Archive for August, 2007
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Friday, August 31st, 2007Phone-y Caption Contest(Source: AFP) Other Current Contests:Bullwinkle Blog (I took 3rd Place here last week!)Cowboy BlobGone Rick MotelRight PunditsRodney Dill (I took an Honorable Mention here last week.)RT (I took 4th Place here last week.)WILLismsWizbang Animated Entries:Cowboy Blob (This is brilliant, by the way!) Top Ten Entries:10. This picture was taken just as a participant [...]
The Reason I Bought A PS3
Friday, August 31st, 2007Oh my God! Oh my God!! Oh. My. GOD!!! The release of Medal of Honor: Airborne is only days away.I may have to take the day off from work to stand in line for this!
Ten Years Later: I Still Don’t Get It
Friday, August 31st, 2007Editor’s Note: I am about to piss off a lot of you. Um . . . sorry? LONDON – Princess Diana’s family solemnly marked the 10th anniversary of her death Friday, with her younger son eulogizing her as “the best mother in the world.” The bishop of London used his sermon at a memorial service [...]
Royale With Cheese
Friday, August 31st, 2007Being a film buff, I have an extensive collection of movies in my Fortress of Solitude (read: my basement). Unfortunately, when you have crumb crunchers running around all day and night, it’s difficult to partake in a screening. Thus, I still have a few DVDs that I purchased sight unseen, because a friend recommended it. [...]
Possibly The Funniest Video Ever
Friday, August 31st, 2007I dare you to watch this clip and not laugh. (H/T – RT)
People I Hate
Thursday, August 30th, 2007It’s another lovely Thursday in Philadelphia, And while the Philly Police Department is mopping up the blood of another homicide scene, I figured we should christen this week’s edition of PIH. Senator Larry Craig (R – ID) Wow, it this guy a tool of the highest order, or what? Craig responded to his bathroom-related disorderly [...]
Dangerous Iraq Chemicals Found Stored At U.N.
Thursday, August 30th, 2007“Iraq chemicals?” Oh, this must be a typo, right? Iraq never had chemical warfare agents! John Kerry and Hillary Clinton told me so! UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The United Nations found vials of a chemical warfare agent, which had been removed from Iraq a decade ago, in a U.N. building near the body’s headquarters in [...]
The Most Obvious Survey Ever Conducted
Thursday, August 30th, 2007“Boyfriends Do More Housework Than Husbands” No Shiite. Married men do less housework than live-in boyfriends, finds an international survey. Regardless of the couples’ relative earnings or work hours, cohabiting males reported more household hours than did their married counterparts, while the opposite was true for women, with wives picking up the broom less often [...]
Uncommon Valor
Wednesday, August 29th, 2007I don’t want to depress anyone, but I saw this today at YouTube: the best scene from Black Hawk Down. Arguably the bravest soldiers in American history, Randy Shughart and Gary Gordon received the Congressional Medal of Honor posthumously for their actions in Somalia.
This Date In History
Wednesday, August 29th, 2007How did Captain America miss this? 1885: First Motorcycle Patented. The world’s first motorcycle, made by Gottlieb Daimler, was patented on this day. The two-wheeled vehicle gained immense popularity after 1910, when it was used heavily by all branches of the armed forces during World War I. The motorcycle’s popularity lagged during the Great Depression, [...]
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