Apparently, the super-rich are highest on the Republican's priority list, even higher than the 9/11 first responders they claim to love so much. "Since when does the Republican party make 9/11 first responders stand over in the corner with the gays and Mexicans?"



Can it be more obvious that Republican's core principle = money? (And if it's not, they're sure going about things the wrong way.)

SNL is hit or miss (OK, lots of misses) but the "human parking cone" was one of the funniest things I've heard in a while.

Roger Ebert has a pretty active Twitter account with often interesting links. However, I noticed that links to his personal Sun Times blog sometimes have ugly or bizarre URLs. This one was especially bad, with the page being not-quite-HTML-code for four nonbreaking spaces (emphasis mine, obviously):

blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/strange-3/nbsp-nbsp-nbsp-nbsp-my.html

I wasn't sure what point I was going to make with this, other than it's bad SEO practice to have poorly-named URLs ... not to mention it's almost impossible to tell anybody that link short of of copying and pasting. So let me switch gears to what's actually on that page:

It's an interview with a hand model — and she's pretty cocky about them (almost comically so) — whose hands have never seen the light of day for 15 years. She doesn't do anything with her hands — no cooking, cleaning, sports, gardening ... not even opening windows — and she wears gloves everywhere she goes. It kind of blew my mind; check it out at Ebert's ugly-URL page.

And of course, that interview only reminds me of George Costanza's similar modeling career.

So I'm sitting here — sitting! — reading kottke.org and he points to this:

Phys Ed: The Men Who Stare at Screens

"Men who spent more than 23 hours a week sitting had a 64 percent greater chance of dying from heart disease than those who sat for 11 hours a week or less. What was unexpected was that many of the men who sat long hours and developed heart problems also exercised. Quite a few of them said they did so regularly and led active lifestyles. The men worked out, then sat in cars and in front of televisions for hours, and their risk of heart disease soared, despite the exercise. Their workouts did not counteract the ill effects of sitting."

I guess Homer was right:

A little Star Wars nerdery via I Love Charts: an assortment of underachieving AT-ATs. (Love the Subaru BRAT-AT.)



Update: these (and other cartoons) were actually done by Lunchbreath.

I didn't know who German filmmaker Werner Herzog was until I recently saw Grizzly Man. (Sidenote: that movie was not what I expected.) Now that I'm familiar with him, I find these readings of children's books by "Herzog" hilarious:

"Werner Herzog Reads Mike Mulligan And His Steam Shovel"


"Werner Herzog Reads Curious George"

Cute joke, but it's her laugh that really gets me every time.

It might be the remaining NyQuil in my system clouding my judgement, but this video was the funniest thing I've seen in years:

Christoph Niemann uses leaves to illustrate ideas. (via kottke)

Sounds like shitmydadsays is watching ESPN baseball.

Random thoughts from 25-35 year olds (via jchausse) had some pretty funny things in the list.

There is a great need for sarcasm font.

It really pisses me off when I want to read a story on CNN.com and
the link takes me to a video instead of text.

Whenever someone says "I'm not book smart, but I'm street smart",
all I hear is "I'm not real smart, but I'm imaginary smart".

That's enough, Nickelback.

Also, it had the third "beer pong" reference I've heard in three days (the others being during a visit to my brother's new house and the latest episode of This American Life). The sad thing is I don't even know what beer pong is, which should tell you what a quiet college life I led.

Flip Flop Fly Ball is kind enough to provide a public service to the younger generation of baseball cap wearers: Ballcap sticker removal provides the instructions needed for removing the sticker from your new hat. Thanks Flip Flop Fly Ball!

So, are there any Sox fans who are still complaining about swapping Manny for Bay?

Also...

Jill was watching this tonight and I had to include it. Funny stuff...

If I remember correctly, when disagreement was expressed about [Bush's] actions when y'all were in power, I believe the response was: "Why do you hate America? Watch what you say. Love it or leave it. Suck on my Truck Nutz."

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The latest episode of Tim and Eric Awesome Show Great Job! chronicled the 1996 failed launch of timanderic.com. It ended with an uplifting little song that may come in handy for me someday, to put things back into perspective:

And I thought Joe Morgan was bad. Here's Dustin Pedroia batting with the count 1-yellow and 1-blue:

Tim & Eric Awesome Show Great Job is bizarre & hilarious. One recent bit that consistently cracks me up is when they took a bit of a janitor's tirade and used Auto-Tune to make it a song:



This clip is from the bizarre Cinco Travel Urinal Shower video.

...courtesy of The Onion:

Bush Spends Day Feverishly Booby-Trapping Desk

Vice Presidential Handlers Lure Cheney Into Traveling Crate

Bush Tours America To Survey Damage Caused By His Disastrous Presidency

Bush Tours America To Survey Damage Caused By His Disastrous Presidency

Very funny video of Katie Couric interviewing Sarah Palin:

Couric: What newspapers and magazines did you regularly read before you were tapped for this, to stay informed and to understand the world?
Palin: I read most of them, again, with a great appreciation for the press, for the media...
Couric: But, like, what ones specifically, I'm curious, did you...?
Palin: Uh, all of them. Any of them.

Sadly, her answer reminds me of Homer Simpson:

Horst: You have been safety inspector for two years. What initiatives have you spearheaded in that time?
Homer: Uh...all of them?

Oh yeah, and when Terry Tate tackled her. That was funny, too.