​Blockbuster Inc. reveals in its annual financial report filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission that the video-store chain may have to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.

The one-time king of DVD and videotape rentals reveals in the filing it ended the last year in the red, the next 12 to 18 months present additional financial challenges and it plans to close 500-545 stores this year, after having shuttered 430 company-owned depots in 2009.

Normally, we'd advocate everyone getting an equally fair shake while dealing with bankruptcy courts. But a Blockbuster bankruptcy would allow the government to be just as dickish toward Blockbuster as Blockbuster has been to all of us.

Five ways to get even follow after the jump . . .
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​Conan O'Brien's live comedy/music review, which is aptly titled "Legally Prohibited from Being Funny on Television," lands April 24-25 at Gibson Amphitheatre at Universal City Walk, poignantly close to where the tall drink of redhead taped The Tonight Show before NBC fucked him over.
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​Irvine resident Shirley Rae Dieu wants to sue the pants off of Dr. Phil and CBS Television for making her face a pants-less man--and a Superior Court judge in Los Angeles is all for it.

Today, Judge Elizabeth Allen White rejected a defense motion alleging Dieu's lawsuit infringed on their First Amendment rights.
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So, Bill O'Reilly thinks sister-act congresswomen Loretta Sanchez (D-Garden Grove) and Linda Sanchez (D-Cerritos) do not possess the brain power to appear on The O'Reilly Factor.
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​Random notes scribbled onto a soggy napkin from the "Norm stool" at a working-class, Central Orange County watering hole during Sunday's USA-Canada Olympics gold medal hockey game . . .

12:22 p.m.: The first shot is a slapper from Canada's Duncan Keith that Team USA goalie Ryan Miller handles with 52 seconds gone. Miller and Canada's goalie Roberto Luongo seem unbeatable today.

12:24 p.m.: A guy with ink-covered arms sitting to my right and his bro standing beside him holding a cue stick commiserate on their respective Canadian roots. The tattooed love boy has family there, while the other chap has traced his roots to the Great White North. The sleeved one slurs that had he hung out with the Canadian side of his family more, he'd surely have become such a solid hockey player that perhaps he'd be playing in this gold medal game . . . instead of watching it from a barstool.
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UPDATE: Benny Hinn delivered an on-air statement about wife's divorce filing. Details below . . .

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Benny Hinn, spreading something.

​Staring into the camera with two TBN personalities by his side, televangelist Benny Hinn twice repeated that his wife of 30 years filing for divorce was not brought on by "immorality in my life or my wife's. EVER!"

Some observers believe the pastor was preparing the flock for damning allegations to come.
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​If you're single, between the ages of 26-45 and can use $500, Thursday's Downtown Anaheim Certified Farmers' Market & Craft Fair wants you.
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"Like, new credit card rules are hard..."

​For advice on the nation's new credit card rules, who better to turn to than Vicki Gunvalson, one of The Real Housewives of Orange County?
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​Aaron Boone, the former Villa Park High School star and son of the Angels catcher from 1982-88 Bob Boone, today announced he will retire and become an ESPN baseball analyst.
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​Before Tiger Woods takes the podium of his press conference broadcast live from Florida to the rest of the known universe, a camera scans the small audience.

It resembles the small gatherings at executions.

Actually, that's what this kind of is.

The pride of Cypress emerges looking as if he has been balling his eyes out all night. There are no visible signs of Woods having taken a violent 5-iron to the face, save for a couple nicks here and there.
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