Could be the best school mascot ever
-Headline of the day-
"Morons Think Pope Appears In Fire." With photo fun:
As a photographer, I can tell you that this is a fairly long exposure -- meaning the fire was never actually shaped like that anyway, even for the brief moment of time the shutter was open. On the plus side, this is the first time in recent memory that a religious figure hasn't miraculously appeared in something humiliating -- like a stain in an underpass or on a grilled cheese sandwich. John Paul II seems to have a better press agent than the Virgin Mary. He's getting much better venues. (Evangelical Right)
-Rush Limbaugh admits he's scum-
The bad news is that he's proud of it. Earlier this week, the bloated drug addict relayed a heartwarming little story on his show:
But there was a cover story on me coming out of one of the big news magazines, and it was going to totally mischaracterize me and what I do and how I do it. And we found out who was writing it and made a couple phone calls to the person writing it. And we said, "You know what? We're going to find out where your kids go to school. We're going to find out who you knocked up in high school. We're going to find out what drugs you used. We're going to find out where you go to drink and do -- we're gonna find out how you paid for your house. We're going to do -- and we're going to do exact -- and we're going to say that, you know what? You are no different than Al Goldstein. You both masturbate..."
Rush says this "changed the tone of the story by about 60 percent." So, if you're about to be exposed as the horse's ass everyone knows you are, threaten a reporter's kids and blackmail him. It's the uber-moral, Republican, family-values way. (Media Matters)
-No one ever considers marketing-
An item in my local paper tells us that possible names for an elementary school are being taken by the Madison School District. Among the names submitted by the public are a few obvious choices -- Thurgood Marshall, Ronald Reagan (in Madison, no freakin' way), Gaylord Nelson (former governor and the man behind Earth Day), etc. Bo-ring...
Why should you care?
Because I have the perfect name. Not only does it say exactly what a school does, but it may trick people into thinking kids went to a prestigious private school. The name?
Professor Smarty's House O'Learnin'.
You can steal that for your district, if you want. (The Capital Times)
