Our friends at the Center For Consumer Freedom are launching a new ad campaign featuring Seinfelds infamous culinary curmudgeon, the Soup Nazi. Its good for a few shits and giggles.

Keep an eye out for Richie Incognito around campus. The former Nebraska lineman will be enrolled at the UO this year, taking anger management classes and trying to avoid the issues (misdemeanor assault etc) that led to his departure from Lincoln. The Oregonian’s John Canzano (complete with that slightly unsettling staccato sportswriter style; here there be many one-sentence paragraphs) nears apoplexy here and here. Bellotti doesn’t think he’s a risk.

We shall see. I wonder if it’s possible to preemptively 86 someone from Taylor’s?

(Hat tip: OSF.)

The manifesto of the Campaign for Courtesy is addressed by the scintillating Harry Hutton, here.

UPDATE: I don’t usually hold with attempts to subvert Google, but I’ll make an exception for someone trying to make the best of being ranked 23rd in searches for “British National Party“.

Alas, Russ Meyer is dead. The AP is slightly more upbeat about his ouevre than MSNBC. Me, I mostly just wanted to use the headline.

Transcript of Jon Stewart’s appearence on the O’Reilly Factor, here. (First noticed on Wonkette.) Does exactly what it says on the box. Includes stunning revelations about guests’ snack provisions.

According to O’Reilly, 87% of people who watch the Daily Show are intoxicated. I don’t think there’s necessarily any causation there, though. I find it more credible to believe that 87% of people are intoxicated by 11 PM. It’s certainly the case in my neighborhood.

Radley Balko – still the sixth thing that comes up when you Google “dan atkinson oregon”, incidentally – has a nice bouquet of anti-MADD zingers. (Link via Instapundit. Keep an eye out for former OC editors in comment section.) One dissonant note from the WSJ story he links to:

…The Andersons weighed those risks [associated to underage drinking] carefully before agreeing to host what became known around their community as a “key party” for Gregg, their youngest son.

Good for the Andersons. However, would it be possible for them and their community to call these events something other than “key parties”? It’s making me flash back to The Ice Storm.

It’s a title that needed to be claimed: Little Green Footballs Watch Watch Watch.

Is the election over yet? Who lost? Whoever it was, I’m glad it was them.

Direct your attention to this story by OC alum Ben Brown. Then direct your attention to the fifteenth comment down below. Note where it was posted from. Then go about your day, perhaps whistling a happy tune. Unless you’re in Taiwan, in which case I’d recommend that you move.

I wasn’t going to link to this. It’s far too easy, and more importantly, it’s yet another shout-out to Volokh. But seriously, follow the link. It’s wonderful. I don’t think I’ve seen him do a number on someone like this since that one historian fellow who wanted to compare taxation to slavery.

[In fact, to complete the perfect lazy blog-posting trifecta for me, it’s on Hit & Run as well. Sanchez comments:

…while I’ve always taken exception to the conservative notion that “gay marriage” is an oxymoron, I suspect there’s a decent case to be made that “sadomasochistic marriage” is redundant.]

Must be election season.

My own feelings on the presidential election are more or less irrelevant, but I will break cover to announce that this is absolutely my favorite scandal yet. I had thought to automatically exclude anything involving Vietnam (and, by extension, Cambodia) from the list of honor, but the presence of words like “kern”, “em”, “ligature” and “Selectric”, and the overall aggressive geekiness of the topic have forced me to reconsider.

The Plastic thread is delightful. So are the many discussions over at Free Republic. (As a bonus – as if one were needed! – comment 47 in the Freeper link is apparently the one that got the whole thing started. So if the memos were a deliberately incompetent forgery planted by the RNC, that would be their whistleblower. Ah, I love this stuff.)

On the whole, this guy has the most persuasive take on the technical aspects. But you have to hope this one plays and plays. “Kern”. “Ligature”. It’s as though Neal Stephenson finally got to script one of these things, instead of people like James Carville and Karl Rove.

We’re apparently getting bunches, MT blacklist is pretty helpful, but for some reason some comment emails are not reaching me, so I’ve been manually deleting and banning ips. Also, I’ve added all of the entries from Jane Galt’s blacklist to ours. I’m hoping this takes care of the damn problem, because it sure is annoying. Especially now that it’s started to be a problem on the mainpage.

Screw President, man. I want to be the king of Swaziland!

Twenty-thousand bare-breasted dancers? Damn, that puts the Hot Body Club to shame, and then some.

I was reading through the Daily Mirror today, which is good for a few laughs, and I came across this story. It is about a new book that is coming out, authored by Kitty Kelley, in which she details George Bushs alleged white powder fetish.

Apparently the book is obsessed with the old, boring claims that Bush used to be a coke head, which we all remember from the last election cycle. These claims couldnt interest me less, nor do I think there is much validity to the more outlandish claims, such as the one about Bush snorting lines at Camp David when his father was prez. Apparently Kelly was paid a four million dollar advance for the book

I really dont care whether or not Bush participated in the drug culture of the late sixties; we are going to be hard pressed to find a baby boomer presidential candidate who didnt experiment, as weve learned with Clinton, Gore and now, yes, Bush. It boggles my mind that people still get into a tizzy about allegations of drug use by presidential candidates, especially when the allegations involve drug use that took place 25 years prior. For all I care, Bush could have spent much of 1970 face down in a mountain of cocaine, like Tony Montana in Scarface (in fact, this would impress me greatly). As for the allegations that Bush snorted coke at Camp David dont believe it. Remember those allegations concerning Clinton running drugs from a backwater Arkansas airport when he was Governor? They were equally dubious.

And just in case you are one of the dozens of people who believe that the Daily Mirror is stringent about checking its facts and getting the whole story, I give you this quote at the bottom of the story, contained within a mini paragraph, attributed to a pre-surgery Bill Clinton (I’m not quite sure why this is at the bottom of the page, actually):

“This sure isn’t how we planned to spend Labor Day weekend but we’re doing our best to enjoy it.”

The problem is, this appeared on the Bill Clinton Blog which is an obvious hoax. If youve read any of it, and you have a reasonable amount of critical reading skills, this is self evident. I mean, theres one posting where Clinton writes about going to a gay club with Kevin Spacey before hightailing it to a hetero club, where the women were all over him, clawing, pushing and kissing him, fighting for his attention before a cat fight broke out, at which point one woman fought off her assailants with lip stick. Funny? Yes. True? Um, what do you think?

Good job, Daily Mirror. Keep reaching for that journalistic rainbow!

There were so many terrific speeches at the GOP National Convention, from Jenna and Barbara Bushs hilarious send-up of the outmoded set-up, punch line comedy rule, to Zell Millers rousing call to arms, but my favorite speech was Arnold Schwarzeneggers, in which he once again used his girly men phrase to paint the Dems as, well, homos.

I like what Schwarzenegger is doing with political rhetoric, which is usually so staid and stately. And by using a line from an old Saturday Night Live sketch that made fun of his 80s-era persona, co-opting it, and using it to define the political persona that hes created for himself, he has constructed a political/cultural metanarrative wherein he is referencing a reference once used to mock him. But if thats too highbrow for you, you have the sight of Schwarzenegger standing behind a podium, impugning the opposition for being total fags on the issues.

Just for the hell of it, heres my list of political figures and the phrases you can use to describe them using the new rhetoric. Its a failsafe rhetorical device.

Dems.
John Kerry: Capn Colon Cleanser
John Edwards: Kerrys Fairy
Al Gore: Not So Locked Box

Repubs.
Bush: The Gay Hitler
Cheney: Super Fagasaurous
Karl Rove: The Rectal Rover
Mary Cheney: Dyke Um, moving on

I’m celebrating my return to the sedentary, Internet-dependent lifestyle by plowing through all the excellent Reason coverage of the RNC. As with their stuff from Boston earlier this year, it’s mostly golden. Headline refers to this.