Everybody is a star.

Youtube of the day...

Via Wonkette:

Tony Blair rocking out.

And another one, though you have to watch through the first minute or so to get to it.

Okay, pardon my French, here,

but this is Just. Completely. FUCKING. Stupid. Almost makes me hate being a parent because of all the other idiots who have kids out there.

A good article...

on why the NHL probably should have just gone away after the last strike. Now, I like hockey, don't get me wrong, but I don't really care about it until February or March, and I root for an out of town team, so I don't get to see my team very often unless they're playing the locals.

Oh, and this is pretty funny also.

7 feet tall? Good for wrestling...

...but not so good for boxing. Just got finished watching last Saturday's "championship" fight between 6'3" Monte Barrett and the 7-foot tall Russian boxer Nikolai Valuev. It was... well, it was something. Not quite a boxing match, not quite the massacre I expected either, though.

Barrett was clearly outmatched, but did his damnedest to try and chop the bigger man down. He escaped the first round after getting knocked down but not counted, as the ref did not see his gloves hit the canvas. Through the middle rounds, Barrett tried to alternately chop away at Valuev and then jump in and grab him to avoid the bigger man's clubbing blows. But as the fight wore on, Valuev just kept thudding away at Barrett. Barrett went down in the eighth, though it was almost more of a slip than a knockdown, but by the eleventh, Barrett was reeling. After three knockdowns in the round and Valuev's landing shots at will, Barrett's trainer jumped in and ended the match.

Unfortunately, Valuev seems like a very intelligent, sensitive guy, but he's probably never going to be anything more than a freak, especially since Don King has wormed his way into Valuev's management team. HBO showed some footage of Valuev in New York looking very uncomfortable doing PR with King, holding a mockup of the Empire State Building while King crowed about "my Russian Giant!". I can't imagine him going very far, but BoxRec has him ranked #2 in the world right now in the awful, awful heavyweight division behind fellow Russian Wladimir Klitschko. Maybe he'd be better off calling Vince McMahon.

R.I.P Gillo Pontecorvo

Director of one of my favorite films of all time, The Battle Of Algiers.

Unclear on the concept.

This dumbass wants Fahrenheit 451 banned. Because of the language in the book. (It's obvious he didn't read the book. Or that he knows what irony is.)

More later.