And We're Back...........

Almost a week later, we know, we know. To catch up:

• LiLo gets called a "firecrotch," then Brandon Davis apoligizes. What a nice guy. Seriously.
• Wait, is that really Gisele's dad? Oh, Ron Burkle ... I don't really understand his appeal. I know he his a billionaire and all, and, well, that's appealing to mostly everyone, but he's old and he's pals with Clinton and Leo D's ex is a hanger-on? I just don't get some things, apparently.
  
• Hear that woman? Yea, it's the alarm to take your better-not-get-pregnant pill. Oh, and stop complaining about my farts.
• Oh, and while you're at that....don't forget to wax. Or at least watch the YouTube.
  
• Uh, what exactly is a dudess, Mr. President?

Hazing.....OMG

Quick comments on this hazing thing that was going on last week as we were moving our blogging homebase from one northeastern state to another. I really don't think it is a big deal that college-aged kids who agreed to participate in a hazing event did so. They are adults, of an age where they completely realzie what they are doing. It is no surprise to anyone involved. Do sometimes things get out of hand? Yes, absolutely. But in the same vein, don't things sometimes get out of hand in sports, don't sometimes things get out of hand when someone is driving on the highway? Yes, absolutely. Things get out of hand all the time in all sorts of ways. Why this idiot over at BadJocks is raiding Webshots albums and posting pictures of girls in sports bras and faces covered in Sharpie, I don't know. Maybe he didn't get laid in college by the girls on the lax team. I can only speculate. Overall, hopefully this gets out of the news quickly, I see no reason why this should continually be big news. It happens.

Best High Schools in America

Really interesting article in the Times today regarding Newsweek's ranking of the best high schools in the country. The rankings are totally based on the number of AP tests that are administered not on scoring or any other objective measurement. Interestingly enough, the claims this is a pretty freaking dumb idea, and I tend to agree. Perhaps the ranking should be totally based on the number of successful scores (>=3 we'll say) per school. Or we can even break that down to average score per student, or per student taking an AP test. There's plenty of different ways to measure, but the one that Newsweek chose is definitely not the right one.

"AhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhHHHHHHHH ... good aftahnoon ev-wee-buddy!"

Next Thursday is a Mets day game against Philly and in an event to raise some money for charity, Mike and the Mad Dog will be broadcasting the game live from Shea instead of the usual Mets announcers, Howie Rose and Tom McCarthy. As you well know, Mike and Chris usually do the afternoon drive show on WFAN and neither of them are Mets fans. Francesca is a hah-uge Yankees fan and Dog is a rabid (ha!) Giants fan. (Check out this piece by The Sports Guy Bill Simmons just last Friday when he live-blogged a normal show. It's priceless.) This has to be the worst idea the FAN has ever had. Mike and Chris aren't play by play guys, not even color guys, this will no doubt be the most terrible Mets broadcast ever. God help us if Pedro throws a no-hitter that day. Thank god I'm planning on being there.

Quick Brain Dump

Bush speech early on CNN - Video [YouTube]

Regis Philban is so out of touch that he doesn't know that the headlines on the Post and the News are referencing Britney's first hit. In other NY gossip rag news, the HuffPo mocks the fact that both papers had the incident. Are they just stupid or can they not realize that real news can be obtained from the Times?! (CNN page since edited - original text: "Regis Philbin said on "Live With Regis and Kelly" that he thought it was a coincidence to have similar headlines. Ripa had to explain to him that it was the title of a Spears song.")

As much as I hate the current administration, China and Saudi Arabia just suck. Nothing like going to jail for 12 yrs for posting on the Internet....oh wait.

Don't Be Silly, Protect Your Willy

Guess what? Kids have sex. Even kids who take virginity pledges, oh well - guess that was bullshit anyway. A recent study by the fine folks up in Cambridge has discovered that most (a majority!) - 52% - who take an abstinance pledge disavowed it within a year. In fact, 73% denied they even took the oaths. I guess that shit's not working well.

Oh those KD's

Hey Andy, want another reason Joakim Noah and Co. are returning to sunny Florida? I think Deadspin has the right idea....

A little Mets news...

All this Billy Wagner vs. Philadelphia buildup and he doesn't even pitch. Letdown.

Internet Poker Booming...Oh wait a second...

The Hartford Courant this past Sunday had the groundbreaking story that ... gasp .... hold on to your seats now, that Internet Poker...may be addictive. Needless to say that America's Oldest Continually Published Newspaper might just be on to something here. That is, if it was 2003. Where the hell have they been for the last three years. Poker's popularity surged, and as quicky, retreated to the large empty rooms at Foxwoods and the Taj as quickly as a South Asian Tsunami. And unfortunately for us, Annie Duke is no Petra Nemcova.

Hottest girls ever, Redux

Thanks SI for the gratuitous photos as of late. Three Victoria's Secret models.... (Adrianna, Alessandra, and Gisele (l. to r.)). Do you think that Alessandra is a little bummed that she actually has to wear that silly credential?

David Plain

Yea, I agree, holding one's breath for more than seven minutes is pretty impressive. But the man was living in a human acquarium for a week while ABC used every one of its shows to plug a two-hour spectacular that TiVo could have pared down to about 9 minutes worth of actual interesting television. His hands and feet emerged whiter than President Logan's face when he heard that Jack Bauer had escaped the Marine perimeter and more wrinkly than a pair of khakis I found in a corner of my college dorm last year. Gross, indeed. But as Uncle Grambo writes, his failure might have been the best thing possible. You watched this year, partially hoping he would start to go under, wave off the help, keep trying, maybe get enough water into his lungs to smack some sense into the guy. Nope, he failed, but he went out trying, as Stu Scott (could there have been a more perfect host?) had to remind us so many times - this was going to be dangerous. But the question for ABC and Blaine remains, the next time he makes a spectacle of himself - and frankly what hasn't he buried/submerged himself in at this point - are you going to watch? That is what will determine how many more models David can sleep with and how much more money Bob Iger lines his pockets with.

The Greatest Accomplishment in 6+ Years, Thus Far

The President, in a interview conducted in Germany over the weekend, detailed the proudest moment of his administration. What was it, you ask? Not winning a second term, not "winning" the war in Iraq, but instead it was:

"I would say the best moment of all was when I caught a 7.5-pound perch in my lake,"

The proudest moment of the most powerful man in the world was catching a fucking fish in his own stocked lake. Not coincidentally, the ole approval ratings of Mr. Prez have hit a new low.

So Yummy...

Hottest Brunettes in the World (a.k.a. my Heaven)
Gisele, Three Pics of: Super Hot Victoria's Secret Super Models (Alessandra Ambrosio & Izabel Goulart) [GoldenFiddle]

Don't We All Have Better Things To Do...

A Top 25 list? Of hot girls? Dear teachers and school administrators, who the hell cares....why don't you just teach the kids and make sure they don't kill each other.... [WPXI]

Mel Kiper, Jr., a man who's sole job is to make sure he knows about 400 college football players and can list them in terms of NFL-goodness has been upended by a lowly former Giants DB who has worked for a handful of networks. So says the Gray Lady, who claimed the top 10 pick coverage by the NFL network was superior to that of the Worldwide Leader. While my TV was tuned to ESPN for draft coverage by pretty much everyone who works for Disney last Saturday, I can only say that the draft is the draft. Anyone who cared was reading about the picks, listening to the radio while 2 guys in a studio yelled at each other .. about the picks, or watched on TV while two to four analysts/former players discussed the picks. Me thinks there was a tad of draft overkill in the two proceeding weeks, but we have to realize we are a NFL country, and the national pasttime has dropped to numero dos. [via whatevs.org]

333 Days to the 07 Final Four

Joe Lunardi says it's never too early for some Bracketology 06-07. Considering he does have to moonlight as Assistant Vice President for University Communications at St. Joe's to pay the A/C bill over the summer.

Obligatory Yankee Hater Post

It's as if last night's loss to the Sox wasn't demoralizing enough. Now the Yanks get roughed up on the back page and the front page of the Post. It's almost as if I can hear someone in Fenway yelling, "Jeetah's a Queeeeh," right now. [Gawker]


Jerry Crasnick says that the ratio of jeers to cheers was 80-20; with my own ears, I would have said 90-10, but that "idiot" still doffed his helmet to the crowd. (By the way Damon proceeded to have an o-fer-three.) Also, the citizens of Boston tax dollars gave Tim Wakefield's personal knuckleball catcher a ride from Logan to Fenway in record time (6:48 to 7:10). Nice timing. [ESPN]

Cheating....

Bitch needs to learn to cheat better ... those Harvard kids never learn. Should have taken some cues from me in 12th grade Brit Lit.

Those Brits...

Debuting this fall on British TV ... American Idol for porn stars ... "Porn Idol." [HuffPo]


And we're all going to hell.

A quick technology post

Lost the manual to your electronic device? No prob...PDFs of a lottttt of devices. [Boing Boing via Gizmodo]

Have Verizon Wireless and want to make your own ring tone? No problemo....Consumerist provides easy to follow directions (or here)...and apparently it was previously undisclosed VZW info....Get it while you can....

Desperate Housewives, Lost, Alias, Commander-in-Chief .... all now available for free, streaming [via Gizmodo]

Steve Page of the Barenaked Ladies wrote an editorial this morning on behalf of Canadian musicians who are part of the Canadian Music Creators Coalition. The piece had three main tenets: (i) we believe that suing our fans is destructive and hypocritical; (ii) we believe that the use of digital locks, frequently referred to as technological protection measures, are risky and counterproductive; (iii) we strongly believe that cultural policy should support actual Canadian artists. [Boing Boing]

The embodiment of bad habits

THIS MAN Says Gambling Might Do Him More Harm

You don't fucking say, John.

Truthiness

A big deal was sure made out of the White Correspondents' Dinner (WHCD) this past weekend. If you didn't hear, following in his former boss' comedic footsteps, Stephen Cobert was this year's host. Wonkette and Gawker were there to cover things with photographs of the DC A-listers, MSM B-listers, and anyone else who really cared/got lucky enough to get a ticket.

In typical MMQB fashion, Fox News' wake-up talking heads were none too pleased with the take-offs that Cobert performed. Some said that he went over the line (via HuffPo). But isn't it funny making fun of the Prez and his publicity machine (FNC)? Yes, admit it; it is.

The HuffPo had an interesting post this morning detailing the way in which the MSM chose to ignore the event for the most part (it was aired live on C-SPAN). It's true, I saw only those photos of Dubya and a not-so-close twin on the blogosphere this weekend. Later on today, another post on the same topic came down the HuffPo pipeline. This one, very conveniently, contains a transcript of exactly what Cobert said...nothing too outlandish if you ask this blogger.


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How many times can the AP write that Johnny Damon thinks he was going to get booed tonite?

Oops, SI.com tells us five reasons to boo Damon tonite.


Well fans, I know you have been waiting with bated breath....

He was both cheered and booed. The earth continued to rotate.