April 1st, 2011
Courtesy of Galley Friend J.S. we have something that looks like what you’d get if Sasha Baron Cohen made Sabotage: The Web Series.
1 commentI’m Not Herzog
March 31st, 2011
If you’re into Bellow or Chicago—or both—you should check out I’m Not Herzog. It’s pretty great. For instance, without it, I’d never have known how milftastic Duff had gotten.
Update: Galley Friend X says I’ve got it all wrong:
Rachel Campos Duffy is not Duff. Karen Duffy is Duff, the mtv vj. Rachel is another mtv alum (real world SF), but has never gone by Duff. She’s also married to Republican Congressman Sean Duffy, another mtv (road rules) alum.
I’ll take his word for it.
3 commentsIn case you haven’t caught on yet: More ‘Sports Dome’
March 31st, 2011
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No More Wipes?
March 31st, 2011
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That’s some sweet action.
March 30th, 2011
Galley Friend S.B. sends along this link to Bodog, which is taking action on this weekend’s upcoming WrestleMania. Someone who knows more about gambling will have to give a definitive answer, but S.B. says he thinks that the minus number is the favorite.
If that’s the way it works, then it looks like the Undertaker moves his streak to 19 and Snooki earns a Cyndi Lauper-style victory.
I’m not sure how Bodog can take bets on something that’s scripted–it seems like there’s a huge opportunity for a fairly large universe of people with insider information to cash in.
0 commentsHe’s back to kill again.
March 30th, 2011
Like Jason and Michael Myers before him, Tilikum has returned.
I guess Florida has a three-strikes rule for killer whales. Which means that Tili has still got one more chance . . .
3 commentsObama the Demagogue
March 30th, 2011
Without getting into the substance of America’s intervention in Libya, it’s nice to see that certain parts of the left have suddenly discovered that their super-cool rockstar / kindly professor / political messiah is actually a bit of a demagogue with a penchant for building up straw-men and dishonestly framing those who disagree with him. Here’s an exasperated New Yorker item:
Much of the debate in Washington has put forward a false choice when it comes to Libya,” President Obama said Tuesday night. Maybe; but he proceeded to do something like that, too. The false choice, or choices, Obama presented were between doing exactly what he is doing and “never acting on behalf of what’s right,” and between doing what he is doing and deciding to:
” broaden our military mission beyond the task of protecting the Libyan people, and do whatever it takes to bring down Qaddafi and usher in a new government.”
In the first instance, the suggestion that those with doubts about entering this war—without much of a plan, without real consultation with Congress—were arguing against ever doing anything “on behalf of what is right” is, to say the least, overly broad. Does Obama really think that the only morally steady position is one that endorses the current air campaign—that not agreeing with him means turning “a blind eye to atrocities,” and that anything short of close to two hundred cruise missiles “would have been a betrayal of who we are”? (The answer to that question may be “yes.”)
I don’t expect the people at the New Yorker to abandon Obama come election time–at the end of the day, you join the side you’re on. But it wouldn’t be too much to ask that when the time comes for them to do their duty, they be a little less gleeful about it. After all, in 2008 certain people were able to either (1) fool themselves into not seeing what kind of fellow Barack Obama was or (2) pretend that they thought he was something different. In 2012 people on the left will certainly find reasons to vote for Obama, but neither of those earlier poses will be possible.
3 commentsTopps and the Modern Baseball Card
March 30th, 2011
My dalliance with baseball cards was limited to about a single months span when I was 10- or 11-years-old, so this doesn’t do all that much for me, but for certain people I suspect this AV Club look at modern baseball cards will be catnip.
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