Just a quick reminder for all ye land-lubbers who don’t go surrrrrfing the Interwebs on weekends: tomorrow be Talk Like a Pirate Day! P.S. If you want to tweet like a pirate, you can use this auto-tweeting translator. And be sure to tag your tweets with #yarr, so they’ll show up on TweetLikeAPirate.com. For another (non-tweeting) English-to-pirate-speak translator, go here…. Read more »
Back in January, gadget blog Gizmodo stumbled across a Japanese-made action figure of newly elected President Obama. The highly detailed figure included, among many accessories, a lightsaber, as seen in this shot: Yesterday, at a White House event supporting Chicago’s bid for the 2016 Olympics, we found out that this action figure was eerily foresighted, as Obama revealed his Jedi… Read more »
Boss Hog Rush Limbaugh thinks that school buses should be segregated again. Remember folks, this is the leadership of the GOP.
One of the things that’s really frustrating about this particular college football season is that #1-ranked Florida — which, as a defending national champion with most of its key players returning, would be an overwhelming favorite under any circumstances — has such a ridiculously easy schedule that it’s actually quite difficult to envision them losing, never mind losing twice, as… Read more »
Ladies and gentlemen I have some bad news for you. All that good stuff you have been doing? Volunteering in your community? Picking up trash, working in community gardens, putting together care packages for victims of hurricanes or members of our military? Without knowing it you have apparently been feeding the beast of facism! Well, according to Rush Limbaugh anyway…. Read more »
Veteran actor Patrick Swayze, particular famous for his rolls in “Dirty Dancing” and “Ghost”, has passed away after a nearly two year long battle with pancreatic cancer.
It’s a Monday Night party! Loyette’s ready: I made that video a couple of weeks ago, in anticipation of the start of football season, after discovering some months earlier that Loyette could “sing along” with the Monday Night Football theme song (or at least mimic Becky’s and my singing of it). Naturally, because this was super cute, we practiced it… Read more »
Aiming to close down those wasteful big government socialist programs… This sort of thing can’t really be the goal though, can it?
Roger Federer at the U.S. Open: Heh. Good thing Gus Johnson didn’t have the call on that one. I think his head actually would have exploded. (Hat tip: B. Minich.)
Here’s the video: I love Gus Johnson — even though, whenever I hear him call a crazy ending like this, I can’t help thinking of: “RAIVIO!!! LAST CHANCE TO DANCE!!! … HEARTBREAK CITY!!!” etc., etc. Curse you, UCLA! Curse you for (partially) ruining the Best Play-by-Play Announcer In Sports for me.
