David Cho captured this great screen grab of a CNN analyst doing what's really actually important during the last debate between Obama and McCain, which is to read what message was left on his wall by that brunette hottie from his j-school Ethics class at Columbia.
Guess McCain finally got the memo about making eye contact with Senator Obama, because in tonight's debate McCain was all up in Obama's visual eyeballzzz.
Again, low blow but the screen capture is pretty funny. Of course I'm not equating McCain with a megalomaniac intent on taking over the world using sharks with freakin' laser beams, but he's got this Dr. Evil look going on here. Do it McCain. Doo it. Bring that pinky finger up to your face.
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I can understand the confusion during tonight's debate, but at the same time I don't if you are running for President and you're referring to your running mate:
John McCain says Sarah Palin knows a lot about having children with autism. Presumably he thinks she knows more about this than anybody in the country. Presumably he also thinks autism is approximately equal to Down Syndrome.
It's slightly catty, but boy, if Obama had pointed this out... well, coulda, woulda, shoulda.
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There's a restaurant in Chandler, Arizona called Heart-Attack Grill. Their motto: Taste worth dying for!. And it starts with their hamburger.
Note the nurse uniform. I approve that.
The breakdown.
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Check out this clip of a debate between Batman and The Penguin from the old Batman TV series. Wow! Bang! Boom! It sounds eerily familiar! [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l63SRpGXBHE]
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In advance of rumors that Colin Powell would publicly endorse Barack Obama, Fox News apparently decided to go with this photo of Colin Powell doing what I suppose Fox News thinks all black people do.
I can't imagine Fox News posting an equally disrespectful and disingenuous photo of any other 4-star general who was also the former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Secretary of State.
And Fox News' headline for this rumor is "Hip-Hop-Dancing Colin Powell Fuels Speculation He'll Endorse Obama." This is a disgrace and hypocritical for an organization that unquestionably venerates the US armed forces and their personnel and leaders.
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This bird's-eye view of Kutztown University in Pennsylvania was the first image ever seen by the GeoEye-1, the world's highest-resolution commercial satellite sponsored by Google, when it opened its camera door earlier this week.
The 4,300-pound satellite collected the image at noon EDT on Oct. 7 while moving from the north pole to the south pole in a 423-mile-high orbit at 17,000 miles per hour, or 4.5 miles per second. The spacecraft can take photos at a resolution of up to 41 cm -- close enough to zoom in on the home plate of a baseball diamond, according to Mark Brender, GeoEye's vice president of communications and marketing.
So crisp.
I can't lie. I'm too scared to click on the links below. Please do so and let me know what unimaginably nasty things you encountered there.
Does this look infected to you? A Flickr pool that taps into the same part of your brain that makes you slow down to stare at a car accident. NSFL (lunch).
Some details from Maureen McCormick aka Marcia Brady's new tell-all book:
- She had a romance with TV sibling Barry Williams.
- She dated Michael Jackson and Steve Martin. She says she made out with Martin.
- She engaged in cocaine binges and parties at the Playboy Mansion and the home of Sammy Davis Jr.
- She ended an unwanted pregnancy.
- She traded sex for drugs.
F'n crazy.
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New Jersey Nets Devin Harris gets straight schooled streetball style in a quick one-on-one game with some white English dude wearing dapper V-neck sweater and jeans. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ysv3v7uXblw]
Apparently the British guy is actually a legit street ball player. Kind of like the British version of And1's The Professor.
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Slide from I guess this is a little old, but it's still funny. MadTV spoofs "So You Think You Can Dance" by featuring a dance off between Obama and McCain (played hilariously by Bobby Lee).
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Pilot wifey Jessica Stam is studying for her pilot's license and has already logged a few hours in the cockpit. I think that is great. Why should you care?
Jessica Stam also happens to be a Victoria Secret model and this story is an excuse to post a couple photos of her, which I think will be a nice respite for all of us from the election related stress.
[Insert joke about Mile High Club here]
Photos after the jump.
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Following last week's steep decline, today the DJIA experienced "the biggest single-day percentage gain in 75 years" after "governments and central banks around the world mounted an aggressive, coordinated campaign to unlock the global flow of credit, an effort that investors said they had been waiting for."
Paul Krugman (now Nobel winner), on his blog, posted this cartoon which was published in The Economist in 1987, but it seems very relevant today in an attempt to rationally explain the heck is going with the financial markets.
