I have been wanting to do a fashion review of one of the big entertainment shows for some time. The main problem is that photos are always copyrighted so using them is out. So, what I will attempt is to link to the photo, and snark away.

The irony in this story is almost unbearable.

The Associated Press on Friday suspended the use of photos provided by the Defense Department after the Army distributed a digitally altered photo of the U.S. military’s first female four-star general.

The image of Army Gen. Ann E. Dunwoody is the second Army-provided photo the AP has eliminated from its service in the last two months.

The AP said that adjusting photos and other imagery, even for aesthetic reasons, damages the credibility of the information distributed by the military to news organizations and the public.

“For us, there’s a zero-tolerance policy of adding or subtracting actual content from an image,” said Santiago Lyon, the AP’s director of photography.

Las Vegas Sun

You don’t crop photos? You don’t alter brightness, contrast or color balance? You don’t publish photos provided to you without any investigation.

Oh, that last one, you do.

The Toy Hall of Fame is housed at the Strong National Museum of Play here in Rochester, New York. Every year the Hall recognizes a select few toys as worthy of the Hall of Fame.

This year toy selections [PDF] have been inducted, the skateboard, the baby doll and…

wait for it…

the stick. Yes, the ordinary, extraordinary stick finally gets its due.

And last but not least, one very unconventional “plaything”—the Stick!—has now taken its honored place in the hall. Found in all sizes in nature, sticks inspire spontaneous, unstructured play and can be used in unendingly imaginative ways—to draw in the sand on a beach, or to use as a magic wand, slingshot, light saber, fishing rod, or walking stick; not to mention playing stickball, toasting marshmallows, or playing “fetch” with your dog. Sticks are the original construction toys: children make toy buildings out of sticks and design toy boats with leaves for sails. Many an adult has picked up a driftwood souvenir from the beach, and artists and crafters use sticks in wreaths, chairs, and sculptures. The stick now keeps proud company with another untraditional “toy”—the Cardboard Box—inducted into the hall in 2005. After all, the best toy is often a plaything that’s free, easy to get, and a source of endless creativity.

That darn stick, the “poke your eye out” stick. It served as a rifle, a bat, a way to touch yucky things like dog poop and girls. Dogs love it. Moms hate it.

What a great day in America! The stick makes the Hall of Fame.

My brother sends a link to this story:

Tearful multi-millionaire Paris fluttered her eyes and told the News of the World: “Every other guy I’ve been out with has used me for money or sex – but in most cases they just want fame. It made it hard to trust people.”

Fox

Yep, you read that correctly. Mario Lopez, who played A.C. Slater on Saved By the Bell.

And people complained about Sarah Palin’s choices in interviews.

I’m a little acorn brown,
Lying on the cold, cold ground
Everybody steps on me
That is why I’m cracked you see

CHO: I’m a nut tch tch (sort of a clicky noise)

I’m a nut tch tch

I’m a nut I’m a nut I’m a nut tch tch

I can sing and I can dance
I wear ruffles on my…
sorry, boys, guess again
I wear ruffles on my dress

Called myself on the telephone
Just to see if I was home
With myself I made a date
Had to be there by half past eight.

Took myself to the movie show
Sat myself in the very first row
Wrapped my arms around my waist
When I got fresh I slapped my face

Grandpa’s beard is long & gray,
Growing grayer day by day,
Grandma eats it in her sleep
Says it tastes like shredded wheat,

Coca cola came to town
Pepsi cola shot’em down
Dr. Pepper fixed him up
Now we all drink 7up

Seven up got the flu
Now we all drink Mt. Dew
Mt. Dew went up the mountain
Now we all drink from a fountain.

LINK

Only one Senator has garnered more contributions from the fine folks at Freddie and Fannie than Barry Obama. The crisis in Washington seems almost certain to result in changes at those two companies.

Barry Obama stands for good jobs for Americans. The people who work at Freddie and Fannie have good jobs in America. Very good jobs. Barry, you need to preserve their jobs. Do it for America, Barry.

Go back to Washington. Help your contributors. Stay bought, Barry!

I’ll see you at the debate, bitches!

Andy Dick does drugs? OMFG, I had no idea! [/sarcasm]

On the site I have a category called Mocking and a subcategory from that called Canada. Why? Because it’s there.

I live in one of the few areas of the United States ever invaded by a foreign power. I can stand on the shore of Lake Ontario, turn my gaze north towards Toronto, raise my fist and shout “Damn you, ya limey bastards! We’ll get you for that!” Two hundred years isn’t too long to carry a grudge.

Many of us locals are getting our revenge, however. We get on the bus or drive on over to Casino Niagara and leave our devalued dollars in their Canadian slot machines. Take that, you hosers, take our devalued dollars! The joke’s on you…

Now, I have written glowingly about the actions of the Canadian military in Afghanistan. They’re punching above their weight class and probably rank second to us in the number of Taliban sent to Allah.

Maybe the Brits are in there, but they seem to have this policy of “We won’t shoot at you and you only shoot at us a little”.

Now, French Canada, well, I have fond memories.

In the early 1970′s a Catholic girls high school in Quebec used to send a bunch of its students down to my college to interact with the French Club and those of us taking French. Us being a bunch of horny American young men.

I’m not sure if any of those girls followed the Montreal Expos or not. I can say that reaching second base with them was as easy as it was with the Expos.

Perhaps it was all a plot to corrupt us. French Canadian boobage.

Did I mention that Canada invaded us? Just checking.

It was all the little things.

The 40-year-old actor and his 22-year-old wife, Shannon Price, are set to appear on TV’s “Divorce Court” on May 1 and 2. The couple wed in August after meeting on the set of the 2006 comedy “Church Ball.”

Among the problems the pair discusses with Judge Lynn Toler are Coleman’s anger and intimacy issues. Coleman and Price agree they have “ugly” monthly fights.

Fox News via Ace

Let’s face it. You can’t have Yurt Day without a group promoting the Yurt. As in so many areas, the West Coast is ahead of us and I give you:

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Always remember that home is where the yurt is. Help preserve Mother Yurt by only drinking kumiss.

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