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San Jose’s Joey Chestnut, the reigning champ of the Nathan’s Famous Fourth of July Coney Island Hot Dog Eating contest, has done it again, gobbling something like 4,000 slices of pizza in 10 minutes Sunday to win the first Famous Famiglia World Pizza Eating Championship in New York’s Times Square.

OK — it was actually 45. But I bet it felt like 4,000.

I wish this contest was around when I was about 17 and still had a working metabolism.

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If you’re wondering what happened to your 401K this week (hint: It probably wasn’t good), please go to this site and take a quick peek:

http://brokershandsontheirfacesblog.tumblr.com/

Yes, it’s true. We’re all screwed.

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I just got this press release from the agency that handles the Foo Fighters. And that Dave Grohl always seems so wacky and stuff … But it does, again, bring up the point that artists get touchy when it comes to what their songs represent, at least when they were written, as opposed to how politicians and other people represent them.

And they should be, though, again, there’s the question of fair use. Whose song is it once it’s released to the public? And why do automakers have to pay an artist — and pay handsomely — when they use a song to represent a product, but not politicians? It’s not like they aren’t pushing a product. Anyway, here’s what the Foo Fighters have to say about it:

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Looks like Democracy is really taking hold in the Middle East, just like President Cheney said it would. What good is invading a country – or kicking one out of another country with unhinged violence – if we can’t tell them what to do?

Stoning women who show their foreheads in public is one thing, but really – where does it say a girl jumping on stage and smooching an Egyptian pop star will shut down a whole concert?

John Mayer wouldn’t even make it through souncheck in Kuwait.

Our Zero of the Day, miraculously, wasn’t the Southern California school board member who was busted stealing a bottle of ketchup from a school cafeteria. They knew he was stealing it because he tried smuggling out under his coat …

No, our zero is the Wisconsin man who ran out of gas and tried siphoning some from another car Saturday. Because it was dark out, he couldn’t see if any gas was in the car. Lacking a flashlight, lamp, searchlight, jar of fireflies or any other reasonable form of illumination, he used the only thing he had to ascertain whether there was gas in there.

That’s right. He flicked his Bic.

The ensuing blast, funny enough, burned the unnamed idiot’s, er … man’s, hands and alerted neighbors, who called police. He and the woman who was assisting him (all master criminals need an assistant) were arrested on suspicion of theft and negligent use of burning materials.

I’ll let you know if/when I can find a Hero of the Day …

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