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The Physics of Not Spilling Coffee

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Scientists are hard at work on figuring out how not to spill coffee. MailOnline (“It’s all in the walk: Scientists explore the physics behind NOT spilling coffee“): Researchers are a step closer to understanding the science behind one of life’s common pitfalls – spilling coffee. Scientists from the University of California, Santa Barbara, decided to [...]

Have A Good War!

Little kid completely half-asses his letter to a soldier in combat.

HappyPlace posts the above photo under the headline, “Little kid completely half-asses his letter to a soldier in combat.” via Sky Gerrond, who claims “I got at least a dozen letters like this.”

All You Can Eat: Right There in the Constitution

A man is picketing a Wisconsin restaurant for failure to live up to its “All You Can Eat” sign. The two sides offer wildly different accountings of the facts here. If, in fact, Whitt was sharing his food with a buddy, then he’s clearly violated the terms of the arrangement. If, on the other hand, [...]

Thomas Friedman Is An Enormous Mustache

Thomas Friedman is like a goldfish who only sees China, jobs, and the Internet.

Day’s Funniest Headline

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The Day’s Funniest Headline

Facts, RIP

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Rex Huppke reports, “Facts died Wednesday, April 18, after a long battle for relevancy with the 24-hour news cycle, blogs and the Internet.”

Ted Nugent Said Something Stupid; I Apologize

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Ted Nugent, whose music I really liked when I was in junior high school, said something vile and crazy.

Ensign Chuck Hord, Lost at Sea

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The story of Ensign Chuck Lord may be the greatest—or perhaps only—prank in Pentagon art history

Texts From Hillary

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton checks her PDA upon her departure in a military C-17 plane from Malta bound for Tripoli,  Libya

A brand new Tumblr site with an amusing premise. So far, this is my favorite:

New Yorker: Santorum on Romney’s Car Roof

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The New Yorker’s cover has Rick Santorum in a doghouse strapped atop Mitt Romney’s car.

Barbara Boxer Channels The Daily Show

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Barbara Boxer takes the Daily Show’s “The Vagina Ideologues” bit out of context and deconstructs it during the Senate’s Blunt amendment debate.

Money, Bombs, and Jesus

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A discussion in the comments thread of my “Time Running Out For GOP?” post led me to a post from four-plus years ago by frequent commenter and erstwhile blogger* Michael Reynolds titled “Money, Bombs and Jesus.”

OTB Caption Contest

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Time for the Monday OTB Caption ContestTM

OTB Caption Contest Winners

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The Love You Long Time Edition OTB Caption ContestTM is now over.

Romney, Gingrich, and Who’s On First

Someone took a clip of a Romney/Gingrich debate exchange, added in a classic comedy routine, and had a little fun:

A Picture Says 1000 Words: Survivor Edition

The rock group Survivor, around 1979. Their hit "Eye of the Tiger" was used by Newt Gingrich. (GAB Archive/Redferns via Getty Images)

One wonders why any Republican politician would want to be associated with this image.

Correction of the Day

An earlier version of this article incorrectly stated whom Newt Gingrich is said to have asked for an “open marriage.” It was an ex-wife, not his current wife.

Newt’s Grandiose Thoughts

A Selection Of Speaker Gingrich’s Thoughts Over The Years

Seasons Greetings

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Please accept with no obligation, implied or implicit, my best wishes for an environmentally conscious, socially responsible, low stress, non-addictive, gender neutral, celebration of the winter solstice holiday, practiced within the most enjoyable traditions of the religious persuasion of your choice, or secular practices of your choice, with respect for the religious/secular persuasions and/or traditions [...]

Christmas Carols For The TSA Era

The guys at Reason.Tv did a nice job with this one, I think; Lyrics: Grandma got indefinitely detained now coming home to visit Christmas Eve You could say she had a right to counsel but some folks in the Congress disagree she was flying home to our house when she got checked by TSA thought [...]

Kim Jong Il’s Death Sparks Interest in ‘Team America’

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Andrew Sullivan‘s posting of Team America’s depiction of a puppet Kim Jong Il singing “I’m So Ronery” naturally sent me to look for other snippets from the flick. Apparently, I’m not the only one. NY Daily News (“‘Team America: World Police’ surges as Twitter topic following Kim Jong Il’s death“): The death of Kim Jong [...]

Can Men And Women Just Be Friends?

Two filmmakers at Utah State University seek to answer the question:

Why Is Rick Perry Declaring War On Christmas?

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Consider: Happy Holidays? What are you Governor, some kind of Secular Humanist? Found via Twitter

More of the Pepper Spray Meme

For those who enjoyed yesterday’s post, more here:  Pepper Spray Cop / Casually Pepper Spray Everything Cop.

Eat, Fry, Love – William Shatner Cooks a Turkey

William Shatner loves deep-fried turkey, but over many Thanksgivings and Christmases he’s made mistakes, burned himself, and nearly burned down his house. In this dramatic retelling, Bill shows us how dangerous turkey fryers can be.

Inglorious Basterds-Fantastic Mr. Fox Mashup

A trailer for Wes Anderson’s Fantastic Mr. Fox using dialogue from Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds

Jon Stewart Skewers Herman Cain

Last night’s opening segment on The Daily Show was brutal for Herman Cain, but hilarious for the rest of us: Part One: The Daily Show with Jon StewartGet More: Daily Show Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire Blog,The Daily Show on Facebook Part Two: The Daily Show with Jon StewartGet More: Daily Show Full Episodes,Political Humor [...]

The Inevitable “Hitler Reacts To Joe Paterno’s Firing” Video

It’s a meme that will not die………… Warning: NSFW subtitles

Rick Perry Children’s Book

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The Rick Perry “Oops!” gaffe from last night’s debate reminds me of one of my oldest daughter’s favorite books, Blue Hat, Green Hat by Sandra Boynton.

Mike Tyson Does Herman Cain

Former heavyweight champion of the world and convicted rapist Mike Tyson satires former pizza mogul and erstwhile Republican frontrunner Herman Cain: Herman Cain’s Campaign Promises with Mike Tyson from Mike Tyson Via John Cole, who observes, “The part about tea partiers loving crazy more than they hate blacks made me laugh out loud.” “A restaurant [...]

Women Can’t Drink Water

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Diana Wueger passes along word that, “Drinking water from a water bottle is among the lesser known challenges that come along with double-X chromosomes.” I had been unaware but she provides substantial anecdotal evidence.

OTB Exclusive: CIA Reading Newspapers, Watching Cable Networks

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DEVELOPING STORY: In a well-marked building in McLean, Virginia, hundreds of CIA analysts are reading newspapers and watching cable news networks for information that might be helpful in assessing terrorist networks. Often, sources tell OTB, this information is pieced together in order to then kill people in faraway countries using drones. Additionally, as a wildly [...]

Occupy Death Star

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Perhaps I should take this whole “Occupy” movement more seriously: H/T: The Pajama Pundit

Tomorrow’s Gaddafi Stories Today

Spencer Ackermann previews “The Post-Gadhafi Journalism You Will Read In The Next 72 Hours.”

Santorum Says ‘Bullied’ by SNL

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Rick Santorum says Saturday Night Live is bullying” him  for “standing up for the traditional family.”

Jon Stewart on Making ‘The Daily Show’

Jon Stewart describes how “The Daily Show” comes together while wearing a 1st Cav baseball cap. “The best shows are made of the smallest moments,” says Stewart. “Donald Trump eating pizza with a fork, and making that into eight minutes of a completely overblown sanctimonious rant on the apostasy of eating pizza with a fork.”

SNL Takes On Blog Comments Sections

Last night, Saturday Night Live took on the always interesting world of blog comments sections:

Onion: Congress Hostage Tweets

Arlington gun shop confirms Rep. @EricCantor bought 6 semi-automatic handguns, 3 rifles & 600 clips of ammo last month #CongressHostage

Beginning with “BREAKING: Witnesses reporting screams and gunfire heard inside Capitol building,” a series of tweets with the #CongressHostage hashtag have been decidedly unfunny.

Hallmark’s New Idea: Sympathy Cards For The Unemployed

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File this one under there’s a market for everything: Greeting card companies have taken a cue from the nation’s 9 percent unemployment rate. In a six-by-four inch envelope, someone can send a friend who lost his or her job a pre-printed message of encouragement and sympathy. Though not available at every corner store, layoff greeting [...]

Oxford Comma Cartoon

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I’m not sure when “the strippers, JFK, and Stalin” would be used in a sentence given that Stalin died in 1953, when JFK was in his first year in the Senate and thus unlikely to be invited to parties with heads of state, but this is amusing nonetheless: via Brian J. Noggle’s Facebook

Saturday Night Live Does “Either The 7th Or 8th” Republican Debate

Saturday Night Live was back last night and, not surprisingly, their cold open dealt quite nicely with the Republican race for the White House:

Photo Op FAIL Of The Day: International Not-So-Much Diplomacy Edition

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Yesterday in New York, President Obama posed for a photograph with an International Open Government Partnership event: The gentlemen who was blocked is apparently a representative from Mongolia.

A Great Argument For Raising Taxes From Bill O’Reilly

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Bill O’Reilly makes a convincing argument for raising taxes on the wealthy.

Earthquakes and the Internet

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When an earthquake hits, people flood the internet with posts about it–some within 20 or 30 seconds.

CNN Can’t Find Tripoli On A Map, At Least Not The Right One

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CNN correspondent Sara Sidner is in Tripoli, Libya reporting on the rebel advance into the city. Unfortunately when she was interviewed recently whoever was in charge of graphics at CNN must’ve been someone who flunked geography: There is a Tripoli, Lebanon, of course, but it isn’t currently under rebel assault, and presumably not the hideout [...]

Interview with a One-Year-Old

Arturo Trejo conducts a hard-hitting interview with his son, Jose Luis

The Receipt Is Too Damn Long

Rebecca J. Rosen explains why “Ridiculously Long CVS Receipts Will Remain Ridiculously Long.” And Mitch Hedberg ponders why they give you a receipt for a donut.

Password Strength FAIL

Through 20 years of effort, we've successfully trained everyone to use passwords that are hard for humans to remember but easy for computers to guess

Through 20 years of effort, we’ve successfully trained everyone to use passwords that are hard for humans to remember but easy for computers to guess.

Kurt Vonnegut on the Shapes of Stories

Kurt Vonnegut on teaching a computer to write a story.

Headline of the Day – Debt Deal Edition

“Anders Breivik’s crazy list of demands is being kept away from President Obama because Obama loves giving crazy people everything they want”  - Fark

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