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...thus, their victory beer is cut short by the Dungeon and Dragons kids’ gory retaliation that recalls a certain scene from “Monty Python and the Holy Grail.” No matter the end result, though, the video fucking rocks. And if Al Gore ’69 could make recycling look half this cool, I might actually bring my empty beer cans down the stairs instead of just hurling them down the garbage chute. —Joshua J. Kearney
...repackaging of techno, jazz, rock, dance, indie, and rap into one, complete with Gym Class Heroes’ cheekiness and the soulfulness of OutKast’s “Ms. Jackson.” The Knux is a group made up of two brothers—called Al Millio and Krispy—who sound like a schizophrenic cross between OutKast, Gorillaz (when they laugh), and Juvenile. They have an eccentric whiff of the Strokes about them too, but it’s only when you think of all these artists at once that you come up with something...
...against him. And the Democrats could conceivably pick up more. Republican Saxby Chambliss, though he won a plurality of votes on Tuesday, faces a runoff in Georgia on Dec. 2. In Minnesota, the recount of the nearly tied Senate race will go into December at least, to determine whether Al Franken unseats GOP incumbent Norm Coleman. And counting continues in the tight Alaska race. Even if incumbent Ted Stevens retains his seat, Senate GOP leader Mitch McConnell has said there will be a vote to oust the recently convicted Senator. That would prompt a required special election...
Until recently, the Dems' precarious power in the Senate meant that Lieberman could pretty much say what he wanted. Al Gore's 2000 running mate, he had been forced to run for re-election in 2006 as an independent after liberals groups angry over his support for the war in Iraq helped mount a successful primary challenge. Since then, Lieberman has caucused with the Democrats - his presence among their ranks giving them control of the Senate with a 51-49 majority - while siding with the Bush Administration on Iraq and the war on terror...
...fact that Spain has been the victim of jihadist terror - 191 people died in the Madrid commuter train bombings of March 11, 2004 - would also seem to work against bin Laden's favor. "Al Qaeda and Osama bin Laden himself have signaled that Spain continues to be a target," says Jesus Nuñez, co-director and security expert at Madrid's Institute for Conflict and Humanitarian Action Studies. "That would suggest that Spain isn't going to receive his [son's] petition with...