Who is this person?
in When Will He Get It Right?

Interesting that Obama himself pointed out that his mother was unmarried and 18 when she became pregnant with him.
in Veep Candidate Palin’s 17-Year-Old Daughter Is Pregnant

The irony of MENSA is that the very act of joining the organization is proof that you're too stupid to deserve entry.
in Miley Cyrus, MENSA Member [April Winchell]

He looks like he could really use a drink
in RI cops arrest man with .491 blood alcohol level

What an ass
in Man breaks record by sitting in 39,250 seats

The downside of Google Analytics is for the site user who Google can track by IP to every site using GA.
in Google Sells Your Analytics Data (finally)

Wow, I honestly had no idea the hockey playoffs were still going on.
in Penguins steal amazing victory from Detroit in triple overtime

Map: http://tinyurl.com/3s6qgy
in Chile's volcano Chaiten erupts

The unsung hero here is obviously the videographer who kept the camera steady while the Internet-viral gold unfolded before him. A lesser person would have probably rushed to the woman's aid, silencing a million chuckles before they were even born.
in Wedding Really Goes Wrong

Deep-fried turkeys and turduckens are quintessentially American ideas: take a simple, family-focused thing and turn it into a complete spectacle.
in Deep fried turkey troubles

JERRY'S VOICE
What started out as one page
became twenty-five. Suddenly I was
my father's son. I was
remembering the simple pleasures
of this job, how I ended up here
out of law school, the way a
stadium sounds when one of my
players performs well on the
field... I was remembering even
the words of the late Dicky Fox,
the original sports agent, who
said:

SHOT OF DICKY FOX

DICKY FOX
The key to this job is personal
relationships.

As Jerry continues typing, his voice is excited now.

JERRY'S VOICE
And suddenly it was all pretty
clear. The answer was fewer
clients. Caring for them, caring
for ourselves, and the games too.
Starting our lives, really.

SHOT OF SENTENCE: We must embrace what is still virginal
about our own enthusiasm, we must crack open the tightly
clenched fist and give back a little for the common good, we
must simply be the best versions of ourselves... that
goodness will be unbeatable and the money will appear.

He pauses, and wipes his eyes, still considering the sentence.

JERRY'S VOICE
(continuing)
Hey, I'll be the first to admit
it. What I was writing was
somewhat "touchy feely."

He deletes it. And then -- zip -- he restores it and
continues on, boldly.

8.


JERRY'S VOICE
(continuing)
I didn't care. I had lost the
ability to bullshit. It was the
me I'd always wanted to be.

in Tim Robbins great controversial NAB speech.

Amazingly they actually weighed 10 kilos more than when they started. The only problem was that their two Chechen man servants tragically disappeared at some point along the way.
in Russian team first to reach the North Pole in Winter

The Sun (U.K.) has the best headline I've seen on this so far: "Roger and Out"
in Spitzer Resigns

I always thought the post-Bauhaus bands - Tones on Tail, Love and Rockets (i.e., those led by Ash and without Murphy) - were better than Baushaus itself.
in Bauhaus: Godfathers of Goth Regroup

I saw the headline and just assumed it was about Brett Favre retiring...
in Failed His Final Saving Throw

I wish I had known about this. I would have submitted a drawing of a giant stone "Pyramid of Democracy". Affixed to the top would be a huge, all-seeing eye. It would be placed in the desert and faced in a gleaming white concrete made from the symbolic ground-up bones of the dead.
in Bush Presidential Library

Along a similar vein: "Trying Leviathan" http://amazon.com/o/asin/0691129509/10030-20
in How The Muskrat Became A Fish

I just pray that the Catholic blue will eventually crush the red Baptist scum.
in Snapshot of Religion in the United States

I've been patiently waiting all this time for just this sort of opportunity ...
in And that name, Coco, what is the origin?

I say there is precedent for acquiring this word from Latin also. If some horse's ass says you can't use it, point them here: http://www.archives.nd.edu/cgi-bin/words.exe?praependere
in "Prepend"