I'm super-busy right now, but this is a beautiful thing:



Also: For easy reference, a roundup of outright lies in (and around) Palin's convention speech.

Today's fun fact: There are fewer people in the whole state of Alaska than there are in the city of San Francisco.

Oh, Victoria Jackson. Why are you so crazy?


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Greyhound has decided to pull this ad campaign . . .


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Prince Charles's cars run on biodeisel from cooking oil.

Well, except the Aston Martin, which runs on wine.

The upcoming Bollywood blockbuster Incredible Love is set to costar Kareena Kapoor, Ashkay Kumar, and -- oh yes, did I mention? -- Sylvester Stallone and Arnold SchwarzeneggerUnsurprisingly, under the circumstances, it also has the highest budget ever for a Bollywood film. It's apparently "the story of an Indian stuntman who takes Hollywood by ( Read more... )

OK, in both of these cases I have my own strong feelings about the issues at stake, but I'd just like to raise two points of order about things in the news that seem crazy to me.

Point of Order #1: Opponents of same-sex marriage are asking the court to delay granting marriage licenses to same-sex couples in anticipation of a proposition that may ( Read more... )

Bloggez-vous? Oui, je blog:

The duck-billed platypus: somehow, even weirder than we thought.

Cracked.com gives us the 6 creepiest comic book characters of all time.

Etymology, like so many things, is better with cleavage.

This is far and away the best take I've heard yet on the Clinton campaign's minimal reaction to Geraldine Ferraro saying that Obama would naver have come this far if he was white. I was actually crying a little bit by the end of this commentary ( Read more... )

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Via The Drudge, um, Retort (you see what they did there?):

A professor at Jerusalem's Hebrew University has concluded that Moses was high on drugs when he came up with that stuff about not coveting your neighbor's ass.