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 Obama's Fiftieth Week in OfficeLatest Additions to "The List""The List" for 1/8/2010Umar Farouk AbdulMutallab, the man charged with trying to blow up a Northwest Airlines plane on December 25, pleaded not guilty Friday to six federal chargesMilitary members serving overseas will have to resubmit their voter registration this year if they hope to cast a ballot in the November midterm elections.MIT economist Jonathan Gruber, one of the leading academic defenders of health care reform, is taking heat for failing to disclose consistently that he was under contract with the Department of Health and Human Services while he was touting the...

Marking the fiftieth anniversary of its debut in Japan, a crisp clean print of the original uncut Japanese version of the first Godzilla movie is being released in the United States. What a long strange journey it has been for the beast. First came monstrous box office success in the 1954 Japanese domestic market, followed by a quick sequel the next year (later released in the Unioted States by Warner Brothers as Gigantis, the Fire Monster). Then, translation to an Americanized version starring Raymond Burr, featuring new English language footage inter-cut with original, much longer film (especially the rampage through...

Meet Joe Dirt Stuart K. Hayashi In 2001, comedian David Spade came out with a movie titled "The Adventures of Joe Dirt." It now appears that the film was about Joe Conason, the author of "Big Lies: The Right-Wing Propaganda Machine and How It Distorts the Truth" and an editorialist for the liberal-biased Salon.com. In the person of Brad Pitt, you've already Met Joe Black. Now Meet the Real Joe Dirt. His book purports to expose how right-wingers harness the corporate media to brainwash society. Instead of demonstrating such, however, Joe is too busy flinging his Dirt around. In two...