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Tiago Splitter began Game 4 of the 2013 NBA Finals with a backcourt violation. Things didn’t get much better for him after that.

The San Antonio Spurs’ center was once again rejected emphatically by a member of the Heat. Actually, he was rejected by members of the Heat. With Manu Ginobili bringing the ball up the court for the Spurs early in the second quarter, Splitter got free in the paint. Ginobili hit him with a pass and the 28-year-old Brazilian attacked the rim. Defending that same rim was Dwyane Wade, who promptly rejected Splitter.

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Distracted driving is responsible for many wrecks, and as a result there has been a push for auto makers to implement technologies aimed at reducing gadget-related distractions. There’s some controversy about whether those technologies help or cause more of an issue than they fix, but both those issues aside, New Jersey has a proposal on

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A few years ago, a backlash seemed to be forming against Seth Rogen. Soon after his breakout role in Knocked Up, it seemed like you couldn’t get away from him, his weird laugh, and the immature man-boy type of humor that he embodied. Couple that with underwhelming box office grosses and negative reviews for films like Pineapple Express, Observe and Report, and The Green Hornet, and it seemed like a lot of America was ready to write off the burly Jewish Canadian with the booming voice and look for their laughs elsewhere.

But then something interesting happened. Pineapple Express and Observe and Report (to a lesser degree) found their audiences and became cult favorites. While failing to spawn a franchise, The Green Hornet ended up making enough money overseas to put it safely in the black. And Rogen, along with his childhood friend and writing partner Evan Goldberg, continued writing and making movies whose small budgets allowed them to work with their friends and avoid the scrutiny and high expectations of studio executives. The result has been a string of solid films that show the development of a unique comedic style and sensibility, and Rogen and Goldberg’s new film This Is the End shows that this kind of humor can even be successfully applied to characters who are literally facing the end of the world. Watch my ReThink Review of This Is the End below (transcript following).

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Even the legendary Houdini can’t get the U.S. out of its Syrian straightjacket. For over three agonizing years the Obama Administration has twisted itself into diplomatic contortions in vain attempts to downplay Syria’s infectious civil war as a policy and humanitarian challenge to American national security. Instead, avoiding any tangible involvement in Syria became THE vital national security interest for a White House determined to avoid at all costs becoming entangled in another Middle East conflict.

For a White House that has warily considered the Syrian crisis in pure black and white terms, tonight’s tardy admission of crossed chemical weapons red lines is, well, a very inconvenient truth.

So now, the President has stumbled into the worst of all worlds. He is being dragged kicking and screaming into providing the Syrian rebels with pee shooters when the besieged Free Syrian Army desperately needs anti-aircraft weapons to avoid more consequential battlefield setbacks. To add insult to injury the White House made sure to highlight a long list of “no’s” when it comes to providing arms that could make the difference against Assad: no no-fly zone, no anti aircraft weapons, no air strikes against chemical weapons bases, no drone strikes against Hezbollah and Iranian supplies lines.

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Sony outsells Apple in Japan.

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