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Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail

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Take one terrible photo of Hilary Clinton. Post to Something Awful, and watch the photoshop competition take off. Priceless.

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Sow What?

"The Reaping" *1/2 (out of four): Incoherent mess about the ten biblical plagues afflicting a small Louisiana town marks another poor post-Oscar choice for Hilary Swank who deserves – and should know – better.

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It's always the same. A formerly devout skeptic investigates strange happenings that can only be explained through faith and a few well-chosen bible verses. “The Exorcist” may have done it best thanks to some witty Priest vs. Satan banter, and TV’s “The X-files” made a pretty good run at this premise for seven seasons (“Millenium”, not so much). The latest trip to the seemingly unending end-of-days trough is "The Reaping", a mildly incoherent stab at bringing the ten biblical plagues to the big screen. Hilary Swank stars, in another questionable Oscar follow-up (“The Black Dahlia”, “The Core”), as Katherine Winter, a former minister who (wouldn’t you know it) lost her faith after the tragic (and entirely preposterous) death of her husband and daughter. Working now as a professional miracle-debunker at Louisiana State University, Katherine is called to the small town of Haven to investigate a river which, you might say, is suffering from a form of “red tide” poisoning.

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I Would Not Vote For This Guy

The Mayor of Cincinnati throwing out the ceremonial first pitch.

[Via Bill Simmons]

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A Family Obsession


This documentary is called The Most Hated Family in America, broadcast on BBC 2. I was curious enough about the title to watch. It’s about The Westboro Baptist Church, which I’m familiar with, but I didn’t know that just about all the church members are in minister Fred Phelps family! They certainly are obsessed with sex, to the exclusion of The Great Commission. The entire show is loaded onto YouTube in parts (this is part one). You can find all seven parts here.

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Lunch Hour Veg

Wrestling week continues! Classic wrestling matches from the '80s, today on the veg.

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Wednesday is New Comics Day

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The new JLA meets the new JSA
Vertigo Splendor
Madman and the end of the world
Another Joss Whedon comic!
The long-awaited complete Elk's Run


Every Wednesday we run down the 5 most interesting comics and graphic novels that come out this week. These are the 5 books I'd be buying myself but I got scammed out of my comics money on a cruel April Fool's day joke this week.

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