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Joe Wilson, Kanye West and Something About a Chicken: A Week of Inappropriate Outbursts

Is there something in the water? Maybe air pressure fluctuations with the cooling fall weather? Whatever the reason, things are going crazy across the country--and across the universe, it seems. The punditocracy has been wringing its hands about what Joe Wilson's and Kanye West's breaches of decorum say about the decline of civility in 21st-century America. But it's not just anger--take the New York television anchor who blurted a four-letter word in an inscrutable new coinage. Astronomers have produced evidence of strange things happening in space, too. Here is NEWSWEEK's handy reference guide to the top outbursts of the past two weeks.

 
 
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  • Posted By: kingkurtus @ 10/15/2009 3:34:51 AM

    Something weird is going on with the energy all around us. People are starting to act differently everywhere. I think it all has to do with what's going on with the universe right now and has something to do with the date of 2012.
    http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/2242415/changes_are_coming_on_december_21st.html

  • Posted By: the kingdom @ 09/19/2009 8:32:51 AM

    I think west and serena williams should go on there first date so in 9 month they can ask each other WHO YA BABY DADDY

  • Posted By: Cadillac Colin Cody @ 09/19/2009 4:09:42 AM

    I have read a careful analysis of the bill in question and from that it is clear that Joe was correct and Obama is indeed a scheming, lying confidence man as was he in his youth on the mean streets of Chicago. That tiger has not changed his spots, just his arena of deception.

    I remember when tennis was played by ladies and gentlemen all in white who would not dare be impolite to anyone involved in the game. I was one of them. Serena and those before her like Jimmy Connors, Patrick McEnroe, etc., have disgraced themselves and the noble sport of tennis by their boorish and philistine conduct on the courts. The powers that be in professional tennis simply must grow a spine and put a stop to such behavior immediately by ejecting such people from the game for several years at a time or even permanently. Television money is not worth the loss of the heart of the game itself which absolutely involves superb civility and sportsmanship.

    Mr. West is just typical of the type of trash people in the entertainment industry today. We should not expect civilized behavior from them any more than we would expect such of a wild hog in the forest. I don't watch them or have anything to do with them. Never have, never will. Nor should we all if we would rid ourselves of these scum.

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