Gay marriage legalized

After a small, brief ceremony the happy couple went on their honeymoon in The Hague, Netherlands.

Speaking of soccer

How about the Iraqi national team getting to the final of the Asian Cup? Now if there was anyone competent in the government we would be using this kind of goodwill for some soccer diplomacy. The message is easy, "See, Shia and Sunni can come together and accomplish a shared goal." Duh. Also, paging MLS, why aren't you guys saying, "Hey, why don't we help you guys set up a league." Granted, MLS is barely surviving on their own but I'm sure any help they could give would be appreciated. I know, I know all of that is more complicated than I make it seem, but fuck, is anyone even trying?

Anyway, congrats to the Iraqis and good luck, I hope you kick some Saudi ass (that's an interesting matchup).

Also, check out Drew Carey saying all the things I want to say to the unenlightened on Letterman:

Well, well

Looks like Freddy is on his way to Portuguese club, Benfica. As recently as Wednesday it looked like the deal had fallen through mostly because it seemed that MLS was asking WAY too much for a transfer fee, $7.5 million (at least that was the number Steven Goff threw out, sorry can't find the post where he said that). Now it looks like the transfer fee is a much more realistic $2 million. Freddy flies to Portugal tomorrow, seems like a done deal. Good for Freddy. He needs to be on a team where he is not the star. Let's just hope he doesn't get Donovan Syndrome. Surprisingly, becasue of the complicated deal that sent Freddy to RSL from DCU means that DC gets $150k and RSL's third round pick next year (which really is nothing). That $150k would be very useful towards the Juan Sebastian Veron to DCU rumors.

Batshit crazy

Rapture Ready: The Unauthorized Christians United for Israel Tour from huffpost and Vimeo.

These guys...

These Are My Wednesday One-Liners, in Whom I Am Well-Pleased
Seated proselytizer: Jesus walked through walls without using the door, and when Jesus touches you, he is inside you and you become like Jesus. So, if you do something to me, I don't need the police. I can just come to your house, because I can get in without keys.

--1 train

Overheard by: thaler

Mexican preacher: Statistics show one in one person will die.

--Times Square

Overheard by: soccerking3t

Religious nut: You have to accept God! His holy grace! His saving grace! He's got all kinds of grace!

--Grand Central

Bible-thumper: There's no way if you wrap citric acid, cola, and carbonation in aluminum foil and stick in in the fridge for a million years it's ever going to evolve into a Coke!

--Tompkins Square Park

Preacher: The best thing you can have on your resume when you die is not that you went to Harvard, not that you have a Ph.D., but that you have eternal life.

--Staten Island Ferry

Overheard by: God requires a resume?


via Overheard in New York, Jul 25, 2007

...need to see this picture.

(picture yoinked from here)

Hey illegal immigrants, screw picking grapes...

you'll make a lot more money proofing ads. Obviously, this is one of those jobs Americans don't want to do.

So True.

Wednesday One-Liners for the Naked Cowboy

Hoochie: Let me tell you, there is a huge difference between a generally good party and a generally good party with naked girls.

--St. Mark's & 2nd Ave

Overheard by: Steve

via Overheard in New York, Jul 25, 2007

Best ads ever

Found this site, some good stuff, especially this. I give it 5 ha-rumphs...well, 4.5 'cause it didn't have this one:

Ray Hudson is, in fact, insanely awesome

Found this post recently and I agree, Ray Hudson can be an incredibly annoying announcer but he does bring a lot of passion and some of the most sublime, nearly unintelligible metaphors you will ever hear. Most of the time you're thinking, "Ray, what the f* are you talking about?" But then he'll bust out with the crazy and your brain does a "Wait, what? What did he just say? OMG, that is the bestest, most convoluted metaphor I've ever heard." Seriously, I've made Peter rewind the game just to hear some crazy thing Ray has said. Even when he was DC United's coach, the team may have played like shite but the quotes were awesome. Don't believe me, check out Ray Hudson Must Die (obviously someone who can't enjoy the absurd).

My favorite on that list:
Here you see him, trickier than a monkey up a monkey tree.
Hudson, 19:09 1st

Seriously, WTF? But I can't help laughing.

Darfur and water troubles

I'm in the process of writing a fairly long post about the commodification of water and the effects of the continuing scarcity of it. Water is poised to become the most precious commodity, so much so that oil would be relegated to the same level as bananas when compared to it (meaning wars for oil will look like border skirmishes in comparison).

I am aware that the situation in Darfur is terrible. However, I am completely ignorant of the reasons behind the conflict. According to this BBC report it's water. Are there other conflicts that foreshadow the looming problem? Kashmir? Nepal? Congo? Las Vegas (there should be a second link here but I can't find it, where was I reading that)?

Those stories about women's colleges are true, aren't they?

That Thing Almost Took Off My Hand Last Time
Student #1: Jess, come here. I need your help.
Student #2: I am not touching your cooter again.

Smith College
Northampton, Massachusetts

via Overheard Everywhere, Jul 16, 2007

Mr. Lee the Cat Photographer

This is so cool. Some dude hooked up a digital camera to his cat and sent him outside with the camera set to take a picture every so many minutes. I want to do this...although it would be pretty boring on Mittens since he rarely goes outside and when he does stays within 50 feet of the door.

Kind of cool

I was able to ask neo-con asshat Bill Kristol a question on a WaPo online discussion. Mine is the very last question he answered.

Just found this

through DCist.

VegDC. Who's up for checking out Java Green. Speaking of vegetarians I've been on the mailing list for this Meetup group for a long time but have never gone, anyone interested in going to one of their events with me?

Sound like LNSers to me...

except that they're riding the bus, I'd imagine that is against the bylaws

For Those Who Think It Tragic That White Birthrates Are Dropping
Old frat boy #1: Yeah, dude, I really need to get my stuff together. I've already graduated college and I still live like I'm in college.
Old frat boy #2: Yeah, don't mess around and end up like Mike* -- he's about to have a second kid. Both of them were mistakes.
Old frat boy #1: Yeah, I always make the girls I have sex with stand on their heads after. I'm so glad that urban legend is true.
Old frat boy #2: Haha, yeah, I always make the girls I hook up with do post-coital jumping jacks.

Metrobus
Washington, DC

Overheard by: Tyler

via Overheard Everywhere, Jul 14, 2007

City Paper cover story of Late Night Shots (LNS), only read this if you are prepared to be thoroughly disgusted, pissed off and possibly homocidal.

Wonkette laughing at these morons since June 2006.

Out of Africa

So I just finished watching Out of Africa again. I last saw it when it came out in theaters (it was in Manassas, so it may have been at the dollar theater a year after it was released) and this is what I remember from the first time:

• I didn't really understand the plot or follow the story line (I think I might have even fallen asleep at times).

• Africa was/is beautiful

• The cinematography was awesome (yes, I noticed that at the tender age of 15 (or 16), it was one of the reasons I think my parents took me to see it)

• The plane scene was incredible, I think that is when I decided I love flying (maybe I just liked it before?).

Here is what I know now:

• Meryl Streep was not “hawt” but strong, independent women are hot.

• Any guy that doesn't have a man-crush on Robert Redford is either psychotically oppressively gay or dead inside or just doesn't like blonds.

• Best line of the movie:

  Hans (Streep's husband, Klaus Maria Brandauer): “You could have asked, Dennis.”

  Dennis (Streep's lover, Robert Redford): “I did. She said yes.”

• The British/Spanish/Dutch/Germans/Italians/French (aw, hell, Europeans)/Americans fucked it all up for the rest of us (meaning future generations of those nationalities and the people they “colonized”).

• Dennis (Redford) came the closest I've seen in a while to expressing my reservations about marriage. (Paraphrase: Would I love you less with or without a piece of paper)

• Karen (Streep) came the closest I've seen in a while to expressing the argument against my reservations. (Paraphrase: No, but at least you would have acknowledged that you have a reason/obligation to be here with me (there is more to it than that, but it's a start)).

• I yearn for a true frontier.

• Europeans/Americans mistook technology, bureaucracy and strict social mores for civilization.

• Africa was/is beautiful

• The cinematography was incredible.

• The plane scene was awesome.

• Coffee can be grown at high altitudes.

I have actually had this happen...more than once

5PM You Mean the Planter?

Blonde salesgirl on phone with IT: My computer is not working.
IT guy: Did you plug everything in right?
Blonde salesgirl: Yes! Of course! The light is on, but nothing's happening. [IT guy goes to her office, bends over, presses power button and walks out.] But the light was on!
IT guy: That's your screen. The computer is the big box on the floor.

Office, Meilleur Street
Montreal
Canadia

Overheard by: ID-10-T

via Overheard in the Office, Jul 12, 2007

My Mascot

Ha-rumph indeed

I'll be there too!

Hillary last Dem candidate to accept the invitation to YearlyKos.

Well, Republicans, are you proud?

There are a lot of things to address from this clip:

1) The power of the internet
2) The myth of the weak Democrats
3) The truth that the Democrats have been and continue to be the party of the lower and middle classes while the Republics have been and continue to be the party of the rich
4) Democrats are for education, Republics are for money
5) Democrats think long-term, Republics are short timers

Yet Another Example

of why the music industry is horrible and deserves to have its product stolen; they make it not worth buying.

F*** Yeah I Am!

My Liberal Identity:

You are an Eco-Avenger, also known as an environmentalist or tree hugger. You believe in saving the planet from the clutches of air-fouling, oil-drilling, earth-raping conservative fossil fools.

Take the quiz at www.FightConservatives.com

This is called proof.

One more false argument the climate change deniers can't use.

Awww yeah, shake it little otter [BARRY WHITE VOICE]

Otters RULZZ!

Holy Horoscope!

Mine is spot on! (Aquarius)

Davezilla's Horoscopes

OH!! SHNAP!!

Michael Moore rips the f* out of Wolf Blitzer and the media in general. Once again, Moore points out the incompetence and complicity of the mainstream media. BONUS: Moore basically endorsed Al Gore. Run Al, run.



UPDATE: Couple links for you, Michael Moore's site, an anecdotal story about audience reaction in Texas, Texas people! In the comments from the audience reaction piece I found these links, One Care Now and Health Care For All, which are specific to California but might be a good model for the rest of the country. Finally, House Resolution 676, introduced by John Conyers, there don't seem to be any bills introduced in the Seanate.

Katie-Brian Wedding in Erie, PA

MWAHAHAHAHA

Someone at DOJ is unhappy.

un-FUCKING-believable

Bush gives a huge "Fuck you" to justice (PDF).

Madam Speaker Pelosi, NOW will you put impeachment back on the table?

Ow!