opening day teaser

As everyone surely knows opening day for 2009 baseball season is coming up.  In the spirit of the American past time I post this link, it is for a blog encouraging Mets third baseman David Wright to grow a mustache.  Or in their words.

Join us in our season-long quest to get David Allen Wright to become the latest and greatest in a long line of mustachioed Mets. He will do it. We will make it so. ‘Cause the mustache has mojo. Ya gotta believe!

I'm all for it if it makes him hit in September.

Update: They even have a theme song. 

The Wright Stache Theme from The Wright Stache on Vimeo.

Catchy No?

obama pwns stoopid washington press

Good looks, Mr. President.

"at midnight all the agents and superhuman crew"

This is an awesome cover of a Dylan classic from the Watchmen soundtrack.

atlas shat upon

'nuff said.

There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs.

Soviet Obama

h/t Ta-Nehisi

it really is the world wide leader

ESPN has Obama's bracket.

st. patty's day song

Update: My favorite Sinead song.

not so deep thought

Mt friend Zip says that there are five days a year that are amatuer drinking nights. New Years Eve, St. Patricks Day, Cinco De Mayo, Halloween and Arbor Day.  Arbor Day? Don't ask

I'm pretty sure this IS what Jesus would do...

Kosher salt for Jesus freaks.

this is your rump republic party: Glen Beck edition

I bet you didn't know that frustrated conservatives HAVE to kill people because they are oppressed by political correctness.  Glen Beck says so!

These people are insane. Why are they on the teevee?

facts are shameful things

Ari Fleischer calls Chris matthews shameful for pointing out the fact that Bush was President on 9/11.  These people are insane.  Why are they on the teevee?

they really are the same thing

Gay marriage and robot marriage.  I'm sure Yglesias will be all over this.

you wouldn't like him when he's angry

what he said

Ta-Nehisi that is.

The Great Santini

As anyone who knows me would know, growing up the movie and the book The Great Santini were hugely influential in my life and in my family. I have literally seen the movie and read the book dozens of times.  In shop class, in the seventh grade, I made a wooden plaque with The Great Santini written on it that still hangs in my dad's kitchen.  All of this is a long way of saying that there is a great article about the book's author Pat Conroy on espn.com.  Read it.  Also, read the book and see the movie.  That is all.

TEH FUNNY

John Cole nails it. Jon Stewart is hilarious. Watch.

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Yglesias piles on.

"have you ever seen a one-legged dog?...then you've seen me."

yoda vs. rush

Over at TAPPED, in a post titled Jedi Mind Tricks, Adam Serwer explains why Obama loves the rrp's* embrace of Rush Limbaugh.  Read the whole post.

The reason the Obama administration is happy to wrap Limbaugh around the GOP's neck isn't because they're afraid of him. It's because everyone outside the GOP base thinks he's repulsive. The conservative base is so consumed in the self-satisfying exercise of hating their political opponents that they've lost all perspective. They're getting their butts kicked, and they don't even know it. Worse, they seem to think they're actually winning the argument.

Perhaps the rrp needs to listen to some advice from Yoda, " But beware. Anger, fear, aggression. The dark side are they. Once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny. "

*rump republic party

your republic party cont.

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teh economy...worse before better

see more pwn and owned pictures

no doubt

more music charts

Emmitt Smith roast=teh funny

How did I miss this? h/t Ta-Nehisi (read his blog!)

NFL free agancy begins. The Native Americans get Haynesworth and that sucks for us Cowboy fans.

not so deep thought

Maybe for lent this year the Catholic Church could give up Holocaust denial?  Just sayin.

Update: I guess not.

the new black?

Bacon Mayo.

joys of the drug war: Arizona edition

The violence from Mexico is creeping into the states.  Money Quote:

“They send us drugs and people, and we send them guns and cash,” Mr. Paton said in an interview.

Next stop....