I don't think they've gone anywhere. There may be a distinct lack of them in the public eye but that's a far cry from them being MIA.

All I have to do is go to the local dive bar and they're easy to find. Same tats, same 'tudes.

But, ya know, NME is probably right, let's blame it on porn.

I thought he hit it out of the park. YMMV.

I welcome the trolls.

They brought the boys back to talk about "Extract".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuTjLSW9k94

It wouldn't be surprising if that were true. He's obviously trying to rehabilitate his image. Didn't seem to work all that well.

Courtesy of TMZ (why do I feel a little dirty for linking to a story of theirs?) is a statement from Chris Brown.

"There have been reports on the Internet that I didn't remember what happened that night with Rihanna. I want to try and set things straight.

That 30 seconds of the interview they used of me was taken from a one hour interview during which that same question was asked something like 4 or 5 times -- and when you look at the entire interview you will see it is not representative of what I said.

The first four times – or how ever many times it was - I gave the same answer -- which was that I didn't think it was appropriate for me to talk about what happened that night. I said it was not right for me and it really wasn't fair to Rihanna. The fifth time – or whatever it was – I just misspoke. I was asked, "Do you remember doing it?" and I said, "No."

Of course I remember what happened. Several times during the interview, my mother said that I came to her right afterwards and told her everything. But it was and still is a blur. And yes, I still can't believe it happened because it is not me or who I am or is what happened like anything I have ever done before.

As I have said several times previously, I am ashamed of and sorry for what happened that night and I wish I could relive that moment and change things, but I can't. I take full responsibility for my actions. What I have to do now is to prove to the world that this was an isolated incident and that is not who I am and I intend to do so by my behavior now and in the future."

http://www.tmz.com/2009/08/31/chris-brown-i-want-to-set-things-strait/

All one has to do is read Glenn Greenwald to see how much in lock step Obama is with Bush on a raft of policies. It's hard to see a progressive attitude in a lot of his administration's political stances.

I'm all for the president having a little fun but I wish he would be as open about his decision to continue with the opaqueness of government, rather than the transparency he campaigned on, as he was to talk baseball with Joe Buck and Tim McCarver at the Baseball All-Star game.

"The GOP operatives who championed her should be charged with endangering the country"

In what sense and by whom? The Department of Law? Geez.