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Cal State Northridge students protesting budget cuts leading to enrollment cuts.

I think it's fairly safe to say the banner tells the powers-that-be that education definitely can't afford more cutbacks.  Even if it's not in the way the writers may have originally intended.

LA Progressive | Don't Get Angry, Get Even

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Attractive foreign students grumpy about voyeur landlord.

Two female Bulgarian students found cameras in their apartment that they said have been trained on their every move, from going to sleep to taking showers.


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Spot the home-made sign

I don't know the background to this story. And, in line with the hard-hitting journalistic integrity of this blog, I don't care. But I very much enjoy the fact there is a cheese sandwich in that handbag. Once the hubbub has died down, and that nice young man from the paper has gone away, Doris will be all over it.

Angry voters demand Whitmer investigation

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Some fuming over proposed cell tower

The answer to the question that's on everyone lips: "What would American Gothic look like if Grant Wood painted it today?"

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Vulture biz stirs bogus-tix blitz

Why would you do that with your trailing ivy?

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Train traps Callahan woman in her yard

You'd just walk round them, wouldn't you?

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With heavy restrictions, Queens Blvd. club Royal Palace gets its permit

Mass thumbage almost compensates for the less-than-catchy headline

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Knocked up by the disgruntled

There are lots of things to be angry about in this world. War, famine, pestilence, inequality, greed, fanaticism, oppression and the inexplicable rise of Piers Morgan as a TV personality being just eight of the things we should have our ire raised by.

Having the same name as the eponymous character in the film 'Forgetting Sarah Marshall' however isn't one of the many other 'things'.

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I mean, if you want to let civilisation know that Mr Apatow sucks at least have the good sense to base it on something the majority of the populous will agree with you about, such as the lack of comedy in his comedy films 'Knocked Up' and 'Funny Games'. Or the fact his pictures always seem to be 30 minutes longer than they need to be. To base it on a forgettable film he only produced seems like a bit of a waste.

This is a true story. I actually saw 'Forgetting Sarah Marshall' for the first (and possibly only) time the night before I found this article.

I said it was a true story - I didn't say it was an interesting.

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