Category Archives: Why we can’t have nice things

Craigslist matchmakers

You! Yes, you! What were you doing last week at White Castle? Is it you striking up the friendly banter in the Wal-Mart line? What you perceive as small talk may actaully be the start of true love! In our continuing quest to find drinking-time amusement, we present the first in a series of posts [...]

Don't put your mouth around that

The fine bloggers – and friend(s) – at SunSentinel.com’s Watch this Now caught an interesting video clip via Videosift.com. Some interesting crazy straw shapes lead WSAZ-TV to assemble the following news package: Relevant movie clips below the fold.

Chris Fowler is an idiot

This Sunday Texas Christian University passed Ball State in the Associated Press poll to place the Cardinals at No. 15 in the standings. They are only 20 or so points behind TCU and that’s ground that can still be made up easily. But at least one AP voter is not going to make it easy [...]

Forget Bill-O, Shepard Smith is FoxNews's Keith

Shepard Smith is at it again, this time attacking an e-mailer who Smith says writes frequently. He reads part of the e-mail, then gets frusterated and goes on a mini-rant. All it needs is a few ‘you sirs’ and a demand for a resignation and it’d be a Keith Olbermann Special Comment. But don’t take [...]

Will she or won't she!? One media news outlet is about to look pretty bad

So yesterday The Guardian, a well respected British news outlet posted an article reporting Hillary Clinton will accept an offer from Barack Obama for the position of Secretary of State.  Today, Politico released an article to try to put the spin to rest, and essentially calls out The Guardian on it’s early reporting of such [...]

Hillary Clinton plans to accept offer for Secretary of State

It’s 2:30 a.m. and Senator Hillary Clinton is being reported as planning to become the next Secretary of State if and when President Elect Barack Obama offers the position.  What kills me is who’s reporting it.  CNN is “your place for politics”… uhuh.. not them.  Fox News reports, you decide… but no decision to be [...]

Spell check can't catch this

The Watertown, S.D. Public Opinion made the following ironic boo-boo in its print edition. [Props @ Joe Huber for sending this along via MMS.]

Pay-for-sex just got pricier!

Internet classifed wonder Craigslist is cracking down on prostitution ads with the help of police in 40 states, The San Jose Mercury news reports. Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal sees this as an excxiting chance for the Interwebs to get its collective karma in check: “There are all kinds of benefits to making the site [...]

Obama hates babies

From the organization that brings you 10 Facts about Counterfeit Marriage (their crafty way of saying same-sex marriage), a new smear against Obama and his support of a woman’s right to choose when it comes to her own body.

Obama's name butchered on NY ballot

Around 300 absentee voters in New York state’s Rensselaer County received ballots with the wrong candidate. Well, it’s kind of close. According to that ballot, the Democratic candidate is Barack Osama, The Times Union said. [Photo goodness at the link.] ”No question this is an honest mistake innocently done,” said Edward McDonough, the Democratic commissioner. [...]