The Great Liberal Pundit, Scarlett Johansson

Wearing a sweater vest is wrong, but this isn't?

This picture, by the way, does not distress me; I've lived rural enough to know that flowers sometimes grow next to cow patties.

Scarlett Johansson in Us:

"Oh gosh, so sad," the We Bought a Zoo actress said. "My dad wore them, and, I mean, they're charming for family photos I guess, and dinner with the grandparents. I think there's an ironic way to wear a sweater vest but other than that I'm not sure!"

Obviously money has insulated her from the ill effects of having a fashionable president.

One That Didn't Make It Into the Cute Post

Not Unhappy With This at All

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Good Dad

He should have turned in surprise, "You're not Bobby! Why did you pretend to be your brother?"

h/t: presurfer

Halftime in America

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Positioned to Bite Anyone Who Reaches for the Salted Butter

"And you know what? One of the things about being president is you get better as time goes on,"
-Barack Obama

Sheesh. It's the first real job you've ever had, of course you get better at it when you start from zero.

What is the reelection slogan this time? Another four years of "We didn't realize it was this bad"?

Ad Be Gone

Remember this guy from before?

Breathtaking Images from the Hubble Telescope

Long Overdue Cute

All found through Al Gore's ingenious device.

Altered Message

I'm trying to list the things that differentiate this revolution from Halloween 2006. So far, all I've come up with is the difference in date.

Race to Rock Bottom

Obama's promises in Falls Church: 'We'll all refinance and save thousands, and the government will pick up the closing costs, but it won't cost anybody because we'll take extra fees from the banks.'

Well sure, the groundhog saw his shadow or something so now well have 9 more months of [impossible] promised goodies from President Obama. Never mind those last, unfulfilled, election promises. Remember how college would be cheaper? How "I won't have to worry about gas or paying my mortgage ever again."? The sea levels receding?

But what if you believed he really could deliver on some of them? What if your situation were such that an Obama reelection really would mean a few extra thousand in your pocket?

Would it be worth it? Wouldn't it just be an offer to ride shotgun in the car Obama's driving off a cliff?

Two Videos

A video about unplugging yourself, ungridding your loins, and stepping out into the stuffiverse. You know, living in the land where you can get bruised and where LOL actually involves respiration. For like, all day every day.

We all spend time unplugged, and I see the attraction of going cold turkey. I don't know if I could abandon the Lumberverse completely though. I'd maybe be interested in a program that shuts down your computer for the day after some allotted number of minutes.

Don't think I didn't notice: this "unplugged" guy shot, edited, and uploaded a digital video to the internet. Presumably he's at least semi-plugged-in again.



And here's a light-hearted (one would assume) video about three tinkerers who like to spend their lazy days causing minor traffic accidents on New York bridges. Extra credit - mute it and play instead: "Danger Zone" by Kenny Loggins. "Too close for missiles, I'm switching to guns."


h/t: wet/dry and lumberbrudi

More to this Woman Than Meets the Eye

Just the fact that Michelle Obama has joined a road construction crew proves that she is not the one-dimensional food-scold that I thought.

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Stephen Hawking Was Involved

I knew it could be done. I knew Michelle could be thinned a bit. I didn't realize I'd have to bend space/time to do it.

Our List of Demands Has Been Delayed Again

Guess who's coming to dinner? from SondraK:

…a new Occupy strategy emerging across the country is to mobilize cross-country marches through mid-size cities where the movement has been absent, and reach out to sympathetic Americans by occupying their homes…

hilarious

h/t: Justin Credible