Other Reasons Too

by matt

The DCeiver: An Experiment
1. Take out your iPod (or Zune, I guess…really, who buys a Zune?)
2. Press shuffle songs.
3. Answer the following: a) How many songs before you come to one that would absolutely disqualify you from being President? b) What is that song?
4. Leave your answers.
Now, ordinarily I don’t mess with these little quizzes, […]

This is What Happens When you Dis Barack Obama

by matt

Rapper DMX jailed in Dade County Miami Herald (6/23/08):
Rapper DMX was arrested Monday on a warrant for not having a valid driver’s license, Miami-Dade police say.
The rapper, whose real name is Earl Simmons, 37, was being held at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center on Monday afternoon. His bond is set at $500.
The gruff-rapping Simmons […]

Game Over

by matt

Rapper The Game (a.k.a. Teh Ghey) is getting Obama’s face tattooed on his back. I’m guessing it’s because he’s a big fan of telco immunity. Either way, this is a very negative leading indicator.
If you’re keeping score at home, it’s The Game and Leon vs DMX. I think you all know where […]

He Really Should Have Lived to Be 77

by matt

I’m not sure I want to live in a world with no Rodney Dangerfield and no George Carlin.

Regulated

by matt

They got guns to my head
I think Im going down
I cant believe this happenin in my own town - Warren G - “Regulate“
Rapper Warren G arrested on marijuana charge - Los Angeles Times 6/9/08):
Warren G, whose real name is Warren Griffin III, was riding in a car driven by Ryan Butler, 29, when they were […]

Al Qaeda, Same Sex Marriage and Censorship

by sarabeth

Guess who’s aligned with social conservatives? The mastermind of 9-11 himself, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed:
As the judge questioned him about whether he was satisfied with the U.S. military lawyer appointed to defend him, Mohammed stood and began to sing in Arabic, cheerfully pausing to translate his own words into English.
“My shield is Allah most high,” […]

Fractional Football Scholarships

by sarabeth

Someone who played college football — or who understands the arcane stupidities of NCAA football rules for some other reason — will have to explain this WP story to me:
The Howard University football team was one of 218 Division I programs sanctioned by the NCAA yesterday for failing to meet academic standards. …
The NCAA yesterday […]

How Do You Say ‘No Homo’ in Portuguese?

by matt

Ronaldo sorry for encounter with cross-dressing prostitutes AP (5/4/08):
Brazilian star Ronaldo says he’s sorry, embarrassed and ashamed about his highly publicized encounter a week ago with three cross-dressing prostitutes, calling it the biggest mistake of his life.
In an interview on Brazil’s Globo TV, the AC Milan striker on Sunday denied claims by one of the […]

The Papal Foot, A little Deeper

by sarabeth

(1)
This Ratzi fellow makes a funny kind of pope.
The most sensitive issue he needs to address on his current U.S. visit is the clergy abuse scandal. He started off on the wrong foot when first his handpicked number two man, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, and then he himself focused on the Church’s suffering rather than […]

Guess They Never Watched Seinfeld

by matt

LA-based frozen-yogurt chain Pinkberry settles lawsuit
A Los Angeles-based company known for its light deserts is shelling out some heavy cash to settle a class action filed by disgruntled customers.
Pinkberry chief executive Ron Graves said Thursday that the frozen yogurt chain had settled the suit over whether its product was, technically, frozen yogurt.
[…]
The lawsuit also forced […]