I do mean hate. [Link removed.] See update.

I don't like the guy's manner. I think he's an arrogant asshole. And while he once was a watchable actor-prospect, he burnt out before he could make it in the majors and is coasting in AAA franchise on name recognition alone.

But.

I don't have anything really personally against the guy.

This site does. I've seen Hitler biographies that were more charitable. (To be fair, they were written by David Irving.)

Damn, I don't know who writes this site, but you can bet they do know Caruso personally, because no one gets this angry at a stranger.

Thanks to AliceH.

Weird: David Caruso has always made me laugh for his sunglasses off/sunglasses on acting style and his stepping out of frame on every single exit line.

But here is his executive producer from CSI: Miami actually busting his chops for the same thing.

I didn't know you were allowed to make fun of your star.

Creepy: JackM. points out that that hate site has some of Caruso's more personal information. I trust none of you care enough about David Caruso to need or want that information.

UPDATE [Dave in Texas]: below the fold. Goofy string of Caruso sunglass moves and YEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGHHHHH! more...

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Defining censorship broadly, I mean. It's like refusing to assign a book a dewey decimal code.

How big do you have to be to earn the wrath of the United Nations and Internet giant Google?

If you're journalist Matthew Lee, all it takes are some critical articles and a scrappy little Web site.

Lee is the editor-in-chief, Webmaster and pretty much the only reporter for Inner City Press, a pint-sized Internet news operation that's taken on Goliath-sized entities like Citigroup since 1987.

Since 2005, he's been focusing almost entirely on stories that deal with internal corruption inside the U.N., posting several stories online almost daily.

He's been especially interested in the inner workings of what could be called the practical-applications arm of the international organization, the United Nations Development Programme.

Many of Lee's stories were featured prominently whenever Web users looked for news about the U.N. using the powerful Google News search engine, a vital way for media outlets both large and small to get their articles read.

But beginning Feb. 13, Google News users could no longer find new stories from the Inner City Press.

"I think they said, 'If we can't get this guy out of the U.N., let's disappear him from the Internet,'" Lee said.

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Lee said he felt certain that the Internet company and the international agency had now joined forces to make his work less accessible to the public.

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According to Stricker, on Feb. 1 someone e-mailed Google a complaint about Lee's Web site, alleging that Inner City Press was a one-man operation, thus violating the Google News ground rule that news organizations it lists must have two or more employees.

Lee is vague about how many people work for the Inner City Press, but said there's at least one woman who works for the organization full-time, as well as "about half a dozen" volunteers.

"If people work for us as volunteers, why does it not count?" he said. "Is it their business?"

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The reaction to the de-listing, however temporary, has been furious. The non-profit Government Accountability Project lambasted the company, calling Inner City Press "the most effective and important media organization for UN whistleblowers."

"We're alarmed," said Bea Edwards, GAP's international-program director. "The question is, is what user sent the complaint? And it's probably not too hard to guess. We would guess the complaints came from the UNDP."

Not to bitch, but Google apparently employs this rule almost exclusively to exclude right-wing blogs and news-sites. A lot of left-wing sites would be "one man operations" but for volunteer cobloggers, but they're listed. Try finding this one.

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Not from Hillary's campaign itself, but still a metaphor, or some other gay shit.

More from Hot Air, rounding up a pair of truly excrescent Mike Huckabee fan videos.

Politics is pretty embarrassing, isn't it? Or maybe this sort of real, cringe-making true believerhood.

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Facts are stupid things.

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Jeese Louise, I did it again.

Discuss amongst yourselves: Do you really think Everyone Loves Raymond, or is that an exaggeration?

I was throwing stupid questions at someone last night, and then I decided to parody myself by asking really stupid questions like "Do you like milkshakes?" and "What part of the cow is the "jerky" beef?" I got no laughs from this, but I thought it was funny. Just asking questions that a retarded, stoned four year old would.

I don't know -- stupid question thread?

Answer to the Raymond Question: Leoncaruthers gets it right here, I think:

I don't love Raymond, ergo the premise of the show is flawed in its conception. Also, I never got the sense that Raymond had really forgiven himself for the sins of his youth, and thus was unable to truly love himself. Was that the real depth of the show, that truly, no one loved Raymond?

Hmm... makes you think.

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This is pure desperation. She has no chance to woo any substantial number of these, if any, but she's attempting to posit some sort of barely-plausible theory by which she can still conceivably win.

Hillary ClintonÂ’s presidential campaign intends to go after delegates whom Barack Obama has already won in the caucuses and primaries if she needs them to win the nomination.

This strategy was confirmed to me by a high-ranking Clinton official on Monday. And I am not talking about superdelegates, those 795 party big shots who are not pledged to anybody. I am talking about getting pledged delegates to switch sides.

What? IsnÂ’t that impossible? A pledged delegate is pledged to a particular candidate and cannot switch, right?

Wrong.

Pledged delegates are not really pledged at all, not even on the first ballot. This has been an open secret in the party for years, but it has never really mattered because there has almost always been a clear victor by the time the convention convened.

But not this time. This time, one candidate may enter the convention leading by just a few pledged delegates, and those delegates may find themselves being promised the sun, moon and stars to switch sides.

“I swear it is not happening now, but as we get closer to the convention, if it is a stalemate, everybody will be going after everybody’s delegates,” a senior Clinton official told me Monday afternoon. “All the rules will be going out the window.”

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“Delegates are NOT bound to vote for the candidate they are pledged to at the convention or on the first ballot,” a recent DNC memo states. “A delegate goes to the convention with a signed pledge of support for a particular presidential candidate. At the convention, while it is assumed that the delegate will cast their vote for the candidate they are publicly pledged to, it is not required.”

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But one neutral Democratic operative said to me: “If you are Hillary Clinton, you know you can’t get the nomination just with superdelegates without splitting the party. You have to go after the pledged delegates.”

Sounds like she's already planning to lose today's contest in Wisconsin.

I almost feel bad for her.

More: Pathetic. Whining about how she overcame her Grrl-itude and shot a duck.

Another victim of Hillary's vicious ambition.

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Sony risked destroying the PS franchise by bundling it with Blu-Ray.

But it worked.

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Today, the great state of Hawaii goes to the polls. On the Democratic side, there are 20 delegates at stake in that race. For comparison purposes, great all-important New Hampshire only offers 22.

And yet, no one is mentioning Hawaii. It's all "Wisconsin this" and "Texas and Ohio that". I, for one, refuse to allow this slight to continue. I mean, really. Where would you rather be? Madison freakin Wisconsin surrounded by fat, pasty, cheese-gargling moonbats, or Honolulu, Hawaii surrounded by sexy hula dancers? That's what I thought.

Sure, Hawaii is Barack Obama's home state. And he should win convincingly. But does that mean we should ignore this primary? Of course not. You know who wants you to forget about it though? Hillary Clinton. You don't want to be played by Hillary Clinton do you?

Of course you don't. So let's give a shout out to our countrymen on the Islands. After all, they gave us Don Ho, Jack Lord, a bitching TV theme song, and the coolest ferrari driving Private Investigator of all time.

So here's to you, Hawaii! May Pele keep the lava at bay (except in Clinton strongholds). This is one haole who would never forget you.

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A Florida church has challenged its married parishioners to have sex every day for thirty days.

Church member Tim Jones and his fiancee agreed to take on the challenge, though he acknowledges it'll be a tough month.

But he added: "I think it's worth trying to find out other things about each other."

I am keen not to discourage this.

However.

It's an idea that sounds like fun but probably turns into drudgery for all but the most creative people. Just speculating.

If any AOSHQ couple out there wants to take the 'challenge,' let us know how it goes....in vague, broad terms shrouded in metaphor, please, for the love of God.

UPDATE: Related video from L. VonSchtupp below the fold. more...

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Commenter TJ mentioned this last night in the sea critters thread.

The Philippine military has exhumed what it believes is the body of Dulmatin, an Indonesian militant wanted for the 2002 Bali bombings that killed over 200 people.

The US had offered a $10 million dollar bounty for him. They suspect he'd been in the southern Phillipines since 2003. Where they peacefully grow pineapples, play yard games and engage in light-hearted philosophical discussions and poetry reading sessions.

I guess his poems sucked.

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