Craigorian Chant

Today, a tale of fat hedgehogs. It seems the little fellow spent too long at an SPCA shelter, which I imagine is a very soft life. Now they are too fat to properly roll up into spiky balls, and have to go on a special diet.

Labels: Cute

Via EK, another Google ad, which I like even better than the cute Paris romance one that ran during the Super Bowl:



Of course once they get into office, they will have to Google "city government budgets" and "dedicated revenue streams for road maintenance" which is less fun than angry letters to the editor.

Google made a whole bunch of these videos. Check them out. But I have to wonder. Does Google really need to advertise?

Labels: Sell Me Something

John Murtha has died. At a time when no would speak up about the war in Iraq, he did.

Labels: Iraq, Obit

CBS won't run advocacy ads, except for right-wing ones. Good to know.

Labels: Sell Me Something

Well the Saints are champs and justice is served for NOLA. I'll have a bourbon to celebrate. I though Peyton was going to cry after that pick. I wouldn't have blamed him.

You know what I love about Bud Light commercials? They create this elaborate alternative universe where Bud Light is a magic substance so tasty that nothing will stop people from having it. In this, the really real world, I wouldn't cross the street for a chance to drink Bud Light. Do you know anyone who would?

UPDATE: A live cam from Bourbon Street. Woo. Party.

Also:

Labels: Football, Sell Me Something

Get your Superbowl prop bets right here. How Many Times will CBS show Kim Kardashian on TV during the Game? (Over/under is 2 1/2) What color will be the gatorade bath be? (Yellow pays 2/1) How long will it take Carrie Underwood to sing the National Anthem? (Over/under is 1 min, 42 sec.)

Labels: Baby Needs a New Pair of Shoes, Football

The movie Rounders came out winter of 1998. I saw it when I was home from college. When I got back to school, everyone else had seen it, and the first thing we did was start up our own home game. It really is amazing what this movie does. It makes you want to play.

Labels: Baby Needs a New Pair of Shoes, Movies, Scenes I Love

I know some who think its too much, but love the new parallel worlds set-up on the final season of Lost. Lost is here to frak with your brain, and frak with it they will. Here's a side by side cut of the two worlds: With the crash and without:

Labels: Alterative History, Lost, TV

I'm proposing a new rule: Unless you advocate cutting some spending that you like, you don't get to complain about the budget deficit.

The world is filled with Congress-critters who go on and on and on about spending, but the moment the budget ax come anywhere close to them, they scream bloody murder. I'm sick of it.

When Mitch McConnell, (R-Coal Country) calls for ending coal mining tax breaks or Ben Nelson (D-Land of Corn) wants cuts in farm subsidies, then they can lecture the rest of on spending. Till then, shut up.

Labels: Better Government Please

An early contenter for the worse ad of 2010:

Labels: Election 2010, Funny Sad or Funny HA HA

Cooperation.

The “underwear bomber” has resumed cooperating with FBI counterterrorism agents and has provided “useful, current” intelligence, a law enforcement source told POLITICO on Tuesday.

Labels: Torture, War of Terror

McCain has changed his stance on ending don't ask, don't tell:

A former war hero, McCain said he would support ending the ban once the military's top brass told him they were okay with it.

"The day that the leadership of the military comes to me and says, 'Senator, we ought to change the policy,' then I think we ought to consider seriously changing it because those leaders in the military are the ones we give the responsibility to," McCain told an audience of college students during the "Hardball" college tour on MSNBC.

Well guess what? That day has come. Defense Secretary and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs both declared in hearings that DADT should end. But McCain still doesn't want to change DADT. And was a real jerk about it today. So what changed? Did gay people become less able to shoot people in the last year? He didn't get it from home, cause his foxy daughter is all for gay rights (I follow her twitter). So what changed? Well, John McCain lost an election last year. He's really pissed about it. We been over this before. You want McCain to support something? Whatever you do, don't kick his ass in an election.

Labels: Gay Means Happy Right?, No John McCain

I find it amazing at this late date in history, Daniel Pipes is still out there banging the drum for war with Iran. As if the last ten years never happened, as if we still aren't dealing with the last two wars, and not well. Keep in mind, if the GOP ever gets back into power Mr. Pipes goes from "crank" to "trusted policy guy." We are always just one election away from disaster.

Labels: Iran, No War Today

I always thought of the Mars Spirit Rover as the little robot that could, but XKCD's take on it almost made me cry:



You are home, little guy.

You are home.

Labels: I Said I Wouldn't Cry, Outer Space

We spend staggering, mind-blowing, gob-smacking amounts of money on defense. $768.2 billion in the new budget. Everybody knows this. We spend more money than the rest of the world combined, including allies like France and Great Britain. The defense budgets of counties that might be considered enemies, like North Korea and Iran, are rounding errors to the Pentagon. We continue, at this late date, to maintain huge military presences in both Germany and Japan, despite WWII being over for a while now and both countries being under threat from no one. If someone was really serious about cutting the Federal Budget, you would have to cut defense. The point is so obvious that even GOP member of the House are forced to concede the point.

Labels: No War Today

There's something about this song that makes people want to sing it:







Which ones best?

Labels: Music