especially if it’s me talking about it.

LISTEN!! (you’ll need real player, which is sort of stupid.)

i love robin young’s perfect soothing radio voice, especially compared to my hyperfast rampage. also, if you know how to make this non-real player, then let me know.

michigan’s “star” running back was caught DWI in grand rapids. he blew a .281, was passed out with the car in drive when the cops approached, and was about 9 miles wrong when explaining where he was. a map, courtesy of mr. dailey:

sean doesn’t think the map quite represents HOW WRONG grady was when trying to describe where he was, so i offer you this graphic:

other details from the police report:

• Grady was off-balance and unable to recite the alphabet, with officer Thompson quoting Grady as saying “O, R, S, J, L, P.”

• The officer said he asked for a number between 12 and 14, and Grady answered “15.”

• When asked whether Mickey Mouse is a dog or a cat, Grady answered “dog.”

i’m going to be on NPR tuesday (today) on here and now (unfortunately not the luther vandross song) talking about nuclear engineering (thanks zach!)

chances are, i won’t be broadcast in your area, but i’ll try to post the recording on my blog. right now i’m doing some serious studying on nuclear, but i’ll be happy as long as i don’t say nucular.

you know you have some sort of problem when you can’t drink lime water without thinking about delicious/terrible tequila.

/reformed

lots of feminists really hate how beach volleyball leagues have really unfair rules about what women wear vs. what men wear for tournaments. women must wear bikini bottoms no larger than 2.5 inches on the side, or something like that; men can wear shorts and tank tops.

i agree it is a little ridiculous that they’re forced to be scantily clad (apparently this is a problem for some conservative countries that want to compete), but i have to admit that the slightly gay part of me really enjoys the bikinis. the solution to this objectification problem is to force men to go topless. then everyone can be equally naked, and joy will be felt by all. hooray.

btw, the fact that crocs is an AVP sponsor kind of pisses me off. george bush wears black crocs w/ black socks, and that is just terrible.

now people are asking whether NBC should have “done more” to tell viewers that the footprints were fake.

As Folkenflik notes, NBC anchor Matt Lauer wasn’t exactly specific or particularly aggressive in making sure viewers understood that some of the images fed to them by the Chinese Olympics organizers via the network’s coverage were digitally manufactured.the Beijing Times later revealed the extent of the fakery.

NOW NBC HAS TO BE “AGGRESSIVE” WITH THIS? i think i’m actually angry about it. all this nonsense is for the people who need to save face because they ran their mouth while not paying any attention.

all the news media in the world is “reporting” that the footprint fireworks at the beginning of the olympics national ceremony were digitally faked:

While the dramatic display actually happened as portrayed on television, members of the Beijing Olympic Committee said it was necessary to replace live video with computer-generated imagery because the city’s hazy, smoggy skies made it too difficult to see, according to The Beijing Times, which first reported the story.

waitaminute, i would bet a donut that bob costas or one of the other announcers said this exact thing in his commentary as the ceremony was happening. something along the lines of “so basically this is nothing more than a very realistic animation.” can someone please confirm to me that i’m right? i suppose i’ll check the tivo myself.

also, china pulling a milli vanilli on us? not surprised, but not cool.

kinda sucks. but i have some logistical questions and comments.

1. i’m trying to construct a timeline here:

sometime in 2006: edwards and hunter meet

november 2006: eliz edwards’s cancer goes into remission

march 22, 2007: eliz edwards’s cancer comes back. also, john edwards says he was no longer having an affair after her cancer came back

may 2007: hunter’s baby is conceived

july 2007: if the national enquirer is correct, this is the earliest the affair ended (18 months)

february 2008: hunter’s baby is born

now, something here is not right. if the enquirer is correct, then edwards is lying about the when he was banging that chickie, and it is completely possible the baby is his. the other less awesome possibility is that the enquirer is wrong about the length of the affair.

2. i care about this a lot less than this analysis suggests. i was just trying to do the math and it wasn’t adding up, i swear.

3. do i think the liberal media f’d this one up? oh hell yes. way to show your true colors and make this whole enterprise harder to defend. someone explain the state of journalism to me when the national enquirer is breaking one of the hugest political stories of the year. ugh.

4. how is it that this 42yo hard-partying “filmmaker” can bag two married men in such a short amount of time? how and why? and i really want to see a pic of this andrew young fella, just out of sheer voyeuristic curiosity.

4. in any case, i really don’t like you, john edwards, b/c you sue people like my mom and seriously threaten my inheritance. and you cheat on your dying wife, who is dying b/c she was trying to have more of your lecherous babies. and your hair is too nice. i’m so over it.