1115.org gives us an excerpt from John Edwards' announcement that he's running for president. Powerful stuff.

It's no secret that I've been behind John Edwards from the start, and even more so after I actually got to see him speak a few months ago, but I was afraid that he was too good a guy to run again, particularly after all the good work he's been able to accomplish with the Poverty Center at the University of North Carolina. The man would make a tremendous president, no doubt. No doubt at all. And so, for the first time in my life, I'm sacking up and contributing to a political campaign. And I'd hope you'll do the same.

Mormon president? No thanks.

Two weeks ago, upon learning that Mitt Romney's a Mormon, I went through this same thing in my head but Weisberg actually "typed it up" and "put it on the internet" for "everyone else" to "read."

1115.org on how Obama consistently slams Dems to advance himself.

And why you shouldn't vote for him.

And I didn't link to it just because it endorses Johnny E.

But that didn't hurt, either.

Minute by minute: what happens when you drink a coke.

I'm neither pro- nor anti- Classic Coke drinking, but the biology's interesting.

via Gizmodo.

"The Tragic Squandering of Jack Black's Awesomeness."

Slate questions the need for a permanent moon-base.

And makes a fairly compelling case.

Does Justin agree?

I'm just gonna quote the hosting web-page on this:

What I love about it is just when you think it couldn't possibly get any worse, it does. By a lot. And it does this more than once. I smile every time I hear it.

Oh Holy Night. Worst. Version. Ever.

via Junkiness

Subscription to Vogue: $12.95/yr
HDTV: $999.99
Identifying by name your favorite (semi-obscure) model from Vogue during the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show: Priceless.

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It's also equal parts gay and straight, I think.

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I usually refrain from posting cheese-cake here, but I think you'll forgive me. Literally, I said, to the TV: "Hummina."

Larger.

More.

Scott Adams on moon real estate / vaporization.

Big Day (8,00, Tuesday, ABC)
I watched the pilot of Big Day when it aired last week, and, you know what? It makes it's time-slot-partner (the Danson-vehicle Help Me Help You) look like freaking early M*A*S*H. Yes, though Josh Cooke and Marla Sokoloff (the funnier/younger version of Jennifer Garner) are two of my favorite semi-crappy comedy actors, Big Day is such a travesty it's amazing. The premise: it is Cooke and Sokoloff's wedding day, and we're going to see it all, from 8:00AM to the end, one half-hour at a time, 24 style. Sounds horrible, right? Well it is. So very horrible. And it's not all the premise's fault, either, the writing itself is horrendous. It displays no ability to shape a story line and/or be funny. Either one, that's all I'm asking for: coherence or humor. I got neither.
And Wendy Malick's bitchy, controlling mother character? Worst. Ever.
Do NOT watch Big Day.
Preliminary series grade: F.

My Boys (9,00, Tuesday, TBS)
Jordana Spiro, who is husky-voiced in a not unsexy way, plays a writer for the Chicago Tribune who covers the Cubs. Only the cubs. And all her friends are dudes. And there's a new guy at work (from the Sun-Times), played by Kyle Howard--not playing 19 for once, thank god--and she's interested in him, but she doesn't know how to be a woman! Hahahahaha! It is funny because she works in a job that usually men have, and she is bad at being feminine! Hahahahaha! She has a stereotypically female friend who gives her advice like "you need to wear something cute." Hahahahahaha! Funny!
All mocking of the premise aside, the show's pretty well executed (provided you mute the damn TV during the opening and closing voice-over where she makes a baseball metaphor, reminding you that she, like, totally knows a lot about baseball). The cast is solid, and when she starts saying all the guy-like things as she's trying to hook up with the new-guy, watching him freak out because of it is pretty funny. And her friends, though somewhat stock-charactery, are funny (or at least funny-ish), though the tremendous Jim Gaffigan is underused.
Anyway, I can't give you a final grade yet, 'cause this one could go either way. If you're up for it, watch it tonight and tell me what you think. You can always catch one of the five re-runs of the Daily Show tomorrow.
Preliminary grade: C? B?

Rocky based on Jesus.

Apparently Jesus lost at the end of the first movie.

Who knew?

"But this shirt goes to eleven."

All three seasons of Arrested Development for 34$ on Amazon right now.

I've been holding out on buying until I could get a deal like this.

Now I own AD.

via dethroner.

Indexed: Vinn Diagram: Christmas -OR- Lord of the Rings

Discovered via Filmoculous' list of underappreciated blogs, via BoingBoing.

The new nail. It's amazingly better than the old nail.

via kottke

I SWEAR that I read more than just kottke, damnit, I read twenty, thirty damn blogs it's just that kottke's consistently the most damn interesting one, damnit. Damn.