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Ok, this baby is just ripped.

With the World Series of Poker coming to TV in the next couple weeks, this is not just funny, but timely, too!

(via Oliver Willis)

I don’t get this Bush campaign ad. Are they saying that we should just submit to our leaders in Washington like robots? That we shouldn’t question anything, even if it goes against our core values? That passion for one’s beliefs is somehow a bad quality for a politician or voter to have? That Democrats who want to become president should agree with the Republican incumbent?

Can someone explain to me how a montage of Democrats presenting arguments against Bush somehow became a pro-Bush ad?

Meanwhile, check out Laura Bush’s oatmeal cookie recipe–developed, no doubt, when she was in the kitchen, where women belong.

Update:
One more thing: the Hitler poster was NOT created by moveon.org, but rather was one of the submissions from a reader to their poster contest. Moveon.org pulled the poster after outrage, but the creation of the poster was never their doing. Using that poster alongside Kerry, Gore, et al is ludicrous–one lefty weirdo who went overboard on an online poster contest is not nearly as relevant to the presidency as, say, three guys from the left who have actually run for president.

Britney Spears once again proves her commitment to the sanctity of marriage by getting engaged to Kevin Federline, a guy who already has a child with another woman–and she’s expecting their second child next month.

Here’s a little timeline for you:
A baby due in July means it was conceived in October of 2003.
Britney’s first marriage this year was in January 2004.
Therefore, within the past eight months, both Spears and Federline have broken up with spouses/baby mamas and dated long enough to get engaged.

Six months, and two engagements/marriages. At this point, can’t we just have Britney marry J-Lo and be done with it?

And yeah, I originally had an “oops, she did it again” headline, but isn’t that too obvious?

The Baseball Boys are back online, after two weeks of ATM glitches and computer problems. Check ‘em out!

Serena Williams thinks Karolina Sprem should have admitted that she was awarded an extra point during her second-round Wimbledon match against Serena’s sister, Venus.

“As a competitor and as a professional, you should be able to distinguish between right and wrong,” said Serena.

And as a professional tennis player, Venus should know how to keep score. But surely Serena felt that was a given.

This story was better when it was first written, 20 years ago, by George Plimpton, about a baseball player named Sidd Finch.

Were the other 50 NBA draft stories not enough for ESPN.com? And if they needed another one, couldn’t they have just asked Bill Simmons, who seems to excrete them at regular intervals?

It’s well-researched and funny, but I don’t quite buy the idea of this essay, which postulates that “Fight Club” is a latter-day “Calvin and Hobbes,” with Calvin as the Narrator, Hobbes as Tyler Durden, Susie as Marla, and Moe as Bob.

(Via Steve)

Well it’s not exactly a riot, but those people who raised such a big stink about how well-behaved Detroit has become can sit back down after some guy shot 9 people during a fireworks display.

The saddest thing is that it probably takes more effort and red tape to purchase fireworks than it does to buy the gun he used.

About a week ago, I was watching Jeopardy and saw a guy who had won for seven straight days. “Wow,” I thought to myself.

The run is now 16. He has won a half-million dollars. Now who says being a geek isn’t worth it?