Foreground, l. to r.; some dumbass, Michael Phelps
-USA! USA!...-
After taking five golds (so far) in the Beijing Olympics, US swimmer Michael Phelps has become the winningest Olympian in history. Phelp's Olympic career from 2004 to date has now earned him 11 gold medals. In your face American track star Carl Lewis, American swimmer Mark Spitz, Soviet gymnast Larysa Latynina, and Finnish runner Paavo Nurmi!
If Phelps can take 9 gold medals this year, he'll also beat Spitz's record of 8 for a single Olympiad.
Holy freakin' crap, that'd be awesome... (ABC)
-Headline of the day-
"Flying dog poo art causes museum chaos in Switzerland."
Seems to me you'd sort of expect it to. According to the report, "A giant inflatable dog turd by American artist Paul McCarthy blew away from an exhibition in the garden of a Swiss museum, bringing down a power line and breaking a greenhouse window before it landed again, the museum said Monday."
The inflatable pet waste, titled "Complex Shit," is described as "the size of a house." The wind carried the piece about 200 meters before it came down "in the grounds of a children's home," where it broke a window.
No word on whether the piece would be put back on display, but I'm kind of guessing no. (AFP)
-Lying or clueless-
John McCain played Norman Vincent Peale on NPR's Morning Edition this week by suggesting that he was running a positive campaign.
"We’re not sending any negative message in our campaign," said McCain. "We’re drawing differences in positions between myself and Senator Obama, which are significant. He wants to raise taxes; I want to keep them low. He doesn’t want to drill offshore or have nuclear power; I want both. I’ve never heard Steve Schmidt say we need a negative message in the campaign... I’ve run many, many campaigns and I have never believed that we need a strong negative message."
Undercutting McCain's relentless, sunny positivity is McCain's actual ad campaign -- which is 99% about how badly Obama blows -- along with constant backside polisher Joe Lieberman.
Tuesday, Joementum -- appearing with McCain in Pennsylvania -- told assembled Republicans that this election was a choice "between one candidate, John McCain, who has always put the country first, worked across party lines to get things done, and one candidate who has not."
I'm sure Holy Joe meant that in a good, positive way... (ABC)
