Police are raiding homes in anticipation of protestors of the RNC. Link, link, and link.

Great. Just great. Makes me so proud to live here. (And for those of you out there who are idiots, that’s sarcasm.)

one of the more frightening child safety warning images, courtesy of dell and the packaging from sara’s new laptop:

to me, it seems to be warning people to not see the movie scream, but i’m happy to take other nominations.

[Minnesota Twins General Manager Bill Smith is sitting at his desk, staring blankly at his computer screen. We hear a knock at the door.]

Smith: It’s open.

[Twins Manager Ron Gardenhire enters, hat in hand.]

Gardenhire: Can we chat, Bill?

[Gardenhire sits]

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A quote:

“If you are bored and disgusted by politics and don’t bother to vote, you are in effect voting for the entrenched Establishments of the two major parties, who are not dumb and are keenly aware that it’s in their interests to keep you disgusted and bored and cynical and to give you every possible psychological reason to stay at home . . . on Primary Day. By all means stay home if you want, but don’t bullshit yourself that you’re not voting. In reality, there is no such thing as not voting: you either vote by voting, or you vote by staying home and tacitly doubling the value of some Diehard’s vote.”

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It’s been two and a half years since I last wrote about the Olympics. And it has been six and a half years since I lamented on the X-ification of the Olympics.

With the Summer Games in Beijing coming to a close in the next few days, I felt it was time to take a closer look at the sports of the XXIX Summer Olympiad.
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