Wednesday funny

New Den

Kelly has a new den. Her humans have joined the ranks of the indebted class.

For KT

Tastes Like Chicken

Courtesy of Dr. Zaius.

Debates WWE style

Happy Earth Day

Hillary for America's Mom

The Hildabeast has been droning on this morning about her being ready at day one - a claim that McCain has just as much a right to - and she mentioned that she was the best pick for the hardest job. I always thought that being a parent is the hardest job. Perhaps Hillary wants to be America's Mom?

Is waterboarding the new firewalking

Motivational Waterboarding, what will they think of next.

No one really disputes that Chad Hudgens was waterboarded outside a Provo office park last May 29, right before lunch, by his boss.

There is also general agreement that Hudgens volunteered for the “team-building exercise,” that he lay on his back with his head downhill, and that co-workers knelt on either side of him, pinning the young sales rep down while their supervisor poured water from a gallon jug over his nose and mouth.

And it’s widely acknowledged that the supervisor, Joshua Christopherson, then told the assembled sales team, whose numbers had been lagging: “You saw how hard Chad fought for air right there. I want you to go back inside and fight that hard to make sales.”

Read the whole tragic story here.

Canid Slander

The other Coast by by Adrian Raeside.

ABC's excuse of a debate

Will Bunch, of the Philadelphia Daily News, wrote a wonderful critique of last night's poor excuse for a debate by ABC in Philadelphia.

It's hard to know where to begin with this, less than an hour after you signed off from your Democratic presidential debate here in my hometown of Philadelphia, a televised train wreck that my friend and colleague Greg Mitchell has already called, quite accurately, "a shameful night for the U.S. media." It's hard because -- like many other Americans -- I am still angry at what I just witnessed, so angry that it's hard to even type accurately because my hands are shaking. Look, I know that "media criticism" -- especially when it's one journalist speaking to another -- tends to be a genteel, collegial thing, but there's no genteel way to say this.

With your performance tonight -- your focus on issues that were at best trivial wastes of valuable airtime and at worst restatements of right-wing falsehoods, punctuated by inane "issue" questions that in no way resembled the real world concerns of American voters -- you disgraced my profession of journalism, and, by association, me and a lot of hard-working colleagues who do still try to ferret out the truth, rather than worry about who can give us the best deal on our capital gains taxes. But it's even worse than that. By so badly botching arguably the most critical debate of such an important election, in a time of both war and economic misery, you disgraced the American voters, and in fact even disgraced democracy itself. Indeed, if I were a citizen of one of those nations where America is seeking to "export democracy," and I had watched the debate, I probably would have said, "no thank you." Because that was no way to promote democracy.

Read the rest here.