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Britain's Got Talent, and Ashton Kutcher on Twitter: What is CNN up to?

I knew there was a reason I prefered MSNBC over CNN. Take a look at these two front pages from CNN & MSNBC. Both of them were up at the same time, just before 11am eastern time today, but are worlds apart in what they highlight.

Obama releases Bush torture memos, but won't prosecute

The Obama White House has released memos from the Bush administration that define and allow for torture by the CIA. To his credit, President Obama is making government much more transparent. Sadly, he said there are no plans to prosecute those who took part in the acts of torture.

Olbermann has more about this on MSNBC, and is thankfully sensible enough to criticize Obama's decisions to not hold the Bush administration or anyone else accountable. Here's the video. Just a note, this contains verbal descriptions of torture acts, as well as a brief demonstration of waterboarding, but it's not unnecessarily grotesque or over the top as I've seen before.

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Zeitgeist: Cow urine soda & QVC Samurai sword fail

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