Man allegedly sets house afire to kick out crackheads
Ah yes, the old "smoke the smokers out of your house so you can get laid" trick.
Ah yes, the old "smoke the smokers out of your house so you can get laid" trick.
After months kaput,
FiveSevenFive's back again.
At last: news haiku.
This video of Scott McClellan carefully hanging himself (with rope helpfully provided by his bosses) in front of the White House press corps is one of the greatest things I've seen all year. I can't stop watching.
Or smiling (grimly).
It's a must-see.
Edit: Here's the transcript.
As I figured, AI has weighed in on the dress code. (That link is a pdf. I registered so you don't have to.)
Note the McNabb jersey in the pic.
My favorite part? "I feel if they want us to dress a certain way, they should pay for our clothes. It's just tough, man, just knowing that all of a sudden, you have to have a dress code out of nowhere."
Yeah, that must be tough. How much money do you make? I bet it buys a lot of suits.
acdc "drumkit" - Google Search
Points to a list of music I bought.
I'm hit #10 for can I get into an Ivy with a 1210 SAT
Tim pointed me to an improbably-fantastic blog called Minor Tweaks today. While I was enjoying some of that, my attention wandered (as it does, on occasion) and I noticed a link to (I guess) that guy's other site, I Have OPINIONS!!!, a collection rants read by a voice synthesizer.
And now I am sobbing with laughter. It is the funniest thing ever. At least for the time being.
Go. Go there now.
I posted this earlier in a different category, but upon further reflection, I realized I had it wrong. White House Press Secretary Scott "Straight Dope" McClellan has outdone himself, and whoever transcribed today's press briefing about Cheney "peppering" a septuagenarian GOP donor with buckshot has helped Scotty cook up one of the most bizarre things since.....well, I was gonna say Ionesco, but that story last week about the Tupperware sex-toy parties and explosive condoms was pretty great....
So, let's just say that McClellan's latest masterwork is simply that....his latest masterwork. He more than made up for the 22 hour head start everyone else had on the story including the Corpus Christi, TX, rag--via the Armstrong matriarch who, and I'm just guessing here, rules the ranch in question with a bony yet crushingly-strong fist.
And it's a good thing Scott is around, too. Because the story itself, frankly, needed a little punching up: elderly lawyer in Tejas (who oversees the licensing of funeral parlors) doesn't follow "protocol" by announcing his presence BEHIND PEOPLE CARRYING GUNS and gets sprayed with lead while hunting. The gunman? None other than VPOTUS. So then what? Well, it seems those on the scene took a few hours to get their stories straight make sure the old fart was going to pull through, and then decided let the rest of us in on what had happened--by allowing a civilian to call the local broadsheet.
So as you can see, there's not nearly enough going on there to hold my interest, but maybe that's just me.
The point is I'm damn glad McClellan was around today. And I'm sure we all look forward to further genius from him (and his unwitting foils in the White House press corps) soon.
Daring Fireball: Good Journalism
John Gruber's got a pretty nice deconstruction of a recent (and silly) AP article about Mac OS X and its susceptibility to viruses.
It underscores the point that (at least some) bloggers are better "reporters" than (at least some) "reporters."
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