I know America is no longer the powerhouse it once was, but are we really confusing Andy Roddick and Ryan Harrison?
RODDICK IS THE ONE NEXT TO BROOKLYN DECKER.
Pictogram History Poster: The History of Darth Vader.
If only everything could be this simple.
Tom Friedman hopes to have the words “A Theory of Everything (Sort Of)” on his tombstone, which will be made in China, cheaply.
Americans are already living with the consequences of electing a President who sounded good but had achieved little as a legislator and had no executive experience. Mrs. Bachmann will have to persuade voters she isn’t the conservative version of Mr. Obama.
Maybe just chill out, FIFA.
“Is our pastime so past, its vision so backward, that, with his team lacking its own history, Fred Wilpon (or some second-tier manager) was so desperate for a folksy, Mickey-and-the-Duke feel that he had to glom on to the history of the Dodgers?”
That’s Grantland writer Peter Richmond lamenting the depressing nature of Citifield, along with virtually every other new American stadium. Richmond argues that most of these stadia are designed with revenue in mind and very little else. And it’s a shame, when you spend a billion dollars of taxpayer money on something, the least they can do is make it DIFFERENT.
-DM
[Grantland] (via the20s)
This piece is really very good. But man, this footnote is obnoxious: This is all I can tell you about Jacques Derrida: One early afternoon, when I was taking a graduate-level philosophy course as an undergrad at an Ivy League school in New Haven, I was getting drunk at Rudy’s on Elm Street with a PhD candidate in philosophy. In the middle of our second pitcher he turned to me and said, “Do you have a fucking clue what Derrida is talking about?”
(On some level, Richmond’s essay encapsulates both the best and worst of GLand.)
My College Is Smarter Than Your College! Those are the top 9 colleges from Forbes magazine, and they based their rankings strictly on market value, or whether or not your half-a-mil was well spent. And I should say, if your folks can afford to send you to Williams for $54K a year, then it probably doesn’t matter all that much where you go to college. You’ll be fine.
-DM
[Michael Mendelson]
I’ll take 32. Could be way worse.
This is really very hard to explain.
Elin Nordegren enrolled at Rollins College, studying psychology.
I’ll just leave that alone.
Today’s sign of the apocalypse? Sales of aluminum bats on Amazon.co.uk are up 5,149% in the last 24 hours.
(Thanks, @erikmal)
The bride will take the name “Lauren Bush Lauren.”
There’s always tomorrow?
HOQUIAM, Wash. (AP) — Police say a man was carrying a dead weasel when he burst into an apartment and assaulted a man in Washington state.
The victim asked, “Why are you carrying a weasel?” Police said the attacker answered, “It’s not a weasel, it’s a marten,” then punched him in the nose and fled.
The attacker was apparently looking for his girlfriend and had gone to her former boyfriend’s apartment Monday where the victim was a guest.
KXRO reports he left the carcass behind.
Police later found the 33-year-old Hoquiam man arguing with his girlfriend at another location and arrested him after a fight.
He said he had found the marten dead near Hoquiam, but police don’t know why he carried it with him.
A marten is a member of the weasel family.
Thanks HAB
The victim asked, “Why are you carrying a weasel?” Police said the attacker answered, “It’s not a weasel, it’s a marten,” then punched him in the nose and fled.
Brian at Run of Play let me drop in with some thoughts about Clint Dempsey. He sure is nice. Brian, not Dempsey. Clint is terrifying. And that’s sort of the point.
Is it Friday yet?
