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Thursday, August 30, 2007

In another year or so, this will be of interest to more than die hards: Elena Delle Donne commits to UConn.

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23:28 bone daddy

I haven't watched Fox "News" for years. I haven't been missing much.

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23:13 bone daddy

Wednesday, August 29, 2007

I'm getting my family-values, anti-gay Republicans caught seeking gay sex confused. It's reached a tipping point. When I first heard the Larry Craig story - this was before GOP'ers started calling for his resignation and before his "Really, I'm still not gay" press conference - I thought it was a late reference to the McCain Florida campaign chair caught soliciting in a park.

I knew it wasn't Vitter, because he was totally straight with his prostitutes, and I knew it wasn't Ted Haggard, because that guy's a Reverend, not to mention he's totally cured of his gayness. I also remember the name Foley (because of the catheter) so I knew it wasn't him. I also remember Jeff Gannon, the gay prostitute who posed as a White House reporter on behalf of the totally straight Karl Rove, because it's one of the most mind-bending examples in the game "How would this scandal have played out for a Democrat?"

See how easy it is to get confused? Anyway, which excuse is worse:

1) "I have horrible luck. There's always been these rumors that I cruise for guys, even though I'm totally straight. Then I wind up in a bathroom where this kind of thing goes on and I happen to have a medical condition that causes me to give the signal for 'I want some sex,' even though I really don't AND I'm cursed with an easy-going nature that made me plead guilty to the thing I didn't do." - Larry Craig

2) "I offered to give him $20 and a blowjob because he was black and I figured that's what he wanted." - Bob Allen

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22:14 bone daddy

Thursday, August 23, 2007

No Sense of Decency ... Bush scratches at the wounds of Vietnam in an attempt to smear his critics and prop up faltering support for his Iraq folly. I've long maintained that the pro-war right will get loonier and more violent as the debacle that is Iraq becomes less and less deniable. No reason Bush would be exempt from this I guess. There's two ways of looking at this - either a man with little ability to grasp the present is showing his trouble with the past as well, or Bush knows perfectly well that Iraq is and will continue to be a disaster for some time and he is setting up others to take the blame.

In a small sense, Vietnam War protesters have helped set up Bush's blame-those-who-were-right strategy by taking too much credit for ending Vietnam. We lost Vietnam because of the Vietnamese and, to a lesser degree, because we shouldn't have been there. Not because of the hippies.

Less than a year ago, Bush floated this analogy, prompting Robert Scheer to write ...

The lesson of Vietnam is not to keep pouring lives and treasure down a dark and poisonous well, but to patiently use a pragmatic mix of diplomacy and trade with even our ideological competitors.

The United States dropped more bombs on tiny Vietnam than it unloaded on all of Europe in World War II, only hardening Vietnamese nationalist resolve. Hundreds of thousands of troops, massive defoliation of the countryside, "free fire zones," South Vietnamese allies, bombing the harbors ... none of it worked. Yet, never admitting that our blundering military presence fueled the native nationalist militancy we supposedly sought to eradicate, three US Presidents--two of them Democrats--lied themselves into believing victory was around some mythical corner.


Lastly, I'd like to ask, if Bush knows so much about winning in Vietnam, why didn't he go ahead and fight there?

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14:21 bone daddy

Okay, sure, the UFO Haiti video is a fake, but it's a really good fake.

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11:44 bone daddy

Monday, August 20, 2007

Mo
Michael Vick, Tim Donaghy, Jason Giambi, Barry Bonds, Pacman Jones ... hard to find a story from the world of sports these past few weeks that wasn't about cruelty, corruption, cheating, or fake wrestling. Former Sox (Angels, Mets) slugger Mo Vaughn's work in Brooklyn was one of the few positive stories I saw this weekend.

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14:44 c-dog

Outpost Gallifrey: Doctor Who RSS News Feed: "McCoy claimed that Fifth Doctor Peter Davison is due to return for Series 4 in a Multi-Doctor episode."

While I'm surprised they'd go all the way back to the Fifth Doctor when McGann (8), and probably McCoy (7), wouldn't be so obviously older than when they played the Doctor, and in their cases because McGann was a one-0ff and Sly got to walk off the role, their older appearance could be explained, where with Davison we saw his Doctor from beginning to end and there's no getting around the fact that he's aged. That said, I hope the rumor is true.

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11:03 c-dog

Saturday, August 18, 2007

In case you don't watch Sportscenter ... So Walpole, Massachusetts (representing New England) takes over the lead in the top of the 6th during a Little League World Series game over Ohio. Ohio's coming back in the bottom of the 6th (the last inning). They've brought the score to 3-2, knocked out the starting pitcher and have a guy on 3rd. The winning run is at the plate with two outs, setting up this. Watch the video that goes with the article. (Unfortunately the title gives away what happened. A better video or clip hasn't shown up on YouTube.) I happened to be watching this last inning live. It was one of those sports moments that made me - even with zero connection to either team or the league - jump out of my seat.

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23:40 bone daddy

I'd like to point out that some of the monkeys on monkeysuicide.com, which chronicles in photos the demise of sock monkeys by various methods, were clearly murdered. Death by Optimus Prime sticking a gun in your mouth? How's that suicide?

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23:28 bone daddy

Fantasy Football 2007
I've formed another Yahoo FFL. If you're interested, the League ID is 502818 and the password is 'monkey'. Come get your whoopin'. Live draft Friday, August 31st at 10pm ET.

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22:19 c-dog

Monday, August 13, 2007

Karl Rove to Leave White House, Spend More Time with Coven

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16:50 bone daddy

Tommy Thompson was running for president. Who knew?

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13:08 bone daddy

Saturday, August 11, 2007

Popeye
For no good reason, a couple of Popeye YouTubes: Popeye vs. Anime | Popeye on Family Guy.

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16:07 c-dog

Wednesday, August 08, 2007

The Enduring Bond Between Huey Lewis and the Developmentally Disabled. A great article on why "retarded people love them some Huey Lewis." Not as cruel as it sounds, but as funny.

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09:02 bone daddy

Tuesday, August 07, 2007

Worst Smack Talk Ever Since c-dog and I were they only ones to sign up on the fantasy movie mogul game you might think I wouldn't take much pride in my victory. You'd be wrong.

"Yo, c-dog! Your powers of predicting successful movies based on their posters are clearly inferior to mine!"

Um ...

"The capitalist success of my slate clearly proves my moral superiority to you. And your mother."

Hmmmm...

"You come at me with Waitress? What were you thinkin', bee-yotch?"

Well ...

"Other people made 800 something million off my movies and all I got was ... hey, can I get a T-shirt somewhere?"

Okay, there's no smack-talking possibilities, but a win is a win.

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23:02 bone daddy

Spirit of '78 I have to say, I'm loving the Yankees, from the old guys like Rivera and Jeter to the young. I'm paying much more attention to baseball this season than I usually do because the Yankees were so bad and so far down. If they'd been hanging around 5-6 back all season, I wouldn't have gotten into it so much. That's how spoiled you can get as a Yankees fan. When your team is down 14, you think, "Wow, this would be a really cool way to win the World Series!"

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22:56 bone daddy

12 Memorable newspaper comic strip deaths. They're only sort of ranked, but I would have given the top two spots to Doonesbury, one for Dick Davenport (dead of a heart attack while bird-watching) who is mentioned and for Andy (comic strip's first gay character, died from AIDS while listening to just-released Pet Sounds on CD).

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22:51 bone daddy