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Do you think Generation Dean and Generation Lieberman ever get together and throw raging keggers?

People I hate, entry No. 47: Nazis.

Going through Olympics withdrawal already? Well, if you are looking for something else that is pointless, boring and anticlimactic, there’s this thing in New York that might interest you. I am, of course, talking about the Marlins-Mets series at Shea.

Nineteen days until Dick.

“Baby Geniuses 2” failed at the box office this weekend. I don’t even know how to begin to compose a joke that lives up to the fact that someone actually made a sequel to “Baby Geniuses.”

When I first read in the Chicago Tribune that Kyle Farnsworth kicked a fan, I was certain that it was human and not electric. Ironically, this might be the only time this season that he was on target when trying to hit something. Too bad it was a machine using an electric motor to rotate thin, rigid vanes in order to move air for cooling and not the strike zone.

All right, I’ll take one shot at it. Donald Rumsfeld is now under more fire for his role in the Abu Ghraib torture scandal. A memo secured by the Associated Press revealed Rumsfeld ordered prisoners to view “Baby Geniuses 2.” They begged to be stripped naked and humiliated relentlessly instead.

OK. The old man told me to take any rug in the house.

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