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• Chuck Colson, Richard Nixon's former aide, Watergate co-conspirator, and prison Christian, died at the age of 80.
• A military wife finds out about her husband's death through Facebook.
• Carey Mulligan married one of the guys from Mumford & Sons, thus ruining hearts of hipsters across the world.

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• An open discussion of the worst heroic leads.
• Canadian Jesus, Justin Bieber, hilariously taunts former alleged baby mama on Twitter.

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• Just in time for Earth Day today, performance artist, Alison Knowles, made a big ass salad.

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• Listen to Mastodon cover The Flaming Lips for their Record Store Day single.
• Above: Neutral Milk Hotel gets the Pen & Pixel/No Limit Records treatment (via)

Love him or hate him, there's no arguing that Bill Maher can certainly get a rise out of people, particularly when it comes to poking holes in political ideology. Last night, he ended Real Time with the keen observation that Republicans are basically waging a war against common sense, but not before taking some pretty good jabs at folks who probably deserve them.

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In a gross display of injustice, enlisted rape victims have gone public in stating that the military branded them "crazy" and had them discharged. With a lawsuit pending and an upcoming report on CNN, this publicity will hopefully lead to a policy change or a public firing of military officials.

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Without fail, Hillary Clinton has been one of the better Secretaries of the State in recent presidencies as she's able to roll with the punches of being a meme and be articulate enough to put foreign policy makers in their place. With all that in mind, it's assuring to know that she wants to dance to a Nicki Minaj jam like most Americans.

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Art student Andy Bell constructed this 3'x4' portrait of George Zimmerman out of Skittles, the candy that Trayvon Martin was carrying when he was shot.

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Republican legislator Rep. Virginia Foxx (NC), cares nothing for your student loans because you don't need to borrow money for higher education. To wit (from Foxx herself): "I have very little tolerance for people who tell me that they graduate with $200,000 of debt or even $80,000 of debt because there's no reason for that. We live in an opportunity society and people are forgetting that."

So if we've learned anything from Republicans this election year, it's [insert controversial statement about birth control here] and they don't want to pay for your education, so get a job and pay for it yourself.

[thinkprogress]

Newt (really?) Gingrich said of opponent Mitt Romney today on Fox, "[F]ar and away the most likely" Republican nominee, yet he hasn't announced conceding. Oh well, at least he still has that cushy Speaker of the House job, oh wait...

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