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Breaking: Jon Huntsman can't really speak Chinese. http://t.co/cJjEKFEeTue Nov 01 15:51:29 via SocialFlow


The officially-sanctioned "only adult" in the GOP presidential field is actually a high school sophomore trying to impress his best friend's brainy older sister? If it were still October, this would be an October surprise.

NOT GOOD: Robot can walk, run, do pushups [VIDEO]: http://t.co/7LRNvp40 #welcomeournewrobotmastersTue Nov 01 18:45:15 via bitly


Why do we automatically assume the running, push-up enthusiast robot will be a bad thing? He could be just what Duke needs this year at power forward.

How the invention of barbed wire single-handedly ended the era of cowboys http://t.co/g3DRUj6WTue Nov 01 22:15:04 via HootSuite


And yet Cowboys & Aliens still got made.

The Slutty Pumpkin finally makes her debut! http://t.co/um0KGg7STue Nov 01 16:10:01 via TweetDeck


You heard it here first: this is the next Gretchen Mol.

Michael D Higgins is no poet http://t.co/f8W9c5AoTue Nov 01 13:41:24 via twitterfeed


This is what happens when Jewel gets her own column. Nobody's a poet except for her. And Skeet Ulrich, because they were in that Ang Lee Civil War movie together.

Crooks board train, make off with $200 worth of pigs' feet http://t.co/Ulhuh8prTue Nov 01 17:01:32 via HootSuite

Oh come on: they saw that in Heat.

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