Re: Bueller House

Highland Park, IL!!! Isn't that where Mr. T lives/lived?

All Right Fellas

Everybody needs to chip in for this one. No excuses.

For you Steve Martin fans

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrlqQ1_vZVE

What do you do with those hobgoblins?

Mystery Science Theater 3000 lives on, sort of. Might be worth checking out.

The definition of cool:

Commencement Spkrs

As someone who had to endure Jane Seymour telling me about life's lessons and her upcoming new fashion line, I find this idea really appealing. Ashland's speakers, though, have proven pretty solid considering it's a tiny liberal arts college in the center of Ohio. Blackwell was good; even Archie Griffin at my brother's commencement was solid.

Still, you need some top-class failures to give graduates a needed dose of reality. My suggestions for really failuretastic commencement speakers:

O.J. Simpson
Scott Weiland (supposedly clean... but meh)
Ryan Leaf
Tim Couch
John Edwards
Bernie Madoff
Adam Jones

Win

A long time ago, I thought sub 4 hrs was possible. The training taught me that it really wasn't, and when I was throwing up in a bathtub full of ice it also whispered to me, "you'll be lucky to finish at all, fatass."

So I'm pretty happy with this.

I will finally buy a Wii for this game

Nostalgia must be my prime mover.

I couldn't not share this one:

Skeleton Witch

I went to high school with Skeleton Witch's guitarist. You can see a picture of his gigantic red beard on my facebook page assuming he has a picture of himself for his profile at the moment. His name is Nate Garnett. Other than that I can't say I'd recommend the music.

Rock is not dead

I submit:

The Answer (my newest rock-crush)
They will rock you. Hard.



This is my favorite, but no video.

Priestess (don't let girls talk you into crazy death-metal despite its more awesome band name, i.e., Skeleton Witch)

( Seriously though, click on it. They are awesome.)

And of course The Sword and the now-defunct Wolfmother. I also look forward to Jack White's new band.

Obamas 100 days facebok feed

I'm sure this has been seen since it's in Slate and everyone else here is more likely to read that than I am, but nonetheless, I thought it was pretty funny.

VDH

As the author of such utterly convincing books as "Soul of Battle", sometimes his columns disappoint me. I'd characterize them as "hit or miss" but certainly not partisan. I think sometimes he can say to much about things he doesn't know much about, and comes off looking a bit shallow. Although, he is certainly not as grevious of an offender in that department as, say, Paul Krugman or Gore Vidal, who come off looking like no-nothing nitwits in half of their publications on politics or domestic/foreign policy. When he sticks to putting things in context and relating to their historiocity, he is quite persuasive.

VDH is not ideological as far as I can tell, and I find him an astute judge of motive. Sometimes he treads to lightly, like blaming the current economic crisis on "Wall Street greed". Well, no, that isn't true, but this certainly is:

"What, then, is the soul of battle? A rare thing indeed that arises only when free men march unabashedly toward the heartland of their enemy in hopes of saving the doomed, when their vast armies are aimed at salvation and liberation, not conquest and enslavement. Only then does battle take on a spiritual dimension, one that defines a culture, teaches it what civic militarism is and how it is properly used. Alexander, Hannibal, Caesar, Napoleon, and other great marshals used their tactical and strategic genius to alter history through the brutality of their armies. None led democratic soldiers. They freed no slaves nor liberated the oppressed. They were all aggressors, who created their matchless forces to kill rather than to preserve. As was true of most great captains of history, they fought for years on end, without democratic audit, and sought absolute rule as the prize of their victories. None were great men, and praise of their military prowess is forever tainted by the evil they wrought and the innocent they killed. They and their armies were without a moral sense and purpose, and thus their battles, tactically brilliant though they were, were soulless."