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Twitter is useful for something I guess. Not much, but something. Pictures from New York, for instance. Crazy pictures. Crazy pictures from New York.

In other, completely non–crazy–pictures–from–New–York Twitter news, Alli wrote something hilarious on Twitter, but I can’t link to it because she protected her updates (I think). Just let me tell you, HILARIOUS. Truly.

Sorta summed up my feelings about my once torrid posting schedule.

Seriously, I want to know.

I’ve been Twittering for a while, it just seems like the effort I make there would go better elsewhere. Like…anywhere else. Seems kinda data–silo–y to me.

Seems like everybody’s using it, thus decoolifying the platform. What is it that you, my countless legion of followers think? Is Twitter still cool?

Up to date local weather information. Expect to see about 800 new weather–related blogs in the next couple of minutes. Also expect this page to get some lovin‘.

Coming soon to a DARE program near you!

As you may or may not know, I heart blonde Italian ladies. No — really.

So any time I get the chance to post said…people…I do so, happily. And if said video with said person also includes a bunch of youthful street performers juggling and unicycling and dancing, how can I resist?

And did I mention the blonde Italian lady?

The song doesn’t make any sense to me (even with the translation), but who cares? It ain’t like that stopped me from posting something before.

hey guys(..),girls(..)come here(..),run here(..),
let’s go to dance pizzica
right on with guitars, right on with drums and let’s go all together to dance
When outside it is raining with the sun,
it is said that foxes get married
And when the rainbow arrives we dance pizzica pizzica poo
The sun is back, guys come here
The sun is back, guys run here
Let’s go to dance pizzica
With guitars
With drums
Let’s sing, let’s dance
Old men have to dance with old women
Young men with young woman
They have to give each other so many kisses dancing pizzica pizzica poo
The sun is back, guys come here
The sun is back, guys run here
Let’s go to dance pizzica
With guitars
With drums
Let’s sing, let’s dance

Translation of lyrics for us non–Italian speakers provided by Claudia Abbene.*

*No, I am not her, and no I do not know her.

You knew this was going to happen eventually. It’s like Godwin’s Law.

Godwin’s Law with Spongebob Squarepants.

Since I’m not feeling bloggy today, feel free to discus amongst yourselves.

• The Olympics (my take: boring)
• Russia is at war with Georgia
• The John Edwards affair now acknowledged by the media
• President Bush says to drill, price of oil plummets
• Political stunt becomes movement, Republicans stay in D.C

If anybody needs me, I’ll be watching NFL preseason football.

Ever wondered what made the internet so popular? I mean, besides naked pictures of people. The answer is memes.

A meme is just an element of internet culture passed through imitation. Since people have so much free time (or, you know, are supposed to be working on those reports), creation and recreation of funny things takes precedence. The blogosphere is built on memes (most of which I hate).

Thankfully, somebody at Dipity decided to explain where all that nonsense about the cats and the pictures and the misspelled words came from. And an exploding whale. And that song about the Chronicles of Narnia from Saturday Night Live.

This is not going to make anybody more productive.

Click through to see what we wasted our time on instead of the reports (that were due in, like, 30 minutes ago).

At least we don’t have to worry about ManBearPig.

Right?

Right?

Right?

Huh?

Nothing at all like goatse. Nothing.

Sad.

And by sad, I mean Packers management.

Say, didn’t the Red Sox make a famous trade once?

…“Under Bush.” So says Hillary ‘Mrs. Bill Clinton’ Clinton?!?:

There appears to be no crisis, tragedy or disaster immune from exploitation under the Bush administration.

So unlike 1993–2000. And that’s just while the Clintons were in the White House. Their shady dealings go way beyond just Mrs. Bill’s time in the White House.

Two points I wanted to make here: first, that this piece is like the kettle is calling the pot a kettle. Second, that who exactly is always exploiting these things? Let’s go down the list, shall we?

In the past few years, the number of corporations flocking to places like the Cayman Islands to evade U.S. taxes has exploded.

Like, say, China? You know, China. The formerly not–on–the–most–favored–nation–list–before–Mr.–Bill–put–them–on China.

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but American businesses are in the business of making themselves money, not paying taxes.

In the weeks after Hurricane Katrina, for example, FEMA…

Did what they did on Bill Clinton’s watch.

Only faster.

While touting fiscal responsibility, President Bush and his administration have lined the pockets of political cronies like Halliburton and Blackwater. While calling for earmark reform, the president has allowed no-bid and questionable contracting throughout the federal government to dwarf earmark spending by a 10-to-1 ratio.

Quick, everybody, name a company that’s American owned that builds ports.

GO!

Alright, let’s check our answers. The correct answer to the question is…Haliburton. That would be the list. Hard to contract something to another company when another company doesn’t exist.

And earmarks? Are you kidding? Are you aware that the Democrats in Congress control spending? That’s the thing that galls me the most.

There’s more there to chide, but it doesn’t really matter. In calling for changes in the way government does business, she’s basically saying that the government (which has proven to be clumsy and inefficient) is the savior to our problems. To that, this quote from another famous American politician:

Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.

President Ronald Reagan

If you haven’t figured it out yet, I loves the YouTube. But the YouTube can seriously take hours of your life away. Hours better spent, like, curing cancer or something.

In showing my disgust for my misspent afternoon(s), I shall bring you, my most loyal readers (both of you), what I did instead of being productive.

The family had lived in the rundown rental house for almost three years when someone first saw a child's face in the window.

A little girl, pale, with dark eyes, lifted a dirty blanket above the broken glass and peered out, one neighbor remembered.

Everyone knew a woman lived in the house with her boyfriend and two adult sons. But they had never seen a child there, had never noticed anyone playing in the overgrown yard.

The girl looked young, 5 or 6, and thin. Too thin. Her cheeks seemed sunken; her eyes were lost.

If you can get through the story of Danielle without tears, you are a robot.

Mike Allen at The Politico announces that the DNC is launching their own oil–based publicity stunt (complete with bumper stickers! Whoot!).

Yeah, thanks. While the Republicans are at least trying to get something done, the Democrats offer bumper stickers. Thanks. Really. I mean it.

RNC spokesman Alex Conant agrees:

The $2.8 billion that Obama gave the oil companies in the '05 energy bill would have bought a lot of tire gauges.

Indeed.

A lot more robust that Obama’s plan. Which is, to say, is a plan.

Did I just say that Paris Hilton did something better than Obama? Yes. Yes, I did.

ADDED: Via me at Wizbang

• Ben Stein is not amused (and yes, he's seen the tape!)
• Althouse thinks it's a pro-McCain ad
• Instapundit has a poll asking for support of Obama, McCain, and Paris Hilton. With somewhat predictable results

And by “know” I mean “search on Google for about 5 minutes”.

You know you don’t need to turn on the television, ever again, when you get stuff like this sent to you. Behold, the tale of Kacey Montoya: CBS 2 Morning Anchor.

Okay, so I sort of have a history of stuff like this, but I figure that this deserves special attention. The reason being, there, oh king of the MCPs*? Because Kacey Montoya, unlike the legion of blondes from the FOX News Mansion, works for CBS.

How she got away is a mystery. Did Roger Ailes buy CBS?

Anyways, here’s the best song ever written, from Kacey herself.

Hmm…good looks and the ability to upload to YouTube. Seems like time for me to work on my wedding proposal.

*Male Chauvinist Pig. You just don’t hear that much, anymore.

If it’s Aircraft Brand™, it has to be good!™

Is that supposed to get rid of smelly aircraft, or just aircraft that have low odor?

This widget shows data from perspctv, and they describe the site as [a]n exploration of internet activity in reference to mainstream media. Gain a unique Perspctv on the US Presidential Elections.

I’m always on the lookout for nifty gadgets to put on display (because some people just love sidebar goodies). Poll results are notoriously hard to define, but that doesn’t stop people from trying. Stat junkies like me get our addiction fix with stuff like this.

And on a totally unrelated note: how did I get through this many days without bashing Obama?

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I am so not in denial.

I am so not in denial.

I am so not in denial.