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Better than The Reader
Over at The Search, Brett McCracken lists five Holocaust-themed movies he considers (along with at least 10 other non-Holocaust-themed movies from last year) to be better than The Reader, which was recently nominated for a best picture Oscar: Schindler’s List: The granddaddy of all Holocaust films. Steven Spielberg’s passionate, timeless epic is not easy to watch, […]
The rising soccer star who doesn’t exist
Slate.com has a fascinating piece about Masal Bugduv, the teenage soccer phenom from Moldova who doesn’t exist. The article’s sub-title says it all: “Inside the ingenious hoax that fooled the British sports press.”
T-shirts they should’ve sold at the inauguration
Culture 11 has an amusing list of T-shirts they should’ve sold at Barack Obama’s inauguration. My personal favorite: Wasilla High School Football Rules! Just in case that doesn’t jar the memory banks: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7b6Ff9Qm2FU&hl=en&fs=1]
Arizona Cardinals make case for the BCS?
Sport Illustrated’s Stewart Mandel decided to try his hand at a little fiction writing today in a column where he claims the Arizona Cardinals Super Bowl berth makes a great case for the BCS system to stay in place. Because the sport employs a traditional playoff rather than polls and computers, a Cardinals championship will […]
The 20 worst foods
Men’s Health has the 2009 list of calorie-packed foods you should probably think about more than once before eating.
Pray for Obama to fail?
In an article making its rounds on many blogs I read, a prideful clown named Joseph Farah claims to not only know President Obama’s agenda and heart inside out but to also know God’s exact preference for how a country should be governed. Many a coward has been bolstered in his conviction against challenging tyranny […]
Most unlikely Super Bowl team of all time?
In an admittedly snap judgment, SI’s Don Banks writes that the Arizona Cardinals earned the tag “most unlikely Super Bowl team of all time” by punching their ticket with a victory over the sixth-seeded Philadelphia Eagles on Sunday. Given their desultory franchise history, their years of wandering in the proverbial NFL desert, their so-so 9-7 […]
Txting gone wild
A Florida man recently claimed that his 14-year-old daughter’s text messaging hit 35,000 per month twice in 2008. According to an Orlando Sentinel article: Her peak month was June, when she tallied 35,463 messages, or about 1,182 a day. Assuming she slept eight hours a day, that’s about 74 messages an hour, or roughly one […]