Tweet of the Day: My Secret Is Out

Bad news folks:

And I guess I shouldn’t put off the inevitable.  He is linking to this page.  Go and look for yourself.  I guess Ron and the boys can call off their attack dogs, now... they got me.

Damn you Breibart with only one T!

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Sixteen reasons why sex improves your health.  You can’t argue with this, the science is settled.

And you’re welcome!

And check this one out: number 8, claims it ends zits.  Well, isn’t that a catch 22?  You have zits because you aren’t having sex.  But you aren’t having sex because you have zits.  This may be proof that there is a God and he can be a real jerk sometimes.

Then again most guys have tons of sex in high school.  Now whether there is a partner involved is a wholly different matter.

Awesome—James Hetfield of Metallica Says is Proud They Use His Music to Make Terrorists Talk; and is O'Donnell a Headbanger?

This is an old story, but awesome:

Metallica frontman James Hetfield is rather proud his band's music was played at top volume to break down the resistance of Guantanamo detainees under interrogation. "It’s strong, it’s music that’s powerful,” he told an interviewer from a German TV network. “It represents something that they don’t like—maybe freedom, aggression—I don’t know. Freedom of speech."

But he added that he was also "kind of bummed about it" because of his belief that politics and music don't mix. Several American musicians opposed to the use of their music on Gitmo prisoners recently joined a call demanding that the federal government release documents on the practice.

Um, no, Newser, that sounds more like he is saying that the musicians should stay out of the debate.

Meanwhile, Christine O’Donnell made me think of an old Metallica song.  Her recent ad is entitled “I’m you” and like when the President said that bit about people talking about him “like a dog” it made me think of a song.  I finally remembered what the song was just a few minutes ago: “Sad But True:”

Palate Cleanser

A very special engagement has been announced.  Check out their names.

Okay, I am calling bullshit on that one.  I do not believe that is their real names.  But hey kids, you made me laugh.

Holy Crap! Shapeshifters!

As usual the majority of this cracked list of animals imitating other things is wild and cool, but the real mind blower is the octopus, that changes from shape to shape.

Yes, that is right, shapeshifters are real and among us.

Patterico is Moving

Not sure what the final address will be (I think it might be the same), but obviously the site won’t work right until he is on his new servers.  But of course Murphy’s Law says that this is exactly when a story will break that Patterico will feel the need to comment on and then won’t be able to.  And I was wondering, what would count as a perfect Patterico story?

Well, how is this for a headline?  “L.A. Times suppresses story about Roman Polanskiy raping Christine O’Donnell when she was a teenager!”

Anyway, for once, I will open up comments and if my stalker shows up, I will just boot him.  Have at it.  Come up with your own creative Patterico “perfect storm” headline.

I Like This Picture

It’s a publicity still from “I Dream of Jeannie.”

Barbara Eden looks like she is really fascinated by something.  Meanwhile, Larry Hagman looks like he is thinking, “Oh yeah, you know I am hitting that.”

Of course that’s attached to a story that ain’t half as fun, given that they seem to be mistaking epilepsy for possession by an evil Jinn, but still, the pic leapt out at me.

Life Imitates the Onion Example #275

Okay a few weeks back the Onion ran a piece depicting al Qaeda as big fans of the Twilight movies.

And now we learn that the detainees at Gitmo... are big fans of the Twilight movies.

Yes, really.

Creepy.

And no, I am not even the first to connect the two.

By the way, in other onion goodness, you have this dead on parody of the “there ought to be a law” syndrome where every time something bad happens, we make a new set of laws hoping we can prevent it, no matter how ridiculous the effort is.

Wow, This is Retarded on so Many Levels

How to Date a Lawyer, supposedly, and how is this thing stupid?  Well, not the least because it is also sexist, clearly written for women.  Don’t be fooled by the gender neutrality early on.  Later it is clear that they think only women would be interested in this kind of gold digging.

By the way, here is a tip.  If you are not a lawyer, don’t act like you think that a lawyer acts.  And keep it short on the lawyer jokes.  At best we might have a sense of humor about it.  At worst, we might be offended.  Why not avoid the minefield and talk about something else.

Too Funny

From a real news story:

A high-ranking Pakistani diplomat reportedly cannot be appointed ambassador to Saudi Arabia because in Arabic his name translates into a phrase more appropriate for a porn star, referring to the size of male genitals, Foreign Policy reported.

The Arabic translation of Akbar Zeb to “biggest d**k” has overwhelmed Saudi officials who have refused to allow his post there.

Heh.

Meanwhile the boys at Powerline get all geopolitical/philosophical on Biggus Dickus.