More Fun With Idiots

Via the Unnecessary Quotation Marks Blog comes this gleeful ode to the high school dropouts that work in bakeries and bakery departments of supermarkets - the Cake Wreck Blog!

If you don't laugh at the Olympic rings cake, you're on the wrong blog.

Unhappy Frog Faces

I try to make it a hard and fast rule never to miss an opportunity to show the French get defeated in the most crushing way imaginable. So revel in this beauty of an athletic accomplishment by the men's 4x100 freestyle relay team in Beijing. The fever pitch in the announcers' voices for the last 25 meters is what great announcing is all about. I've watched this 5 times already and gotten goosebumps every single time. USA - USA - USA!!

"O" My God

I thought the Obama campaign seal was over the top:


But this Obama salute takes the cake:


When they introduce the official uniform of the Obama movement I'm packing up my Gizmo Trapper Keeper and heading for the hills.

An Endless List

I'm a little late in passing this along, but a good friend of this blog (sometimes known as Vanilla Fro) has been doing the "racist" shtick for over a decade now... and it's still hilarious. Here's Peter Kirsanow on The Corner with 25 examples of racism related to Obama. It's a bit lacking in humor, and definitely too long, but the idea at the heart of the post is wonderful. I will never forget the bewildered look on a friend's face when called a racist because he ordered a chicken parm sub. Nor will I soon forget the joy in his eyes as he turned to another buddy and called him a racist for suggesting the chicken parm in the first place. Strangers nearby were horrified - and they didn't know why. Priceless.

"Unnecessary" "Quotation" "Marks"

Since there seems to be some interest in "pop culture" (not really pop and certainly not culture apparently) around this blog, how about a delightful blog that is one of my favorite places on the "World Wide Web". It's The “Blog” of “Unnecessary” Quotation Marks and I find that every few weeks or so it lifts my spirits to check it out and see what dumb-ass things these geniuses have discovered related to the title subject. My personal favorite is way back in the "older posts" section and dealt with a very ambiguous soup called "New England" "Clam" "Chowder" that I have good reason to believe is actually Cuban Chicken Soup. Enjoy.

A Call to Arms, or a Call to Words?

Since our good man/instigator C"C"C has dragged me back in (a la Pacino in the Godfather movie we should never mention), here's a delightful and short piece by my good friend Jonah Goldberg via Real Clear Politics. I think this hints at the never-ending contrast of meaning vs. truth as it pertains to liberals. The end is my favorite part:

In Berlin two weeks ago, Obama's speech was justified solely by the fact that he was giving it. He offered no policy and — not being a president — really had no reason to be there other than to tell people, essentially, "now is the moment."
He informed the throbbing masses, bathing in his charisma the way hippies
wallowed in the mud at Woodstock, that the greatest threat facing the world is the possibility we might allow "new walls to divide us from one another." Nuclear war? Feh. No, walls, walls are the danger. Of course, these new walls aren't real. Some might even say they're just words.
But not Barack Obama.

Open Call to Hit Slow-Pitch Softballs

Just stopped by and dusted off this old blog after almost six - yes, six - months of inexplicable inactivity.

It goes without saying that much has happened since February, and there has been much to write about since I posted the blog's most recent entry, which, as we all know, did little more than frivolously announce the then-imminent gathering of Ironic Beer luminaries known as "QB II." Since then, we've been gifted with a treasure trove of juicy pop cultural and political topics - e.g., the death of Heath Ledger; the Presidential race and attendant speculation over the selection of VPs; Oba-mania abroad; the death of Tim Russert; skyrocketing gas prices and the call for energy reform; and, as always, the continuing decline in American culture and Western Civilization in general.

With so many tantalizing topical fish in the barrel of American sociopolitical culture these days, it's baffling - nay, unacceptable - that not one of us meatheads, all of whom pledged to use their blogging powers for mutual titillation (remember?), has managed to type so much as a word since before the Vernal Equinox. My brothers-in-arms, have you lost your intellectual curiosity, your passion for debate, your enthusiasm for the misfortune of prominent public figures? Have you no self respect? Have you no decency?