In other news, I've been informed that the Chinese government is blocking access to this blog.

I'm flattered.

And the Barry Bonds ball will go to Cooperstown with an asterisk branded on it. Link.

"Tell me where the bomb is or I'll.......you're so pretty."

Kiefer Sutherland arrested for drunk driving.

Marc Ecko, the fashion designer who bought Barry Bonds' 756th home run ball, is putting on a public vote to determine the ball's fate. From SI.com:

Ecko, 35, has set up a Web site that lets visitors vote on three options for the ball: give it to the National Baseball Hall of Fame, brand it with an asterisk before sending it to Cooperstown or blast it into space on a rocket ship.

...

Bonds said Ecko could have found a better way to spend three-quarters of a million dollars.

"He's stupid. He's an idiot," Bonds said. "He spent $750,000 on the ball and that's what he's doing with it? What he's doing is stupid."

Ecko did not directly respond to Bonds' comments Wednesday, but said in a statement he would make Bonds a custom T-shirt that says, "Marc Ecko paid $752,467 for my ball, and all I got was this 'stupid' T-shirt."'

See, this is why I love rich people. I'm actually a bit torn as to what I want done with the ball. The most appealing option at the outset is to blast the sucker into space. But then again, maybe we should save Bonds' shame for posterity by branding it with an asterisk and sending it to Cooperstown. You can vote at Vote756.com...Or you can do it right here. Of course, I'm leaving that first option off the table...

Sweet mercy.....Can it be true?

The Jack Sack reports that Remote Access reports that TV Guide reports that Fox announced in a press release that TONY ALMEIDA WILL RETURN IN SEASON 7 OF 24.

To be updated...

You ever see a headline and imagine something completely different?

'Dole recalls bagged salads due to E. coli'

The new hot tourist destination in the Twin Cities? Larry Craig's restroom stall, says the BBC.

Re: RUBBER GAME

We could use some more of this too:

RUBBER GAME.

We need this. Do it to 'em, Dodgers.

Bush: 'I can't remember why we disbanded the Iraqi army'

Yup. The single worst mistake of the war and possibly the precipitating factor in the rise of the insurgency, but Bush apparently has no idea why we did it:

"The policy was to keep the army intact. Didn't happen," he told the book's author, Robert Draper.

Asked how he had reacted then to the crucial decision by former Iraq administrator Paul Bremer to dissolve the army, the president said: "I can't remember, I'm sure I said, 'This is the policy, what happened?'"

Then he referred to Stephen Hadley, his national security advisor, saying: "Hadley's got the notes on all of this stuff."

By the way, Michigan...

. . . Don't f&%k with I-AA.

Lucky you were messing around with those yokels from North Carolina...

The Great Debaters (cont'd)

Second thought on that movie. It stars Denzel Washington, Forrest Whittaker, and some guy named Denzel Whittaker.

That has to be made up.

The Great Debaters

Was just alerted to this by a friend. Movie coming out next year called The Great Debaters starring Denzel Washington. It's about a professor at a small Texas college in 1935 that forms a debate team and ultimately takes on Harvard in the national championship. Sounds like a mix of Hoosiers and Listen to Me.

I will be seeing this.

Try and tell me this isn't Iran's version of "I'm the decider":

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has sought to justify his confidence the United States will not attack Iran, saying the proof comes from his mathematical skills as an engineer and faith in God, the press reported on Monday. ...

"In some discussions I told them 'I am an engineer and I am examining the issue. They do not dare wage war against us and I base this on a double proof'," he said in the speech on Sunday, reported by the reformist Etemad Melli and Kargozaran newspapers.

"I tell them: 'I am an engineer and I am a master in calculation and tabulation.

"I draw up tables. For hours, I write out different hypotheses. I reject, I reason. I reason with planning and I make a conclusion. They cannot make problems for Iran.'"