Chris Locke, in a mailing to his EGR mailing list, describes his discovery of Caldinoro, a dolt who reviews at Amazon, except he (possibly she) is having the last laugh. Take a look at some of the reviews.

I’ll just give you one tidbit, because it appeals to the miscellaneous side of me. Chris points out that Caldinoro has three Amazon ListMania lists:

1. Hamburger-related books
2. Non-hamburger-related books; and

3. More non-hambuger-related books

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Cracked.com has a slightly amusing review of 12 presidential candidates’ Web sites [Tags: politics_humor ]

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Are all Americans becoming superheroes?

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Critt Jarvis has left an audio comment that’s a limerick version of the Dylan Thomas poem.

FWIW, I plan on going into that good night whining.

And while I’m at it, here’s Romeo and Juliet’s balcony scene as a limerick:

Girl, hush! It’s death if we are seen.
You’re so hot. Omigod, like I mean
if Juliet’s an alias
You’re still one fair lass
And you don’t look a day over thirteen.

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Why have we never seen a photo of George W. Bush as president without his shirt on?

In 2005, when Bush interviewed Judge J. Harvie Wikinson III as a possible nominee for the Supreme Court, not only did he ask him how much he exercised, but when the Judge said he ran 3.5 miles a day, Bush urged him to start doing some cross-training. [source]

The Washington Post casually refers to “Bush’s two-hour midday exercise sessions” [source].

He runs a 7 minute mile. At least he did when he became president. [source]

Laura says he exercises at least five days a week. [source]

Bush’s physician explained that Bush fainted while choking on a pretzel because his resting heart rate is 38-49 beats per minute. [source] A normal rate for an adult is 60-100. [source]

So, what is Bush hiding under his shirt (other than a mysterious rectangular piece of equipment)?

We saw President Clinton shirtless.

We saw President Reagan shirtless.

Why haven’t we seen President Bush shirtless?

Could it be because the American public isn’t ready for just how many crunches per day it takes for Bush to exorcise his inner demons?

Come, on W. We demand to see you shirtless! The public has a right to know!

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Whitehouse seeking special counsel to investigate Gonzales

So, it turns out that Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse is one among a group of senators calling for a special counsel.

Also in that group are Sen. Jack AlbertoGonzalesOwnMom, Sen. Ruth TheOneTrueAndVengefulGod, and Sen. Abe ByAllThatsHoly. Sen. Phil ImpeachTheBastards could not be reached for comment.

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The Crow

The crow is a well-shaped bird.
To the east, a fan splays out.
Crescents point west and south.
Beak down, tail up, it inquires
forward, but then flaps north
where it is not pointing.
The crow is a well-shaped bird.
And then it opens its goddamn mouth.

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Jeremy Price passes along a Cat and Girl comic strip he thinks I’ll find amusing. He is correct. (I also like the other one he recommended.)

And to miss the point entirely, although the strip is right in pointing out that early TV shows didn’t show families watching TV, TV’s did figure in some of them in interesting, self-reflexive, possibly postmodern ways: In Burns & Allen in particular, George would go upstairs to watch TV to see what Gracie was up to in the show itself. [Tags: tv cat_and_girl comics ]

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