Justin Timberlake's version of "Dick in a Box" updated for this year's presidential election. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MksTs29bjNI]
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Hailing from the island of Borneo, Chan Chew Lun, a Malaysian naturalist discovered a stick bug that measures 22 inches long (including the legs) setting a new record of the world's longest insect.
The species has been named Phobaeticus chani, meaning "Chan's megastick," in honor of the naturalist.
That's what she said.
Frank Rich writes:
As the G.O.P.’s long night of the long knives begins, myths are already setting in among the right’s storm troops and the punditocracy alike as to what went wrong. And chief among them are the twin curses of Bush and the “headwinds” of the economy. No Republican can win if the party’s incumbent president is less popular than dirt, we keep being told, or if a looming Great Depression 2 is Issue No. 1.
This is an excuse, not an explanation. It absolves McCain of much of the blame and denies Obama much of the credit for their campaigns. It arouses pity for McCain when he deserves none. It rewrites history.
Ricky Gervais is one cocky funnymofo. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZp6cR4bxbY]
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Photograph by St Stev
On Tuesday I was at West Village bar Employees Only with my friend Lea. By the main entrance of the bar, a fortune teller sits offering her ability to read one's future and fortunes.
Lea went to use the bar's restroom and found herself waiting in line behind the fortune teller.
"Is someone in there?" Lea asked her.
"Yes."
After some time, Lea asked the fortune teller again if she was sure there was someone using the restroom. The fortune teller confirmed again that there was and pushed the door expecting it to be locked.
It wasn't.
The restroom was empty.
When I see that kid, I'm gonna crack that big fucking nose of his...and then I'm gonna tell him 'Say hi to your mother for me. I'm gonna get on a plane tomorrow, I'm gonna go down to 30 Rock or wherever the fuck they shoot that show, he probably doesn't have a dressing room so I have to find him in the cafeteria or wherever, and I'm gonna slap him in the big nose. Tune in, I gauran-fuckin-tee you. - Douchebag Marky Mark unable to take a joke.
Great fake tilt-shift photo of Fenway, the site of a thrilling and historic come from behind win last night by the Boston Red Sox.
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A Viriginian registered Republican writes:
Ignorant Christian Fascism is not a recipe for success, it's Saudi Arabia under a different prophet. Count me out. Despite differing with the Democratic platform on a great number of policies, I will gladly vote for the Obama ticket because at a minimum it promises adults at the helm, a rational approach to policymaking, the return of science over theocracy, the restoration of the primacy of the rule of law, and the creative destruction of that assemblage once known as the GOP.
Washington Post endorses Barack Obama "without ambivalence" for president:
Here the choice is not a close call. Mr. McCain has little interest in economics and no apparent feel for the topic. His principal proposal, doubling down on the Bush tax cuts, would exacerbate the fiscal wreckage and the inequality simultaneously. Mr. Obama's economic plan contains its share of unaffordable promises, but it pushes more in the direction of fairness and fiscal health.
Read more here.
I will be in DC all this weekend getting into hopefully a good adventure with The Alaskan. One in particular will involve a kite, bunch of LED lights, and three cameras in action. But definitely NOT 2 girls and 1 cup. Until then, enjoy:
[Thanks Annie!]
Fun brain game that tests your geometric and eye balling skillz. [Via]
This is my take (Thanks Microsoft Paint!) on this rapidly circulating photograph of John McCain at the end of last night's debate. I noticed this last night when I was watching the debates and twittered to see if anyone else observed it as well.
"What's the straight talk express? The short school bus?" Hah! This spoof of Barack Obama backstage before and after the debate had me loling.
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[Thanks N!]
The Sartorialist captures the precocious stubbornness of this sparkling child:
