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BS From the INS: Did you read about this new immigration test that Citizenship and Immigration Services is trying out on people applying to become U.S. citizens? To say it's considerably harder than the one that's been in use forever would be a big understatement: "People will be asked, for example, not only what are the three branches of government but also why we have three branches. The idea is to see whether budding Americans understand underlying principles of our democracy. In other words, we expect them to be better than the rest of us. Better than we who prove our love of democracy by not voting in vast numbers." It's just this type of crap that makes me wanna cringe about being an American sometimes. I wonder what the people who came over on the Mayflower in 1620 would think about this. I, for one, smell a rat. (TimesSelect)

Dumbass U.S.A.: Meanwhile, the city of Pahrump, Nevada, has passed a new law that declares English the official language -- and prohibits residents from hanging a foreign flag on YOUR OWN HOUSE without the U.S. flag being flown along side it and higher than the other flag. Why don't these legislators just take a big dump on the Constitution while they're at it? Fortunately some UNLV students are not taking this lying down. (News3)

Tawana Make Her Sick? Did you see the lovely Nicole Paultre on "Larry King Live" last night? It's bad enough this poor woman's (totally hot) fiance, Sean Bell, was slaughtered by the NYPD, but now she has to spend time with the Rev. Al Sharpton? Talk about adding insult to injury. (NYDN)

Holy Enchirito! How could there not be an E.coli outbreak at Taco Bell? (NYT)

Milk It: I wrote about comedian Kathy Griffin's airliner brush with death last week. Now she's getting her second shot at Larry King as she takes to the airwaves tonight at 9 to discuss the incident, aka the best thing that's happened to her PRwise this year. E-mail your questions for Kathy Griffin.

Does a U.N. Body Good: Everyone's favorite manager of the year John Bolton takes his milk mustache and goes. (Reuters)

Girl Gone Bad: This tacky new "Bad Girls Club" fake-reality show on Oxygen sounds so horrendous I just may have to watch it. (NYT)