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Top 10 Videos of 2011: 9. Puddin’, “Taylor Swift”

At number 9 on this year’s list is a choice installment of Puddin’, a YouTube series whose creator describes it thus: “The setup is simple. Guy sits in an office break room eating a pudding cup. Eddie Pepitone enters, or is already there. He does something. You react by laughing, wincing, asking for your 20 seconds back, or watching over and over.” Continue reading

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Bursting from the Blogroll: Darren Hutchinson Hits the Reset Button

Over at Dissenting Justice, Darren Hutchinson makes a clear-eyed case that the current charges racism in the political health care clusterfuck are acting as a smoke screen:

I am a law professor who teaches Constitutional Law, Civil Rights, Race and the Law and other areas related to equality. I have spent nearly two decades researching and writing about race relations and public policy. With respect to the rightwing attacks on President Obama, however, I find the issue of race largely uninteresting.

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