Seriously, Channing Tatum Lost His Backpack
Seriously, Channing Tatum left his black backpack in a cab near New York City’s 42nd Street.
Guess What The Guy in The "Seriously, I Have Drugs" Shirt Was Busted For
A man was arrested at a Hudson, Fla., Kmart Monday while wearing a shirt that said "WHO NEEDS DRUGS? No, seriously, I have drugs." Pasco County deputies allege that—surprise!—he had drugs.
Apparently, This Is Apparently Kid's First Time on a Talk Show
Apparently Kid Noah Ritter, the ginger 5-year-old you apparently remember from that time he apparently overused a certain qualifier in a local news interview, charmed everyone on Ellen Thursday in what was apparently his first time on a national talk show.
Joe the Plumber: "Your Dead Kids Don’t Trump My Constitutional Rights"
Joe the Plumber is an idiot. But in his latest idiocy—a crass dance on the graves of the just-murdered mass-shooting victims in Isla Vista—he teaches us all an important lesson about exactly how conservative thought on individual rights has shifted in recent years.
Those Taliban Bastards Are Holding an American Dog Hostage [Updated]
Considering all the damage that's been done in Afghanistan, to Afghans and to Americans, one dog may not mean all that much in the big scheme of things. But Jesus, a dog. Jesus. He just wants to please somebody.
Buy Stocks Now
The Way We Live Now: buying stocks. You better be! We are telling you, brother. You want a plan for long term financial success? Buy stocks. Right now. This is not even a joke.
Politico Writes Year's Best Journalism Thing
How has The Politico, the most closely-followed internet tip sheet in our nation's halls of power, won the morning and the afternoon as well, today? They have done so with this work of journo-art, "Ben Marter's home-cooked weekend."
It's Facepalm Day Somewhere, and That Somewhere is the Sunday Styles
NYT: People are glad they don't own houses. If they do, they're sad. Especially men.
Unlike Bush, Obama Won't Meet Dalai Lama
Well, well. Liberals and lefties try to claim President Obama's far more progressive than George W. Bush. That may not entirely be the case, because, unlike Bush, Obama can't bring himself to meet with the Dalai Lama...
Conservatives Go On TV To Hate Fun, Sports, America
This kind of stuff cannot possibly look attractive to your theoretical disinterested observer, or "independent voter," to be literally cheering the fact that an American city—a Midwestern American city!—has lost something to a foreign city. This is like rooting for Obama's puppy to get run over. This is like if Obama…
Arthur Kade: The Tooth Fairy of Our Time
The more we get the feeling that Arthur Kade, Philly's Zoolanderesque parody of himself, is actually a performance artist exploring the nature of assholery, the more we want to believe that he is real. As real as the "When Harry Met Sally" dialogue he practiced for "an astounding 12 hours."
Oh, Come On
"Norm Coleman today proposed a more leisurely schedule for his election appeal than Al Franken wants, asking that oral arguments in the case be held no sooner than mid-May." [Strib]
Marriage-Defending Crusaders Are 2M4M
Let's see, how could the evil anti-gay group that calls itself NOM (NOM NOM) and had its hilarious commercial audition clips leaked to YouTube become even more comical? They found a way!
What the Hell
Bill Kristol's getting a monthly column at the Washington Post. How wrong do you actually have to be to be barred from prominent punditry? This is why newspapers are dying, people! [The Corner]
"No two ways about it—not with Labor Day prowling around, ready to pounce on the end of summer, skin it, pound it, and throw it on the grill so it goes up in flames like a chicken breast marinated in motor oil." Uh, we think this means Sun columnist Lenore Skenazy is depressed that summer's over? [NYS]
