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Somewhere in the back of my mind I hear:

Stop, collaborate and listen
Ice is back with a brand new invention
Something, grabs a hold of me tightly
Flow like a hawk move daily and nightly
Will it ever stop? Yo I don't know
Turn off the light, and I'll glow
To the extreme, I rock the mic like a vandal
Light up the stage and wax a chump like candle

OK, that was off the top of my head. It's too bad these teenagers don't realize they're aping a style pioneered by one of the most ridiculed rappers of all time. That could put a swift end to the practice.

Found at The Daily Eudemon.

* This is not Centennial in Champaign.

via Fra Angelico

From Steve Sailer:

President Borat! That's better than anything Mark Steyn has come up with.

Phillipines preschool director takes kids hostage to demand more funding.

"It is exceedingly unlikely that shareholder groups can do a better job of hiring directors than search committees and the professional executive search firms on which they rely."

Phil Kerpen of NRO, writing two weeks after Home Depot had to shell out nine figures to get rid of their failed CEO, has come out squarely against owners having rights. The AFSCME wants to be able to nominate candidates for AIG's board of directors. Kerpen calls this a "threat to Capitalism." To Kerpen, for a 3% stake-holder to throw out a name that still has to be voted on by the owners of the other 97% is the first step on the long, slippery road to socialism.

The problem of course is that Kerpen is not as much troubled by owners having rights as much as he is appalled and horrified that those who labor and sweat on behalf of corporate America only to have their companies go bankrupt and their pensions flushed down the CEO's platinum pisser actually could have a say in corporate governance.

So, the question is... just what does stock ownership mean if not having a say in who runs the company?

Firm contracted to build border fence busted for hiring illegal immigrants.

More proof that nobody actually responsible for border control takes it seriously.

Please forgive me a spat of technophobia as I note with fear, loathing and stomach-churning horror that Google, Intel, BP (?), Wal-Mart (!!!) and Pitney Bowes are all salivating at the opportunity to get in on the barely-nascent medical records market.

Yes, that's what we need, Google, archiver of all every search request you perform, getting their hands anywhere near medical data.

My heart... my heart....

The Economist has analysis of recent "values" debates in various European countries. Missing from their analysis is any mention of Pope Benedict XVI and his ongoing efforts to restore Christian values to the center of Europe's identity.

This is for Mama-Lu:

BBC story on death of Litvinenko, with a number of additional stories linked on the side.

More from the NYTimes.

Bird flu comes one step closer to wiping out humanity.

The Economist has a preview of an upcoming exhibit at the Getty Museum in Los Angeles that will feature items from Egypt's Holy Monastery of St. Catherine, home to Orthodox monks living their vocation in the Sinai desert.

Here is the Webpage of the exhibit.

And he has a new album. Here he is on NPR playing some some of his oldies.

Man shows up at Dallas playground with "adult" pictures, receives a**-whipping.