Excerpt from “Play-by-Play of Classic Sports Rivalries If the Team Names Actually Represented the Combatants. And Also, Instead of Playing the Sport, They’re Fighting to the Death” Giants vs. Dodgers “It’s a classic David vs. Goliath matchup as an old-fashioned trolley-dodger from turn-of-the-century Brooklyn takes on—this match is over!” Browns vs. Steelers “Now what are we looking at here?” “I couldn’t tell you.” Check out more McSweeney’s Lists.
From 1901, when everyone carried a cane or umbrella — for defensive purposes only, of course — a Pearson’s Magazine article on stick-fighting moves for the well-dressed assailant. Link courtesy of Boing Boing
You’d think, when putting together the dictionary for random spam subject lines, they’d get rid of certain words that spam filters won’t like: [thrusting] 84% off Vicodin. asteroids shadowy I got this one today, and I still don’t know if the first verb is supposed to have something to do with the 84% off part. :)
Despite Alberto Gonzales’ role in the attempted justification of torture by this Administration, Republicans still voted for him in a straight party-line vote after his confirmation hearing in the Senate Judiciary Committee. You know, I used to be Republican. I’ve found I can’t call myself that anymore without being ashamed when loyalty to the party means condoning torture. How are the Republicans — the party of “patriotism” — becoming so unpatriotic as to tacitly accept an un-American value as torture in the name of retaining power in Washington? ...
Great game, particularly seeing it from the sixth row. Duke was #1, and UNC had lost twelve straight games to them. Women’s basketball tickets at UNC are a very good buy.
I appear to be shorter (5'6") than almost every famous modern male. Makes me feel like a hobbit. Of course, I have to wonder about some of the reported heights. Bea Arthur is only 5'9"? For that matter, Cher is 5'4"? That’s the same height as Alan Ladd. (Seriously. They used to have him stand on things to look taller than his female costars. Except for Veronica Lake. 4'11". The Glass Key. Good movie.) I personally think the best height is for Charles Schulz. They report him as 5'12". :) ...
Not as bad as it could have been. :)
So how were Superman creators Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster paying the bills when they were coming up with that revolutionary idea? Why, drawing the comic adventures of Slam Bradley, private detective and racist thug, of course! Ben-San Arizona shares a few choice panels from his collection of old Detective Comics (before Batman took over). Courtesy of Daily Scans
First, we teach them to fly fighter planes. Then we enable them to assemble small robotic parts. I, for one, do not welcome our future rat cell overlords. Link courtesy of Boing Boing
Another writer makes the mistake of assuming faith is only present in religious belief and gets called on it in a review by Reason. If faith is “belief in things unseen” — the definition I grew up with — it’s not hard to see that we run a substantial portion of our lives on faith. And if that is the case, it’s pretty obvious that just because some people do bad things because of their religious faith doesn’t somehow mean it is qualitatively different when others do bad things because of their faith in a utopian system, a strong leader, or Jodie Foster finally noticing them if they just assassinate that president. ...