Category Archives: Utter Miscellany
“I was actually black before the election”
Obama on Letterman last night, via Below the Beltway:
Kanye West doesn’t care about purple people
My friend Marcelo, a fellow Trojan, posted this on Facebook and Flickr Saturday: Heh. [Bumped. -ed.] P.S. Washington is now ranked in the AP poll — at #24 — though not in the slower-to-adjust coaches poll, in which they’re effectively #31 (sixth in “others receiving votes”). I’ve gotta agree with the AP on this one: the Huskies have both a… Read more »
One football fan’s terrible, horrible, no good, very bad weekend
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For a sports fan, it doesn’t get much worse than what Stewart Mandel reader Josh from Delaware, Ohio experienced last weekend: Friday night, my high school alma mater was down 20-7 with a few minutes left, scored two touchdowns but missed the second extra point and lost in overtime. Saturday evening, my college alma mater held up very well on… Read more »
Barack Obama, Jedi Master
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Back in January, gadget blog Gizmodo stumbled across a Japanese-made action figure of newly elected President Obama. The highly detailed figure included, among many accessories, a lightsaber, as seen in this shot: Yesterday, at a White House event supporting Chicago’s bid for the 2016 Olympics, we found out that this action figure was eerily foresighted, as Obama revealed his Jedi… Read more »
ObamaCare drinking game rules redux
In an effort to assemble a viable — which necessarily means fairly simple — drinking game from bits and pieces of the rules offered by National Review, Wonkette (those were actually for Obama’s first address to Congress), and yours truly, I offer the following categorized rundown, after the jump.
The Onion imitates the LRT
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This article in The Onion sounds hilariously like something lifted out of my old Living Room Times newspaper, circa eighth grade (1994-95). Here’s a taste of the Onion story: In an event that everyone at James Madison Junior High is calling really freaking gross, some kid’s head got cracked open Wednesday during third-period gym class. … Although the extent of… Read more »
Soliciting suggestions for ObamaCare faux-SOTU speech drinking game
My feeble effort to start a Twitter meme with the hashtag #obamacaredrink — asking for people’s suggestions on drinking-game rules for Wednesday’s non-State-of-the-Union address to Congress by President Obama — is looking like a dismal failure (much like Obama’s political strategy for health-care reform!), even though @MelissaTweets graciously took my RT-bait. Sooo, I figure I’ll go about this the, er,… Read more »
CT legislators caught playing solitaire, reading ESPN during budget debate
In a scene reminiscent of every law school class ever, three members of the Connecticut State House of Representatives were caught on camera goofing around on their computers during the height of the legislature’s big budget debate yesterday. In the Associated Press photo, two representatives — Barbara L. Lambert (D-Milford) and John F. Hennessy (D-Bridgeport) — are seen playing solitaire… Read more »
Birther bait
Now you, too, can have your own fake Kenyan birth certificate. Woohoo! Here’s mine: Heh. Larger version here. And yes, there is a real place in Kenya called Loiyangalani. (Hat tip: Sully.)