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Nate Silver: “Coakley’s odds are substantially worse than they appeared to be 24 hours ago”; Brown a 3-to-1 favorite – http://bit.ly/7nw66U.

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GOOOO IRISH, BEEEEAT ORANGE!!! http://bit.ly/4pJJIX

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Coast-to-coast pro-Coco rallies: “What do we want?” “Conan!” “When do we want him?” “11:35 p.m!” http://bit.ly/7wyGbs

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This morning, our 2-year-old daughter climbed onto Toby (one of our 3 cats) and announced to Becky: “Ride little pony, Mommy!” LOL.

By Brendan Loy

This clip does a better job of absolutely burying Jay Leno than even Jimmy Kimmel could — and it’s all from Jay’s own mouth, six years ago.

You gotta watch the whole thing. The last 35 seconds are the best part. “I don’t want to see anybody ever have to go through that again.” Oh really? Maybe someone should send him this clip.

Jay’s 2004 Announcement – watch more funny videos

Despite being a long-time Letterman & Conan fan, I’ve actually felt that Jay has been getting too much blame in this whole fiasco, when Jeff “Darth” Zucker and his fellow NBC executive knuckleheads are the real villains. But watching this video makes me realize that, no, actually, everybody else is right: Jay’s a villain too. If he wanted to put up a stink about being pushed out by NBC, the time to do it was back in ‘04. But he didn’t, because he knew exactly what would happen if he did: broken friendships, huge ego battles, a massive clusterf*** of controversy. We know he knew this, because he said it himself, on air! Yet five years later, when put-up-or-shut-up time arrived, Jay seemingly forgot all of that. Now, instead of heeding the better angels of his nature — on display in this clip — he continues to ignore his own sound advice. By reversing his decision to bow out gracefully, Jay has become exactly the person he promised he wouldn’t: the guy who refuses to leave until someone carries him out on a stretcher. A stretcher made of money. Lots and lots of money.

(Hat tip: Hot Clicks, via @slmandel and @DrSaturday.)

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RT @slipperstillfit Wow. Gonzaga enters the Top 10 in this week’s Coaches Poll! http://bit.ly/3qpVkK

By Brendan Loy

In keeping with my Martin Luther King Day tradition…

MP3 File

I highly recommend taking 17 minutes out of your day to watch/listen to the whole thing.

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CNN Breaking News — Explosions and gunfire shake Kabul early Monday, with the Taliban saying it is conducting an operation.