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- Chicagoist was stunned when the city's bid for the 2016 Summer Olympics, widely expected to be in the final two with Rio's bid, was eliminated in the first round of IOC voting.
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Gothamist asked its readers if bicyclists should ride with the cars on the roadway—not the walkway—of the Brooklyn Bridge.
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Seattlest discovered someone worse than Glenn Beck was stopping by the Northwest to spread some craziness.
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Torontoist ripped apart an editorial in their country's most right-leaning paper, which advocated a tax on cyclists because of—among other things—the massive carbon footprints they create by exhaling all the time.
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Bostonist asked two crucial questions this week: Why does Glenn Beck hate America? and Why they gotta do Ted Williams like that?
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LAist took a look at the more lighthearted, laissez-faire side of the whole Roman Polanski raped a 13-year-old and people think he should be forgiven thing.
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DCist prepared for its city to become the next gay marriage battleground after a city councilmember announced his intention to introduce a bill to legalize same-sex marriage on Tuesday.
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Londonist noted the arrival of the first non-stop transatlantic flight from New York JFK to London's diminutive City Airport, but questioned whether it's really all it's cracked up to be.
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SFist bid summer a belated farewell with pics of the kinky Folsom Street Fair and the loudly colored Love Parade, and welcomed the fall TV season by live-blogging the premiere of San Francisco-based Trauma.



That's commie talk. No, wait, that's homosexual commie talk. No, wait, that's homosexual, commie, bigoted against-rapists talk, and anyone even thinking along these lines can go back to Russia.
Hitler. Hitler Holocaust Hitler Holocaust Hitler Holocaust Hitler Holocaust Hitler Holocaust Hitler Holocaust Hitler Holocaust Hitler Holocaust Hitler. Oh, and Hitler, you anti-Semitic fuck. Hitler.
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Obviously I should be reading the LAist as well. Fantastic way to start out an otherwise mundane and sexless week. +1
Yes. That LAist piece on Polanski was excellent.
And we all know that the law works just like Facebook: once you decide to re-friend someone, it's all good.
that's a pretty stunning photograph of that woman in chicago. the stunned disappointed expression on her face just leaps off the page.
Chicago needs a reality check: The whole world's just not that into you!
Seeing that Rio has 5 times the crime rate of Chicago and local corruption there makes Windy City Aldermen look like a bunch of choir boys, I think the decision came down to on thing...
sexy women in thongs.
honestly, the entire olympics have become a giant commercial racket, so i don't care like i used to, but it's good to see south america getting to host for the first time.
Oh darn, if only Oprah endorsed the Chicago bid with billions of dollars... Sigh...
You know "someone worse than Glenn Beck" is going to grab your attention. David Icke is beyond crazy.