Joe The Plumber gets bitch slapped on CNN

Amen, Rick Sanchez. He over does the "you know that guy" bit but otherwise he's dead on, man.

CAT VS TECHNOLOGY

The funny thing is... this is exactly how I try to fix my printer when it has problems...

GET IT ON

I have nothing to say other than this made me laugh. It didn't get me to buy condoms though.

OUR ELECTORAL SYSTEM - AN INTELLIGENT DEBATE

To be honest... this doesn't seem all that different from the 'serious' cable news coverage of complex issues. Substitute Ann Coulter and Paul Begala and the effect is the same.

I fear for our future.

EXECUTIVE KOALA

I have no idea what they're saying but I'm dying to know.

From what I understand the plot involves a 6-foot tall talking koala who is an executive at a pickle manufacturing plant. Charming with the ladies and oh-so furry he may also be a brutal killer. Or so his boss, a white rabbit begons to suspect.

This movie looks unreal.... in that way that only Japanese movies can be.

RICARDO MONTALBAN R.I.P.

Khan! While he's best known for his iconic villian in Star Trek: Wrath Of Khan (still the best of the Trek films) and the amiable wish-granter Mr. Roarke in Fantasy Island (not to mention his Cordoba commercials), Montalban masterfully played the latin lover in many a Hollywood studio film in the 30s and 40s. He was 88 when he died.

The man not only had a lush and sonorous voice, everything about him exuded class and sophistication. He was also a helluva dancer.

Check him out in this version of La Bamba. Just wonderful!

PATRICK McGOOHAN R.I.P.

For those of you who have seen The Prisoner or The Secret Agent no other explanation is necessary. He will be missed.

For those of you who only know him from Bravehear as the ruthless King Longshanks, go to AMC's site and watch a few episodes of the brilliant and bizarre The Prisoner, a show he not only starred in but helped to create. I'm not ashamed to say that I have no idea what his final episode is trying to say.

His annunciation was to die for (see his villian in Silver Streak) and he always brought a bit of macabre class to the episodes of Columbo that he appeared in.

Here's a taste:

HOW ROBOTS EVOLVE

Dang those German's have cool commercials!

DEATH BY BLACK HOLE

...or spaghettification. Entertaining, fascinating, horrible.

Astrophysicist Neil DeGrasse Tyson may well be the most entertaining astrophysicist I've ever listened to. Admittedly that sample size is shockingly small.

ONLY IN FLORIDA

The blessed place of my birth. For some reason after I left all the freaks moved in. And then they got George Bush installed as President. Man, I hate that place.

1. Woman arrested for hitting self with frying pan. Huh? (with mugshot goodness)
2. "Please close your legs, sir." Man arrested for Xmas peep show.
3. Oh, the shoe-manity!
4. For thosetimes when you want to send the right message may I suggest urine?
5. She says: I was fired 'cuz I said Merry Christmas. He says: She was fired because she's a crazy bitch.

Of course, in Oregon, where I lived for nearly a decade, the locals are mad of sterner stuff. Case in point, this headline:

"Oregon woman, 88, fends off naked intruder by grabbing the man's crotch and squeezing."

Man, I miss Portland.

WHY I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO SENATOR AL FRANKEN

I only hope public office doesn't turn him into an earnest dullard.

God, Bill O'Reilly must just be going bananas that his Number Two nemesis just got elected to the Senate. Now, if only Keith Olbermann would run for something.

WHAT WE NEED IS MORE RUDE SIGNS, NOT LESS

When I lived in Seattle --and I know this is totally childish-- I used to giggle uncontrollably every time I passed the I-5 Freeway sign indicating the exit to Nooksack, WA. Inevitably I'd say something like, "I once got kicked in the nooksack. Man did that hurt." My buddy Jeff S would almost balways laugh. It's proof positive that dick and fart jokes never lose their potency for men.

Anyway, my drive from Vancouver BC to Seattle would have so much less fun had some idiot moralist decided that the Nooksack sign had to go because it might offend someone. What would the world be without Cracknuts Lane or Cockburn Road? (Ooo, that's gotta hurt!)

Let's hope that no one reads about this wee bit o' English madness and starts getting ideas.

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GAY APPLIANCES

"Double ended male "adapters" are illegal, dangerous, a fire hazard, and possible [sic]immoral. If you have need of this "adapter" you have hung a string of lights backwards."

Bet you didn't know that plug adapters could be, well, limp wristed. If they had a wrist. Which they don't. But they are still, quite obviously, sinful. Dirty, filthy adapters that pervert our electrical system.

This sign spotted in an ACE Hardware. I love that the manager felt the need to illustrate his point.

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LOVE IT!

Now this is a kid's show!

SOMETHING BEAUTIFUL FOR A CHANGE



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IF YOU'RE MUSLIM AND YOU TALK ABOUT ENGINES - YOU'RE A TERRORIST

Just like the guy with gloves who dropped off his mail at the post office too hastily.

Read about the villains here.
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YEAH, WE'RE THAT PATHETIC

Guy owes 5 cents to the IRS. Really. Then is gets weirder. Read about it here.

Good think they're expending their resources so wisely.
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WEARING GLOVES AND DROPPING OFF MAIL = TERRORISM

Obviously.

Are we really this pathetic?
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MINNESOTA'S NEXT SENATOR?

Looks pretty likely that Al Franken will get the voter's nod, winning by 200 odd votes. Thank goodness. Norm Coleman is a major sleazebag who needed to be bitch slapped out of office. He's the exact kind of political weasel that just makes my head veins pop.

Plus, I just like the idea of a senator who once did something like this...