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  • Celebrity news does two things: Distracts us from real news that matters, and helps sell us garbage that we don't need.

    Ben Cohen: Who Is Lindsay Lohan? 2010

  • Celebrity news does two things: Distracts us from real news that matters, and helps sell us garbage that we don't need.

    Ben Cohen: Who Is Lindsay Lohan? 2010

  • As US Freedoms Dissolve, Mainstream media Lies and Distracts yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'As US Freedoms Dissolve, Mainstream media Lies and Distracts'; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'Article: Big bro 43 has ruined our place of prestige among the international community, dismantled our civil rights, lied to us about the pre-war Iraq intelligence, fired his top military expert, and mainstream is silent.

    As US Freedoms Dissolve, Mainstream media Lies and Distracts 2008

  • Distracts you from your own … ah, Melissa, nice of you to drop in at last!

    The Little Lady Agency and the Prince Hester Browne 2008

  • Distracts you from your own … ah, Melissa, nice of you to drop in at last!

    The Little Lady Agency and the Prince Hester Browne 2008

  • Personalizing Distracts from Analysis of Political System by BroadsideBalladeer on Wednesday, Oct 29, 2008 at 3: 50: 42 PM

    Is George W. Bush Sane? 2008

  • Distracts you from your own … ah, Melissa, nice of you to drop in at last!

    The Little Lady Agency and the Prince Hester Browne 2008

  • Distracts her for a few minutes—but only late at night, alone in her car, when she can be as anonymous as those callers.

    The Worst Thing I've Done Ursula Hegi 2007

  • ~ Pain Distracts The Brain -- Anybody who has tried to concentrate on work while suffering a headache knows that pain compellingly commands attention -- which is how evolution helped ensure survival in a painful world.

    Speedlinking 7/9/07 William Harryman 2007

  • The nightingale's note, when the dawning is near, Distracts from the lute-strings the true lover's ear.

    The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume IV Anonymous 1879

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