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Fine Print

© John Sherffius

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Civil Rights Pioneers

© Mike Luckovich

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Wrap-up: the end of an error

Even though most people probably just want to forget about the Bush presidency (what were we thinking, anyway?), there are two wrap-ups that are definitely worth reading: The first is AlterNet’s “The 10 Most Awesomely Bad Moments of the Bush Presidency” with some outrageous lines like “One of the Bush administration’s favorite pastimes over the past […]

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Bye Bye Bush!

© Matt Wuerker

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Who will thank Bush?

© Ruben Bolling

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Will you miss him?

© Steve Kelley

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The Christmas Poop

Catalonia, Spain has a centuries old tradition of hiding a “caganer” (pooper) — a small clay figure of a person squatting with their pants down and taking a dump — in their popular Christmas nativity scenes. We won’t try to guess the meaning of this tradition, but this year Der Spiegel reports that one of […]

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Shine or Shiner?

The funny thing, this is becoming an example for the rest of the world. The Turkish manufacturer who made the original shoes thrown at Bush has received 300,000 orders for that model, which is more than four times the number normally sold each year. An Egyptian man and a Palestinian mayor have both offered their […]

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Spring Training

© David Horsey

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Shoe-gate

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Top 10 Bush Moments

From David Letterman. Pay special attention to #2. Man, the comedians are going to miss this guy.

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If the shoe fits, parody it!

Who didn’t think the intertubes would be full of parodies of the now famous shoe throwing incident. Enjoy! Austin Powers: Three Stooges: Nike: Everything, including the kitchen sink: From CQ Politics, where they have even more videos that I didn’t include. UPDATE:

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Sole Man

© Robert Ariail

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The Two Shoes

© J. D. Crowe

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Bush abandons free-market principles to save the free-market system

The winner of the prestigious award for most ironic political statement comes from President Bush, who said in an interview Tuesday that he was forced to sacrifice free market principles to save the economy from collapse: I’ve abandoned free-market principles to save the free-market system. Yes, he really did say that. UPDATE: Andrew Sullivan adds: […]

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