Ball Of Confusion (That’s What The World Is Today)

Eve Of Destruction; Banks Fail, Mortgage Industry Collapses; Iran Closing In On The Bomb; Cities Ablaze In The Summertime; Mod Clothes In Demand, Population Out Of Hand; Suicide, Too Many Bills; Hippies Moving To The Hills; People All Over The World Are Shouting ‘End The War!’
 
And the band played on…
 
But none of this matters anymore, because [...]

College Football Is Teh Awesome

Maybe this receiver is really Spider-man…

Another football-related item. Note to commentators: stop saying ‘in space’, as in ‘the guy is great after the catch, running loose in space’. It’s ‘THE OPEN FIELD’, you mutton heads.

Sarah Palin: Future President

A certain ZZTop song comes to mind…

Orange County Choppers ♥ Sarah

Sarah Palin, popular Alaska governor, GOP Vice Presidential nominee, loving wife, devoted mother of five, and all-around wonderful human being, was joined at a recent campaign event by those lovably gruff motorcycle guys, the Teutels:

(Screen cap, in case Yahoo deletes the photo at the behest of the Obama campaign.)

10,000 At McCain-Palin Rally In Green Bay Wisconsin

With the GOP candidates showing strength among the state’s young, suburban women, they zeroed in on Anoka County.
By BOB VON STERNBERG and MIKE KASZUBA, Star Tribune staff writers
John McCain and Sarah Palin brought their campaign back to Minnesota Friday, appearing before thousands of roaring supporters in a cavernous hangar at the Anoka County-Blaine Airport.

 
But [...]

“Big Bang Machine” Outta Whack

EARTH BREATHES SIGH OF RELIEF; EGGHEAD SCIENTISTS, GEEKS HARDEST HIT
Down for two months because part of it melted:
 
“It’s too early to say precisely what happened, but it seems to be a faulty electrical connection between two magnets that stopped superconducting, melted and led to a mechanical failure and let the helium out,” Gillies told The [...]

A “heartbeat away from…”

A criticism of Sarah Palin, former mayor, current Alaska governor, Republican nominee for Vice President, and all-around wonderful wonderful wonderful person, is that allegedly she is ‘inexperienced’ and shouldn’t be ‘a heartbeat away’ from the Presidency.
Well, there is a very real specter of terror now stalking America- the woman who today is just 2 heartbeats away [...]

It’s elevation, not altitude

I live in Colorado and enjoy sports. Many commentators, whether it’s baseball or football or pretty much any game you can imagine, mistakenly refer to the ‘altitude’ as a factor in sports performance in Colorado. “Yes Dick, kickers really love the way the ball travels at this altitude”, and all that. Well, unless they’re playing [...]

College Football Is Teh Awesome

… but not if you play for Concordia College:

Ow. OWWWW. That’s the equivelant of giving up a field goal every 2 minutes.
7 touchdowns before halftime? OW.

That’s The Ticket

Arizona Senator John “I’ve got chunks of guys like you in my stool, kid” McCain

Alaska Governor Sarah “Sarah Of The Great White North” Palin