Picked up a case of much riper pomegranates so by all rights this post should go up on the other blog, me already being well on my way to being that way.
But these are N links, not M links, and frankly, I don’t think they’d age well. Friday night stuff for the kind of people who stay home and glower on Friday nights.
My kind of people.
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So by now I guess you’re not surprised that for a moment I was misremembering Jeb Bartlett as the good president we had in between Clinton and Bush II.
Cute video though.
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Republicans:
Bernie Kerik pleas guilty (one of eight so seven more to come!) [go ahead, wallow]
Right Wing Nut House lashes out at extreme right nutters
Teapartiers embrace Russian doomsday sooth
LitCritting O on his Fort Hood remarks
Lies and more lies
Neiwert on “right-wing Minnesota superblog True North” (featuring scads of lefty MN bloggers!)
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Shorter RNC gift story: The guy who let Norm Coleman sleep in his DC basement just got a $400,000 “gift” for volunteering to run the RNC last year.
And to think we’ve been arguing in the comments over at Brauer’s about whether Bill Kling’s $600,000 a year is too much!
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The world we live in:
Actors denouncing characters they were paid to play
13% Sure, Why Not?
World Net Daily already exploiting Fort Hood shooter to sell books
Whales and squid: what nature does when it’s not fucking season
Pt V of Spotty’s Civil Forfeiture tutorial: Screwing the kid’s mom
At long last, justice
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The media who program us:
Digby with Twin Cities video (I’m so proud)
Andrea Mitchell, acting out her husband’s age
Wall Street Journal has yet to mention outcome of NY23!
In case you’d forgotten how much you loathe Chris Matthews
TC radio ratings by corporation
Poniewozik on centrist bias (death to Flash!) (inside joke) (seriously, don’t kill Flash!) (OK, but I told you not to)
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Etc:
I’d like to have some of this
Triceless in the Cities?
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Time for the Bucks-Timberwolves game. Sports are so much more fun when you have to hunt down an illegal stream for yourself. (Hunting in this case meaning parking where you see all the pickups.)
Still, it seems odd to watch an NBA game without the World Serious on the other channel. An addiction I was totally totally ready for. In fact, I’m in favor of merging the two sports, creating the MLBNBA. Split the year between the two “divisions” with summer and winter rules and championship rounds in late spring and fall.
You go with a rubber ball the size of a coconut. I think that would be obvious. Bats are out but everyone gets an oversized hardwood jai alai cesta. Did I mention that the rubber balls would have soylent green covers? (The harvest from Obama’s death panels being put to utilitarian use just as The Great Helmsman would have done.)
Think basketball on grass except a smaller ball, no dribbling, no basket and lots of short fast guys. Rules would be greatly simplified. During the regular season the winner would be the first team to “take out” three players from the opposing team. Boxing rules with the ref there mostly just to count out the fallen. Championship games would be played to the last team standing.
Unpredictable duration like baseball, fast moving action like basketball. Plus you’ve got the body count of football with an insanely fast ball (hockey) and the expectation of serious injury to some of the players (NASCAR). After each game hard core fans would be hanging out at hospital website chatrooms waiting for updates on their favorite players.
More American than Sean Hannity with rules a child could figure out (or not — no rules is no rules). As many strategies and nuances as there are Chuck Norris infomercials and Jean-Claude Van Damme movies combined.
The only flaw in my thinking that I can detect is — and I’m sure most of you have picked up on it — this game is clearly meant to be played on horseback. And you’re right, but for the life of me I can’t figure out how we’d get it past the SPCA and PETA folks.
Music later at the other place. Old-fashioned basketball now.
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