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For the past five years, Josh Brolin has played a series of unlikable men: a greed-struck Texan in the Coen brothers' "No Country for Old Men," a corrupt cop in Ridley Scott's "American Gangster," an adulterous, thieving author in Woody Allen's "You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger," Harvey Milk's assassin in Gus Van Sant's "Milk," George W. Bush in Oliver Stone's "W." Read more: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303404704577305570820418702.html#ixzz1qjPS4CKY

Can anyone tell me why Art Monk is not making it into the Hall of Fame? Is it because he never grabbed his crotch to celebrate a TD? Or is it because he was never arrested? Or is it because he did not go into a career in broadcasting?

He then grabbed both ankles

WILKES-BARRE -- Luzerne County Bureau of Elections said it has been forced to deny absentee ballot applications that an official said were prompted by a mass mailing from President George W. Bush's campaign. Leonard Piazza, director of the election bureau, said Tuesday a mailing sent out by the Bush/Cheney campaign encouraged the county's absentee ballot-eligible voters to submit their applications and vote in the Nov. 2 election. Advertisement An absentee ballot application was included in the mailing. Mr. Piazza said the campaign could have received a list of absentee ballot-eligible voters from his department or a third party. He was...

There are a lot of rumours going around that one of the principal speakers at the Dem Convention is barely holding together some career threatening info. Martin O'Malley, Mayor of Baltimore, is out of the house due to an affair (or many) and reports are there may be a pregnancy. Now I have got this from two separate sources and they are reliable (and not politically hostile to O'Malley). His father-in-law is pretty powerful guy and his wife is a former judge. Anybody hear anything on this?

This was yelled at me and a couple of guys from the private road in an affluent DC suburb by some goattee wearing guy driving a Volvo. He then gave us the double bird. What is up with that? Is this a lefty, "I hate the rich" thing because they think only rich guys play golf?

Has any FREEPers noticed that CNN's web site is starting to tack to the middle? They have been relatively sane about the abuse "scandal" and are including some balance within their articles. MSNBC at the same time has lost its marbles.

This is a weird web site - I think this kid is trying to illicit ignorant responses to his ignorant rants. What do my fellow FREEPERS think