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After the death of 2 of its workers, The Metropolitan Transit Authority's Internal Affairs must have kicked into highgear investigating all sorts of claims, going so far as to stakeout Cosmodrome fave ESG.

It seems that Valerie Scroggins, one of the ESG sisters, is also an MTA employee that went on worker's comp for injuries she sustained on the job. To investigate this claim, the MTA sent an investigator to Dublin and Amsterdam to follow ESG on tour and film Scroggins playing drums for over an hour on stage, a thing she would not be able to do with the injuries she claimed she had.

Sroggins now faces charges of grand larceny and insurance fraud, on top of returning the $13K she had been paid out.

But the investigator wasn't totally soulless, it seems:
"After the concert in Dublin, she autographed the cover of an ESG compact disc the investigator had bought and posed for pictures with him."

On this day, when horses in Lexington will run to satisfy our nation's deeply engrained gambling urges, I write here as the loser of a bet. Worse yet, it was a bad bet. Breaks down like this: I made a bet with the operator of That Crazy Rap Music! that Dirk Nowitzki would score more than 25 points in Thursday's Game 6 of the Dallas Mavericks-Golden State Warriors first round playoff series. Nowitzki wasn't even close; he scored eight points on 2-13 shooting. Nowitzki struggled for the entire series, save for a one-minute stretch in Game 5, when he hit two straight threes with his team trailing by 9 in the final minutes. I figured he'd build on this. I was wrong. That Crazy Rap Music! was right. Dirk SUCKED in Game 6.

The wager was for the integrity of this site. Having lost, I will now tell you why another site does what we do better than how we do.

So without further ado: That Crazy Rap Music! is a better site than Cosmodrome.

[Ed. note: photo at right is Dirk Nowitzki and unknown person - not the author of TCRM!]

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From this fantastic New York Times account of a recent debate between the combatants for the French Presidency, Nicolas Sarkozy and Segolene Royal:

“Calm down,” he told her.

“No, I will not calm down,” she replied.

“Do not point at me with this finger, with this——” he said.

“No. Yes,” she said.

“With this index finger pointed, because frankly——”

“No, I will not calm down,” she said. “No, I will not calm down. I will not calm down.”

“To be president of the republic, you have to be calm,” he said.

She responded: “Not when there are injustices. There are angers that are perfectly healthy because they correspond to people’s suffering. There are angers I will have even when I am president of the republic.”

In the middle of her sentence, Mr. Sarkozy tried to stop her, asking, “Madame Royal, would you allow me to say one word?” But she ignored him.

His voice took on a patronizing tone. “I don’t know why the usually calm Madame Royal has lost her nerve,” he said.

Mr. Sarkozy repeatedly tried to paint Ms. Royal as uninformed. She tried to paint him as overbearing. There was equal-time interruption.

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From an early 1970s Cardozo High School (Bayside, NY) Yearbook:

Photo from the omnipresent TMZ.

In discussing the fact that both of them have autobiographical books out, Jeremy threw down the gauntlet:

"We didn't speak much, and didn't have much in common, but I made it to #32 on the bestseller list ... let's see how he does."

More Cosmodrome coverage of Porn Star former CIA director George Tenet here.

Classic advertisement for Sportscenter featuring Romanian film/NBA star Gheorghe Muresan. Muresan is best known for his work in the 1998 Billy Crystal joint, My Giant.

From this blog item listing the 10 best of its type.

Another one, best known as "Follow Me To Freedom," below.

Jean-Marie le Pen encouraged French voters to act out the plot of the film Brewster's Millions by staying away from the upcoming French battle royale between Nicolas Sarkozy and Segolene... Royal.

New Order performs "Regret" on Baywatch.

What is it about overweight men and the bass?

Josh recently commented on the bangin-ness of Dennis Kucinich's wife, whom we must understand probably has been set up with Dennis by the movement.

But he's not the only politician with a bangin wife. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the wives of the right wing.

Fred Thompson's wife:

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