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The AIDS Walk is not about me. Whatever it represented for me when I was younger was simply the feelings of a scared kid, feelings I've clung to as a way of continuing to build distance between where I am and true, ultimate self-acceptance.
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What in the world is Piers Morgan thinking? This is our next great interviewer? This is our next Larry King? The contemporary of Bill Moyers and Charlie Rose?
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A recent study by the infectious disease division of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's microbiology department has indicated that STD rates among the nation's Dungeons and Dragons, or D&D, players is holding steady at 0 percent.
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The Romney campaign runs against crony capitalism:

Politico fact-checks:

Romney’s campaign takes liberties: lumping in facts with conjecture, citing job losses without mentioning that many of them occurred in Europe and Asia and vaguely charging that somebody’s “friends and family” wound up with taxpayers’ money. Rather than being failures, some of the projects mentioned in the ad have actually been purchased by major energy companies. Of course, the ads’ main facts about Solyndra aren’t in dispute: The California solar manufacturer did indeed get a $535 million DOE loan guarantee and subsequently go bankrupt. 

American Crossroads echoes Romney's attack that targets "public equity President Obama": 

As the presumptive GOP nominee cozies up to Donald Trump in Las Vegas, the Obama camp invokes nostalgia for their previous opponent's leadership - and relative restraint: 

Alex Burns weighs the strategies: 

Romney's trying to discredit Obama as a steward of the economy. Obama's trying to discredit Romney as a strong leader. It's a familiar pattern. ... The message in the Romney video isn't a new one for Republicans to be delivering, but some of the details -- risky investments, large-scale layoffs -- sound a little different in the context of Democratic attacks on Romney's time in private equity. Returning fire by going after Solyndra (and similar companies) could be where Romney's Bain pushback goes next.

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judgecorp writes "Paul Chambers, the Briton whose joke on Twitter backfired, will be back in court following a legal stalemate, after more than two years. Chambers joked about blowing up South Yorkshire's Robin Hood airport in January 2010, and was arrested and fined for 'sending a public electronic message that was grossly offensive or of an indecent, obscene or menacing character.' His resultant criminal record lost him his job as an accountant. Now his appeal has been heard, but the two judges disagreed with each other, so Chambers will be back in court again."

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There are lots of inexpensive ways to hang up your bike, most of them involving floor-to-ceiling contraptions. This DIY bike hanger is a simple pair of hooks you screw into the wall to get your bike off the floor. Well, it's really just old bicycle handlebars. More »

You’ll have so much fun at So Much Pun!

Drudge's take:

So Romney will let this fester. NRO was both coy and damning.

PORTLAND, Ore. — Isaac Lamb acknowledges that his five-minute, block-long choreographed build-up to a marriage proposal has upped the stakes for everyone who follows.

"Guys, I'm sorry," he said on NBC's "Today" show Tuesday. "That wasn't my intention."

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