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Saturday Afternoon Links: Butler Edition
Saturday, April 3rd, 2010- So the rumors were true. Are you ready America?
- Points for honesty, I guess.
- I’m 100 percent behind this idea.
- Ah, the old “buttered popcorn in the Range Rover” trick. Pretty gutsy for a ballboy.
- The good news is that Maricopa County Attorney Andy Thomas has resigned. The bad news is, it’s so he can run for Arizona attorney general. And this is while he’s under federal investigation. Maybe he’ll sue the feds for racketeering, too.
- So you are rooting for Butler, right? I mean, their home stadium is where they filmed the championship game in Hoosiers. And how can you not like a coach who quit his job marketing pharmaceuticals to take a volunteer position on the coaching staff (and took a job at Applebees to pay the rent), then worked his way up to lead a small school into the Final Four? There’s so much to like about this team. It’s like all three of the other teams are Duke.
Back when I used to work on the game broadcasts, we once filled the production van with balloons – watching someone open the door and them flying out was quite a sight, heh heh heh….
I had hot dogs wrapped in bacon today for lunch. My wife used to make them when our kids were little, although she added cheese. There was a story here or somewhere about street vendors not being allowed to serve them anymore and that made me want to try them again. I think my sense of taste has changed over the years because these seemed to taste like tubes of fat wrapped in strips of fat all dipped in salt.
Dave, that’s why you need the cheese.
That sandwich doesn’t seem at all bad, when you compare it to other fast food fare.
But really, since people are able to make good choices for themselves without being forced in any way, KFC will probably go out of business anyway along with the rest of the fast food industry. Market forces and all, you know.
I mean, fast food places are down to what? 2 or 3 per medium sized city? This just looks like a last desperate cry for attention by KFC.
Completely off topic, but on Radley’s beat:
Newsweek has an item up about junk forensic science:
http://www.newsweek.com/id/235726
No reference to Radley, however.
GO MOUNTAINEERS!!!!
Regarding the comment on Mayor Calvo running for County Executive, while it is a nice thought, it isn’t something that would ever be viable. I’m not going to go into the details of it but having spent my childhood in PG County and even now living just over the county line from it, I can say with certainty that the racial and political history of that place will never allow a white Republican in the top executive position. It has absolutely nothing to do with the (in)competence of Jackson and everything to do with the fact that Prince George’s County is the wealthiest majority black county in the United States, a fact its residents are very conscious of when they go to vote for their leadership. The place has a long history of racial strife.
The irony is that Jackson’s history suggests he is intent on continuing precisely the sort of law enforcement policies that antagonize racial minorities more than anyone else. Calvo is mayor of a relatively exceptional part of the county, a small, racially diverse but generally whiter than the county average municipality that borders on College Park where the flagship university sits. He was able to win an election in a town that has a large student presence and is demographically much more reflective of what PG County was, not what it currently is. It’s simply a very different place from the county as a whole.
Oh and also, FUCK DUKE! :)
That vid of Phil Hare is astonishing.
No really.
OT, but relevant to the site, from that land of freedom known as New Jersey:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_drug_charges_dropped
Go Spartans!
Re KFC Story:
Nothing new. It’s called chcked cordon bleu at fancy restaurants (ok that one has ham inside instead of bacon). And at KFC it probably costs a fraction of what some nanny stater that complains about it pays at a fancy french cuisine restaurant.
Okay, for people like the ballboy above, I’d like to provide the following handy pranking guideline. Please try to fit your victim’s reaction into one of the following:
(While laughing) “Oh, man, it’s gonna be hard to get you back for that one!”
Excellent prank
“Dammit! How long did it take you to do this? You’re gonna help me clean it up, right?”
Good prank
“Ugh, crap…what a mess. Who the hell did this?”
Prank
“It’s…ruined! This is going to cost a fortune.”
Vandalism
That was supposed to be “chicken cordon bleu” in my post.
OTOH, I think I might enjoy “chcked cordon bleu”
Go bulldogs! I park outside hinkle whenever I have class :)
Chris A:
For a moment there, I thought you wrote “I park outside to tinkle whenever I have class.”
And when you don’t have class?
In the best of all worlds, it would have been Xavier and Butler in different regions, so they could face off for the championship.
I’m a die-hard Razorbacks fan, so I know what it’s like to root for the underdog year after year, especially in a conference like the SEC.
Gooooooo Butler!
Mike Munger teaches at Duke. Therefore the whole state of Indiana could disappear and I wouldn’t care.
re: “Points for Honesty”
Tar, Feathers, Oath-Abrogating-Politician. Some assembly required.
Good harmless practical joke:
Get a Brother P-Touch label maker and make a label for each and every part of a car — interior, exterior, under the hood, in the trunk, etc. Then affix the label to the appropriate part of the car. Grab a video camera and watch the befuddled expression of your victim!
K-Mart is an absolute maniac. That ballboy is lucky to be alive.
Prelude to a calorie tax.
You should not underestimate the good people (which is to say, the white people) of Arizona’s desire to be protected from bad people (which is to say, non-white people).
I would love to see Butler win it all but I just can’t make myself believe. Duke is a team most everybody loves to hate but they have one hell of a basketball team.
I will be happy to pull for Butler but I wouldn’t take them and 15 points. It could get quite ugly.
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