Maybe in lieu of cash, we can trick them into taking AIG and Lehman Brothers off our hands. Look pirates, you can have your own Investment banking firm!

The AP is reporting that the cargo of the hijacked ship was bound for Sudan, by way of Kenya. And yeah, pirates! They even have a pirate spokesperson.

That was awesome. I now blame everything on Michael Jackson.

Wow, Fox News citing the Daily Mail. It's a miracle they identified the universe correctly.

There is no "widespread concern among scientists" about the dangers of the Large Hadron Collider, just a few crackpots like Otto Rossler (a retired biochemist) who have no idea what they are talking about.

Awesome. This raises the important question of what is considered a firing offense at Radar.

Clearly, you're going to have to go down there and get yourself a haircut from Louann.

There are unicorns on La Brea every day.

Fuck. Back to getting my youtube account suspended.

Blocking the internet for 72 hours? That's just wrong.

This is all a plot by Spencer and Heidi.

So he's trying to get publicity for his t-shirts by planting fake news items implying you'll get beat up on the subway while while wearing them?

OK, that attempt at html linking did not work out. How about this

http://tinyurl.com/6hsjzq
http://tinyurl.com/6zpmhq

You can try here and here. It looks like they're just spambots that cue in on murdery words, much like penis spam cues in on penisy words, with same amount of truth in advertising. Sorry Choire, you'll have to take care of Balk some other way.

I agree with you about the cultural burial obsession. I feel for the families, but the debris they are suing over is not the bodies of their loved ones. Also, wasn't much of it toxic?

A few more "grims" would not be out of line here.

According to the BBC, the rebels were duped into giving up the hostages. The army posed as a fake NGO and said they were taking the hostages to meet a rebel leader.

Pretty cool, if true. No bloodshed involved.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7486552.stm

We all know there should be a "gave" in there, right?

I think he just himself one.

Obama's responsible for rickrolling too? That bastard.

It's like when Geraldine Ferraro protested that you can't complain about black people without being called a racist. Damn watchdogs.

"Ms. Malkin, who is noted for trenchant criticism..." Really, WSJ? Perhaps in addition to looking up "baby momma" in the OED, you should look up "trenchant."

There's still a chance that the bigots in this state will overturn the ruling in November. Hopefully, Obama will galavanize enough young voters so that won't happen.

Are there any out, gay judges who might be up for Supreme Court appointment? I'd love to see Scalia deal with that.

BTW, the contextual ad on my screen right now is for gaychubbydating.com.

He not only wants to increase the number of pages written per reporter, but also cut the number of news pages in the paper by 82 a week and have more graphics. Kind of a mixed message: we want you to write more articles and we want to print fewer of them.

The article mentions that writers at The Hartford Courant and Baltimore Sun crank out 300 pages/week on average. Is that unusual? Or is the Times number unusual? I agree it's not a great metric, but I'm curious.

I'm not only enjoying Choire's writing, but also the tags. "Konstitutional Kerfuffle" is my current fav, although "Sort of Gay" and "The Dumbening" are up there.

I love the term "recently unprecedented," suggesting there is precedent, but it has somehow expired.

Wasn't it enough that Jesus drowned all the dinosaurs in the flood so they could turn into sweet gasoline for our cars? Do you have to go and pester him for lower prices too?

Dammit America, you know he likes to invade countries or stage terrorist scares when his approval ratings drop. Would it kill you to lie so we can survive the next few months without starting another war or receiving full cavity searches from the TSA?

The irony of the whole stupid pin controversy is that it perfectly illustrates Obama's point of bitter working class people focusing on non-issues.

Being the better person, he has a intellectual, compassionate line of reasoning for why this is, whereas I keep flashing on this scene from Blazing Saddles.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txrikNFX-8E

It's all been downhill for Great Britain's girls since Juliet Capulet.

"how could you not like a guy who beams and blushes when explaining that he's both the turd AND the blossom?"

The interviewer provided a handy but incomplete list at the 4:10 mark.

Can't they just sell the lacrosse team to JPMorgan?

What about Tionna? Can we at least get a cage match between Spencer and Ms. Smalls?

Come to think of it, Tionna may the be just the person to get Spencer's mind right.

"Anyone who thinks getting a guaranteed orgasm as a gift is gross is lying. Straight up lying."

I'm lying if I think it's gross that my boss gives me a vibrator?

So hire her, already.

stupid

I can't believe I keep posting, but escolar = Lepidocybium flavobrunneum, showing why common names don't always tell you much about what you are getting at the seafood market. There's bunch of species called butterfish, only one, apparently, will have the ass-blasting side effect, Lepidocybium flavobrunneum. It's sometimes sold as white tuna, although it's not a tuna.

Picture can be found here

Oops. That should be Peprilus triacanthus. Other fish in the same genus are also sold as butterfish or harvestfish.

Just FYI, that picture is not of the butterfish you're writing about. The picture is Pholis gunnelus, the butterfish sold as ass-blasting food is Poronotus triacanthus, and looks very different (both coming and going, as it were). They both have the same common name, hence the confusion. The intestinally risky version is also called dollarfish and harvestfish.

No questions about the 2004 Republican Convention? About this?

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/25/nyregion/25infiltrate.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

But we can all rest easy knowing how good he is at Pictionary.

Tionna! I am now happy.

What do you think of "Staring at the Glass Ceiling" making her competitor a VP? Or vice versa?