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Turn on the news (Faux if you must), and all you see is anti-Muslim rhetoric about the Mosque (that is not a Mosque) at Ground Zero (that really isn't ground Zero), and talking head after talking head spewing forth the most heinous bile venom about how they have no right to put up their cultural center that close to Ground Zero. Then people wonder why there is an increase incidence of violence against Muslims.

I know that we have the freedom of speech here in this country, but something about not being able to incite a riot or violence against others comes to mind. Well, thank goodness there is someone like Stephen Colbert who can put this stuff in perspective for us....

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I'm the Deputy Democrat Registrar of Voters in my hometown, so voting is something of a serious issue to me. Needless to say, when Walt showed me this story, it simply made me shutter. Apparently in Harris County, TX, there was something of a small blaze that destroyed the county's entire inventory of 10,000 electronic voting machines still burned.

Houston Fire Department spokesman Patrick Trahan said arson investigators were at the scene of the fire, but no cause has been determined.

The three-alarm blaze started about 4:15 a.m. at the football field-size warehouse the county uses to store its election equipment. Firefighters extinguished the flames about four hours later.

No injuries were reported.

The county’s voting machines, including eSlate equipment, were stored at the nearly 27,000-square foot facility, county officials said.

Early voting begins Oct. 18. Election Day is Nov. 2.

You can read more about this story here, or view the video after the jump.

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I so totally can't stand Glen Beck, and I make it a point to never (if at all possible) watch this ass-hat's program. However, I do so enjoy when Jon Stewart so expertly skewers Beck, as he did the other night on The Daily Show.

Seriously, you would think that anyone who spends more than five minutes watching Beck's verbal vomits, could clearly see that he is not only a tool, but that he contradicts himself.

Don't believe me? Watch the clip after the jump, and see...

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Yeah, we do so love vampyres, xombies, and werewüves over here at Cuppacafe, but when we discovered this little "Shakespearean" gem, we very nearly wet ourselves...

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One of the richest areas for mining movie material has always been literature. It is probably a safe bet to say that more prose books have been translated into movies than any other previously-published source material. Still, perhaps the most (shall we say) "unusual" form of translation is when a writer takes a previously-published source and then spins it sideways to have it come out as something, well different than the original form.

A couple of prime examples of this are when Rogers & Hammerstein took Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet, and turned it into West Side Story or when Amy Heckerling took Jane Austen's novel Emma and (re)made it into Clueless.

Anyways, very soon, there is yet another tome that will be added to these films, it is a epic fantasy adventure involving Dragons, and is based on one of the most seminal works in all of English literature.

Herman Melville's Moby Dick. No, really, I'm not kidding. check it out after the jump.

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OK, so you all know that we've been following Jon Stewart on The Daily Show, as he skewers Faux News on their coverage of the Islamic Community Center that is sort of close to Ground Zero, and you all saw the other night how he was able to (using Fox's own "logic") link the man behind the Mosque to Fox News itself.

Well last night, Stephen Colbert took it all a step (hilariously) further when he not only took us all into his Terror Bunker 5200, but further on down the rabbit hole as he traced the money even further down that Faux News "logic"...

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