Everything I needed to know about 9/11 I learned from Star Trek.

Riker: “9/11 was an inside job.”

See also (not as funny, kinda long, but y’know)

Like you need another reason to love Ralph Stanley.

Talking Points Memo: “New Obama ad in the South stars bluegrass legend saying Obama is ‘a good man.”  Click through and listen, it really made my day.

Judas Priest vs. Slayer by proxy aborigonal gang wars. Seriously.

From Vice magazine:

Violent riots had erupted between two of the town’s largest gangs and for a moment it looked like the Australian Army…was going to have to be brought in…what really blew us away was that the town…was split up into gangs named after heavy metal bands. There were the Judas Priest Boys, the Evil Warriors, and the Slayer Mob.

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Who said “I don’t think we should treat religion lightly, Mr Gore?”

Bush or Batman?

Direct YouTube link

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Some rumors are so much fun to think about, you just gotta spread them.

Is Aliester Crowley President Bush’s grandfather?

Bad senate, good senate.

If you don’t know what the senate just did that’s bad you’re probably dead, but did you know that they also did something good?  I’m just saying.  (Maybe I should rename my blog “I’m Just Saying.”)

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I guess I can be bothered after all.

McCain called his wife the worst word there is- and she’s not even black.

This is funny.  Uses the C-word.

Direct YT link, this version has the C-word beeped over.

Thanks, Eric.

Eric Din(widdie): “I have a new blogging problem.”

Din’s bloggy.

Corporate terpitude re: net neutrality.

Comcast paid a bunch of shills to cheer for their guy, and to occupy seats that could may otherwise have gone to journalists or the actual public, at the FCC hearings on net neutrality.  Consumerist,  Save the Internet Blog (via BoingBoing), ZDNet, Portfolio dot com (via /.), Valleywag.

“Creating a Truth”- a visit to the Creation Museum

An interesting and readable report of a visit to the new fancy Creation Museum from The Smart Set.