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Compared to the decapitations and the torn-open torsos, compared to the infant that was cut in half and then each half impaled upon a sword, to the geysers of blood that shot out at least thirty feet from severed limbs - compared to the general carnage, the music seemed pretty extraneous. How seriously are you supposed to take guitar riffs and drum beats at an event billed as the Intergalactic Wrestling Championship?

Millions of dollars are being spent polling the country to predict who will have the opportunity to take the helm of a country that has been ridden hard and put away wet for the last eight years. But for as much attention has been devoted to voters throughout America – Republican, Democrat, independent and especially the undecideds, to whom both Palin and Biden have offered everything up to and including oral gratification if they’d just get down from the fence – one vital demographic has been overlooked. Level 70 Alliance paladins.

The latest version of the bailout bill being voted on tonight in Congress doesn't just amount to lipstick on a pig. It's Rush Limbaugh smothered in fetid road kill.

Even as Wall Street continued its end run into a cold nuclear winter's meltdown, leading some former investment bankers to seek comfort in the

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