10 most historically inaccurate movies

While I disagree with some of the selections on this list, it is worth pointing out that Mel Gibson has been involved in 30 percent of these films. Speaking of history on film, we've been watching Season 1 of The Tudors this weekend. It makes for a compelling drama - but as I'm not well versed in English history I'm not sure what is fact and what is fiction. For instance, did Thomas Boleyn really pimp out his daughter (yes, actual pimping - pay attention David Schuster) to persuade the king to axe Cardinal Wolsey as his adviser?

bear witness

weather report

With each repeated viewing I get closer to the truth.

what's the frequency, vera?

Fox 11 morning news show helicopter pilot/traffic reporter Rick Dickert may have the name. But my heart will always lie with the beautiful Vera Jimenez. The best part of waking up - besides my morning cup of Joe - are her glorious blue screen traffic reports.

free money!

Pentagon gives inexperienced 22 year-old $300 million contract

lord have mercy

from Detroit Rock City, 1999.

so...

How's that surge going?

funny that it took them so long to realize hillary is a power mad egotrip who will do anything to become president

This alone has to amount to some sort cosmic encounter like something out of a Wagner opera. Remember, this is the guy who spent millions of dollars puffing up wingnut fantasies about Hillary's having Vince Foster whacked and lots of other curdled and ugly nonsense. Scaife was the nerve center of the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy. Those of us who spent years defending the Clintons from all that malarkey learned this point on day one.

Link: Ya Think?

you can thank the permatemps for this one

Nothing conveys the serious threat of car bombs like an official State Department document titled "When Broken Down Vehicles Go Boom!"

slick as snake oil

Another casualty of the GOP primary season.

hell yeah

The Raconteurs, "Salute Your Solution"

kate beckinsale would rather eat vagina than sushi

st. john and his disciples

Visit Area 51 for the explosive version.

only 1.8 billion to go...

la cumbia de rambo

Rambo doesn't like war. Rambo likes to dance!

via atormentado.

don't fuck wit da police

a bad case of crabs

Bow down before the greatness that is...the Ninja Terminator!

but we're still fantastic

The front page of today's Reg.

man i love these blue blockers

it works better if you use your upper forehead

The "Soccer Header Fail", my own submission to FAIL Blog.

then he began to wash the disciples’ feet

About six students set up a demonstration depicting waterboarding torture of Guantanamo Bay detainees on Wednesday. Then, they demonstrated a different kind of treatment and symbolically washed the feet of a student dressed as a detainee.

Jake Olzen is a 23-year-old pastoral studies graduate student at the Jesuit school in Chicago. He says the demonstration symbolizes the violence shown in the war and juxtaposes with people's capacity for nonviolent compassion.

Link: Loyola Students Protest 5 Years Of Iraq War

always something there to remind me

I received an ad in the mail for Fitness Boot Camp. Me thinks the dude pictured above looks as excited as the kids below. They do run run.

another reason i regret romney dropped out so soon

It also holds small varmints.

woman finds crack cocaine in sandwich

five years

step inside

...and stay

you don't have to do the crime to do the time

haute cotoure

"Understood in its totality, the spectacle is both the result and the project of the dominant mode of production. It is not a mere decoration added to the real world. It is the very heart of this real society’s unreality. In all of its particular manifestations — news, propaganda, advertising, entertainment — the spectacle represents the dominant model of life. It is the omnipresent affirmation of the choices that have already been made in the sphere of production and in the consumption implied by that production. In both form and content the spectacle serves as a total justification of the conditions and goals of the existing system. The spectacle also represents the constant presence of this justification since it monopolizes the majority of the time spent outside the production process." (SotS 1:6)

war is a gas

fiVe years later.

No weapons of maSS Destruction.

Still mass hysteria.

war is a gAs.

dinner, flowers, jewelry

"If they ask," she said, "You say, 'Sadly there are some women who feel that when they have an intimate experience with someone they need to get paid for it. This is something that is not healthy, and I don't accept it or condone it.' "

Then, Kuriansky said, parents should steer the conversation toward the kind of healthy relationship children should aspire to. "Shift it to what is positive," she said.

Link: Scandal hard to keep from children

understanding in a car crash

Deputies say bystanders helped capture a naked man after he ran from a car crash in Laguna Niguel. Orange County authorities say the man ran from a Volvo that plowed into a parked car and flipped over Wednesday.

The driver ran down a street until he fell and was subdued by bystanders and an arriving deputy. Geoffrey Turnbull, 42, of Laguna Niguel was arrested for investigation of drunken driving. Authorities said tests will determine whether he also was under the influence of drugs.

Link: Naked man caught by bystanders after car crash

no more malcolm

Breaking Bad.

dig yourself