hitches Ride With Fan
Dina Lohan: Oprah Winfrey Will Be Lindsay’s Mentor
“Despicable Me 2”, “Grown-Ups 2” Beat “Pacific Rim” At Box Office
Is Fox Teasing A “Predator” Reboot?
Could “Doctor Strange” Be Too Big For Marvel?
Doctor Says Randy Travis Awake And Alert After Stroke
Radiohead’s Thom Yorke Slams Spotify
Kirstie Alley “Livid” At Leah Remini For Leaving Co$
FOREIGNERS
Aussie PM Rudd Outlines Plan To Terminate Carbon Tax In 2014
Putin Wants Snowden To Leave, But Hasn’t Ruled Out Asylum
Burma To Free All Political Prisoners By Year’s End, President Says
Spanish PM Refuses To Resign As Scandal Deepens
David Cameron Accused Of Betraying Syrian Rebels
British Woman Dies Trying To Swim Channel For Charity
Uttarakhand Missing Now Presumed Dead; Death Toll From Floods Over 5,000
Gay Marriage Clears House Of Lords
BLOGS & STUFF
First Street Journal: The George Zimmerman Trial And The Philadelphia Inquirer
Twitchy: Race-Baiting Salon Article Sparks Hilarious Outbursts Of #WhiteRage
Volokh Conspiracy: Provocation And Self-Defense
Stephen Green: We’ve Only Just Begun To Race-Bait
American Thinker: More Lies From The Mainstream Media About The Zimmerman Case
JustOneMinute: NYT Editors On Zimmerman Acquittal – Keeping The Dream Alive
Allahpundit: Holder Tells Audience He Shares Their Concern Over Zimmerman Verdict
Power Line: An Early Look At The 2014 Senate Battleground
Legal Insurrection: Schweitzer Backs Out
Jim Geraghty: Democrats Still Seeking Anyone To Run Against GOP Senate Incumbents
Conservatives4Palin: National Journal Doesn’t Understand Why MSNBC’s Ratings Are Plummeting
Questions & Observations: Unions On Obamacare – “This Vision Has Come Back To Haunt Us”
Sister Toldjah: My Heart Bleeds For Big Labor. Really, It Does.
Bryan Preston: DOJ Hits Gallup With $10.5 Million Fine For Doing What DOJ, Obama Administration Do
