I want to live long enough to see this child become Chief Justice of the Supreme Court

Right on, Riley:

Something else for which to be thankful

For the inspiring example of this great lady:

Best Google Doodle Ever

If you haven't seen Google's special interactive Jim Henson 75th Birthday Commemoration doodle, go try it out now while it's still up.

Here is the story behind it:

Thursday Elizabeth Warren blogging

What Mika said: "She's fabulous, can we start that way?"

Yes we can:

Elizabeth Warren tells it like it is

We knew she was awesome. But she's awesome AND the kind of Democrat who can frame an argument in plain, simple language:



Like what you just saw? You know what to do.

How many thousands of people who thought they didn't know any gay people now know they do?

Kudos to this young man for sharing this phone call with the world...and kudos to his dad for being awesome:

In case you think getting hitched would cause Driftglass to lose his edge

Uh-uh. Ain't gonna happen.

I want these two kids to meet up in college, get married after graduation, and have awesome progressive babies

Amy Myers:

and Zack Kopplin:

It's kids like these that give me a wee glimmer of hope.

Millions of kids all over the country whose last name is "Weiner" owe a debt of gratitude to this guy

Thanks to Rep. Anthony Weiner for single-handedly changing the connotation of the name "Weiner" to mean "badass."

Wow, someone actually did it

This is all kinds of awesome:

Indianapolis - The students competed in video competition as part of the Marsh Hoosier Classic at Lucas Oil stadium this year. They got their idea from an episode of Glee where the football team does a dance to Beyonce's "Put a Ring on it."

Brandon Ledford is the quarterback of the high school's team. He was apprehensive about the idea when his fellow students came to him, "I was like wow. No. I gotta focus on winning some football games."

But with money on the line for his school, Ledford and the rest of the team decided to go for it.

Travis Duncan is also on the team. He say it made for a busy week for all the players, "We were practicing for football and the dance video at the same time."

Amber Derrow taught the guys the moves and directed the video, "Attention span was not that long on getting everyone set for it."

Derrow says no one expected the guys to be perfect, "If they messed up it made for a funny idea."

The entire video was shot in one day, but it took a lot longer to prepare and plan for that shoot. Ben Ettinger edited the final product, "We finished it in about 2 or 3 days"

The video was presented at the Marsh Hoosier Classic at Lucas Oil stadium where it won the school $300, but the school brought home more than just money. Ledford says, "We were on a two game losing streak. After that week we went Lucas Oil and our video was played and we went on a three game winning streak." (Fox 59 WXIM)

And the original:

Not too shabby, eh?

This is just 1000 kinds of awesome

Daniel Radcliffe sings Tom Lehrer's The Elements:

Now if he can sing Allan Sherman's The Painless Dentist and recite all of the ORIGINAL version of this:

...his Trash Culture Mutant cred will be complete.

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Set your DVR NOW

Best. Mom. Ever.

Whoever would have thought that a Cop's Wife would be so cool?

Don't you wish you had the opportunity to do this?

Why Sesame Street is still awesome

The greatest thing ever in the whole history of the internets

Or television, for that matter. Move over, Betty White fan, move over Gleeks -- there's a new star in town (Yes, you will have to sit through a commercial, but I promise you, it's worth it:

And if bad 80's music, puppets, and the Mythbusters weren't enough all by themselves, the context is even better. From TVSquad:

For no particular reason, Ferguson was joined by the two dudes from 'MythBusters,' as well as puppets "Wavy the Crocodile" and "Sid the Rabbit." Plus a random half-naked dancer or two. ... And the best part of the crazy song was this: It was just the opening of the show, had nothing to do with anything, and Craig never mentioned it again for the rest of the night. Sheer random surrealism! Or just a guy dancing with puppets. Either way, it was pretty cool.

(Thanks, Tata!)

In case you missed this

I got to watch to this live yesterday. All by itself it made getting the Droid worth every penny:

And the (semi-)serious side here.

If you need further proof that what Colbert did yesterday is right up there with his White House Correspondents Dinner masterpiece, check out the response of Rep. Steve King (R-Wackyland):

"Maybe we should be spending less time watching Comedy Central and more time considering all the real jobs that are out there, ones that require real hard labor," King said bitterly. He invoked the "Joe the Plumbers of the world who, many days, would prefer the aroma of fresh dirt to that of the sewage from American elitists who disparage them even as they flush."

Oh yes he did. Yes, he really did invoke Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher, the unemployed plumber/Republican prop. I'm waiting now for the footage of Mr. Wurzelbacher working in the fields. Because until he does, invoking his name simply proves Colbert's point.

There are no words to describe tha awesomeness displayed yesterday by this Sunday School teacher from Montclair. He makes me proud to live in Joisey.

A small glimmer of hope for the future

My hope is that for every attention whore cashing in on their parent's fame like Bristol Palin (and yes, sad to say it, Meghan McCain), and every bubbleheaded going-nowhere like Snooki, there's a kid like Jacob Isom:

A planned Quran burning Saturday in Amarillo was thwarted by a 23-year-old carrying a skateboard and wearing a T-shirt with "I'm in Repent Amarillo No Joke" scrawled by hand on the back.

Jacob Isom, 23, grabbed David Grisham's Quran when he became distracted while arguing with several residents at Sam Houston Park about the merits of burning the Islamic holy book.

"You're just trying to start Holy Wars," Isom said of Grisham after he gave the book to a religious leader from the Islamic Center of Amarillo.

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Not important in the larger sphere of things, but wonderful news just the same

Roger Ebert is coming back to television -- sort of:

The Pulitzer Prize-winning Chicago Sun-Times film critic is producing "Roger Ebert Presents At the Movies" with his wife, Chaz Ebert. The weekly, half-hour review program will debut in January and be syndicated nationally on public television stations.

The show will feature co-host Christy Lemire of The Associated Press and contributing critic Elvis Mitchell of National Public Radio and former movie critic for The New York Times. Ebert will have his own segment on the show called "Roger's Office," during which he will use his computer voice to review new movies or talk about the state of film.

In a pilot of the new show, Ebert is shown sitting behind a desk, typing his review of a documentary. The computer voice says his words as he discusses the film. As Ebert finishes his review, he says: "I think it's a real discovery on DVD and I give it a big thumbs up." And he does.

[snip]

The new show features Lemire and Mitchell sitting in red movie theater seats debating back and forth about a movie before issuing a thumbs up or thumbs down review, not unlike Siskel and Ebert years before.

Lemire and Mitchell will never in a million years have the chemistry, the "dysfunctional marriage" aura the Siskel and Ebert had. And they just aren't in the same league, though Mitchell in particular knows his stuff. But nothing will ever equal the originals, as you'll see from this Siskel and Ebert review of the wonderfully campy teen vampire movie The Lost Boys:

But anything that involves Roger Ebert is guaranteed to be worth your time. If you haven't been reading Ebert's blog, you don't yet know what a damn fine writer he is -- not just about film, but about everything.

I will vote for every friggin' budget with bloated crap for the high school football team if they promise to do this at every game

I really may have to start watching Glee.

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