dhm!

Thanks, BBC.

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 14:38:53 -0400

Thanks, BBC.

"WHO IS IT THAT SAID HILLARY’S TOUGH CAMPAIGN CAN’T BEAT OBAMA’S HOPE? YOU?"

Sun, 09 Mar 2008 13:28:00 -0400

“WHO IS IT THAT SAID HILLARY’S TOUGH CAMPAIGN CAN’T BEAT OBAMA’S HOPE? YOU?”

- Here’s another Wonkette email, this one posted by Jim. Not sure if these are real or not, but I’m going to have to go with: Probably.

"Hilory Clinton has RODHAM POWER."

Sun, 09 Mar 2008 13:25:43 -0400

“Hilory Clinton has RODHAM POWER.”

- An emailer to Wonkette

Just arrived in my mailbox: Britney on the cover of...

Fri, 07 Mar 2008 14:37:53 -0500

Just arrived in my mailbox: Britney on the cover of April’s Atlantic.

Wonkette’s Cartoon Violence on John McCain (in this...

Fri, 07 Mar 2008 13:06:00 -0500

Wonkette’s Cartoon Violence on John McCain (in this cartoon): “Scientists have tentatively classified John McCain as member of family Sciuridae, based on the large, protruding skin flaps around his mouth; however, among field researchers, this is still controversial.”

Mike Jensen writes in the Inquirer today about Philadelphia...

Thu, 06 Mar 2008 22:56:00 -0500

Mike Jensen writes in the Inquirer today about Philadelphia basketball players in Europe. There are a ton of Philly ballers overseas, some of whom make decent cash; most recently, Lynn Greer left the Milwaukee Bucks to sign a two-year, $7 million contract with Olympiakos, a Greek club.

Above, Rashid Atkins (known as Rashid Bey when he played at Saint Joseph’s) is interviewed by Polish TV. He makes six figures and outearns his wife, who has a finance and bio degree from Penn. “That’s Wall Street money,” he told the Inky.

"dmac just name dropped you in a post about pedophiles. i am so proud to be your friend."

Wed, 05 Mar 2008 14:58:03 -0500

“dmac just name dropped you in a post about pedophiles. i am so proud to be your friend.”

- Comment on Chrissy’s Livejournal

"He released the news in a brief but eloquent manner on his QB Killa Web site."

Wed, 05 Mar 2008 14:35:36 -0500

“He released the news in a brief but eloquent manner on his QB Killa Web site.”

- My favorite sentence of the day comes from Matt Mosley, on his Hashmarks blog. Warren Sapp, self-proclaimed QB Killa, was eloquent: “I’M DONE!”

The Atlantic’s Matthew Yglesias posts this chart comparing...

Wed, 05 Mar 2008 12:49:00 -0500

The Atlantic’s Matthew Yglesias posts this chart comparing Pennsylvania’s demographics (or democraphics) with Ohio and the United States. Hey, we have a higher percentage of Bachelor’s degrees than Ohio! And way more old people!

Pennsylvania (and Philadelphia) will be ground zero for both campaigns until the April 22 primary. I will no doubt be inundated with propaganda from supporters of both Obama and Clinton unless they follow this brilliant idea.

Yglesias writes the state is demographically favorable to Clinton, but says if Obama wins here, Clinton is done. Does it play in Pottsville?

I watch bad TV (and Price is Right)

Wed, 05 Mar 2008 10:45:52 -0500

I’ve been working at home more recently — it’s winter — instead of walking into the office and my morning television regimen has boiled down to this: pre-9 a.m., Good Day Philadelphia (for, uh, Jennaphr Frederick); 9 a.m. Morning Show With Mike & Juliet (for the unintentional comedy); 10 a.m. Rachel Ray (for Rachel Ray’s occasional brief lapses into insanity); 11 a.m. The Price is Right (because it’s The Fucking Price is Right).

I used to watch CNN, but I can’t stomach the election anymore; before CNN I’d watch SportsCenter, but I can’t stomach SportsCenter anymore.

Dogs are always serious business

Tue, 04 Mar 2008 12:47:56 -0500

Look, more Gawker drama. Everybody is watching the video of an American soldier throwing a puppy, which is on Valleywag. (I lamely just reposted this in a comment over there earlier today.) But Gawker posted it yesterday, then apologized and took it down.

Yes, it is pathetic to recount this. But this is work: I’m not going to rest ‘til I figure out if Valleywag headlines like “Jimmy Wales’s other other women. Gah!

Every Internet discussion involving harm done to dogs will invariably lead to (1) bodily harm and/or...

Tue, 04 Mar 2008 10:38:10 -0500

Every Internet discussion involving harm done to dogs will invariably lead to (1) bodily harm and/or death wished upon the perpetrators and (2) a discussion of how our society values dogs over humans.

Senator Tom Harkin: Marijuana Makes People Sell Their Children

Tue, 04 Mar 2008 08:43:08 -0500

Senator Tom Harkin: Marijuana Makes People Sell Their Children:

A U.S. senator comments on one of marijuana’s plausible doomsday scenarios, “the small child whose parents are so addicted to illegal drugs that they sell everything including perhaps their own children to obtain a fix.”

As The Comment Section Turns...

Mon, 03 Mar 2008 14:08:00 -0500

As The Comment Section Turns...:

According to this post by Rob, a writer on Deadspin called the boss of a commenter who offended him. Once again, sports bloggers prove they can do the job of the regular sports media.

My victorious quizzo team last week, Archie Hamburger’s...

Mon, 03 Mar 2008 11:54:10 -0500

My victorious quizzo team last week, Archie Hamburger’s Blowback Chicken Army. Not sure why I’m rockin’ the anonymous look, but I dig it.

Stylish Blight! The NYT has a slide show about a building...

Mon, 03 Mar 2008 10:33:33 -0500

Stylish Blight! The NYT has a slide show about a building designed to look blighted that’s actually an architecture office.

Uhh, thanks, CNN, for making me feel like such a psycho.

Sun, 02 Mar 2008 17:49:13 -0500

Uhh, thanks, CNN, for making me feel like such a psycho.

Online Scrabble Craze Leaves Game Sellers at Loss for Words

Sun, 02 Mar 2008 11:42:00 -0500

Online Scrabble Craze Leaves Game Sellers at Loss for Words:

The NYT asks: Why is Scrabulous so popular? People weren’t going out and causing a run on toy stores to grab copies of Scrabble. (They also don’t give a real answer, unfortunately.)

Philadelphia: 9th Most Murderous City

Sat, 01 Mar 2008 22:49:44 -0500

Philadelphia: 9th Most Murderous City:

Another in Forbes’ ever-popular Pointless Ranking of Cities to Get Web Traffic series.

The ‘chart describing thing usually not described with...

Sat, 01 Mar 2008 22:11:58 -0500

The ‘chart describing thing usually not described with chart’ thing has been done (see: Pac-Man pie chart) but this this Flickr Song Chart group has some amusing ones. Also good: Documented occurences of Satanic wagers, 1979.