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Syria twerk

Jared Keller, Al Jazeera America's social media editor, graphs American news interest as measured by Topsy, the Twitter analytics service.

Via Wikipedia, twerking "is a dance move that involves a person shaking the hips in an up-and-down bouncing motion, causing the dancer to shake, 'wobble' and 'jiggle.' To "twerk" means to 'dance in a sexually suggestive fashion by twisting the hips.'" Miley Cyrus did it at the MTV Video Music Awards last night, and MSNBC's Mika Brzezinski was really upset about it.

Syria "is a country in Western Asia, bordering Lebanon and the Mediterranean Sea to the West, Turkey to the north, Iraq to the east, Jordan to the south and Israel to the southwest." Aaron David Miller, the vice president for new initiatives and a distinguished scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, thinks Obama is going to bomb it.