Interesting chart of Friedman Units (every time Thom Friedman says we should give Iraq six more months). Are people starting to figure out that this guy is a moron? (via Chris Hayes)
Monthly Archive for April, 2007
Mark Halperin, former writer of ABC New’s The Note, is moving to Time. The Note has always been one of those things that I read only when I wanted to be reminded of how much I dislike Washington establishment media types, so its no great loss to me. Wonkette sums things up in the style that only he can:
Eventually Halperin lost his mind and started pretending that things like the Bush administration’s response to Hurricane Katrina and congressional Republicans intervening in the Terri Shiavo case were brilliant political moves made with great wisdom that would reveal itself over time. Then he started hawking his book, Only I and I Alone (and Karl Rove) Know How Elections Can Be Won Anymore, Please Buy My Book Please Please Please PS Hey Drudge Please Plug This Please Please Please by MARK HALPERIN and John Harris, and embarrassed himself repeatedly in venues like the Hugh Hewitt show, losing the respect of pretty much everyone paying attention with his shamelessness. In other words, he whored himself out to sell his book, sold out his journalistic contemporaries by confirming the right wing’s worst fears about them on national radio, and then his book bombed.
Mark Halperin sucks and Time will be even more irrelevant with him. Congrats to both parties.
Deadspin posted a longer version of the Will Ferrell video I posted earlier here. I’ve put the longer version (the beginning and end are longer) after the jump. It is, again, fantastic.
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Here’s a happy little wedding story that will just warm your heart:
PATNA, India - Villagers at a wedding in eastern India decided the groom had arrived too drunk to get married, and so the bride married the groom’s more sober brother instead, police said Monday.
“The groom was drunk and had reportedly misbehaved with guests when the bride’s family and local villagers chased him away,” Madho Singh, a senior police officer told Reuters after Sunday’s marriage in a village in Bihar state’s Arwal district.
The younger brother readily agreed to take the groom’s place beside the teenage bride at her family’s invitation, witnesses said.
“The groom apologized for his behavior, but has been crying that word will spread and he will never get a bride again,” Singh said by phone.
(via The Big O from gchat, who sadly is still on hiatus)
Andrea Mitchell: still a moron who goes on TV without knowing what she’s talking about.
Via my buddy Wiley, a list (with video naturally) of the 15 best movie trailer mashups.
That Will Ferrell is pretty good at this whole comedy thing. I hope by now you’ve seen the Landlord video. Here’s a new one that Ferrell is apparently doing for the NFL draft and it is, as expected, hilarious.
(Via With Leather and cross-posted at The Sports Note)
Note: I’m experimenting with putting all videos after the so called “jump” (the little click more thing) because that way if they get pulled off youtube they won’t look so ugly on the frontpage. Tell me if thats annoying though.
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