Roundup – Walken
Line O’ the Day:
“Know what else butter is good on? Oatmeal. It’s great on oatmeal. And hookers. Hookers and oatmeal.” – Pothead Dads, Reebok Girl, Hookers and Oatmeal: Your Open Mailbag [Big Daddy Drew via Deadspin]
Best of the Best:
- The 15 Stupidest Products of All-Time [Huffington Post]
- The Bandwagon is Actually a Nissan Truck [Deadspin]
- California to Withold Bigger Chunk of Paychecks [LA Times]
- War is a Hate Crime [TruthDig]
The Remains:
- Estimate: Half of U.S. Kids will Get Food Stamps [MSNBC]
- “V” Aims at Obamamania [Chicago Tribune]
- Two Charges Dropped in Vigilante Grocer Case [Globe and Mail]
- Atlanta Named Most Toxic City, Las Vegas Least Toxic [GreenBiz]
- Tapes Show JFK Conflicted over Saigon Coup [MSNBC]
- Couple Wrote to BBC to Tell of Suicide Decision [The Guardian]
- Michigan Man can Sue the Store He Robbed [MSNBC]
- Italian Judge Convicts 23 in CIA Kidnap Case [MSNBC]
- Prosecutors: A Protected Criminal Class [Will Grigg via LRC]
- Clever Fools: Why a High IQ Doesn’t Mean You’re Smart [New Scientist]
- Man Says He was Arrested, Tasered After Saving Family [Recordpub]
- More on Secret Copyright Treaty [BoingBoing]
- Fear of a Blackface Planet: Cowboys Cheerleader, Meet Deron Williams [Deadspin]
- Darren Rovell Technically Sorry: Old Canard about African Runners Lives on [Deadspin]
- Places You Don’t Bring a Baby
- The Hangover Final Bill [Satin Movie]
- Seahawks Release Edgerrin James [Ed Note. Out with a Whimper] [Seattle Times]
- 5 Saddest Pickup Artist-isms [Guyisms]
- Will a Racial Divide Swallow Obama [The Nation]
- Rift in Africa Likely to Create New Ocean [AOL News]
- United Airlines Exploring Viability of Stacking Them Like Cordwood [The Onion]
- Merits of an Economic Slowdown [Tim Price via SeekingAlpha]
- GDP Turns Positive, Sort of [Kurt Brouwer via SeekingAlpha]
- Liberals and Conservatives Agree: Proposed Oversight Bill Makes Things Worse [Washington via SeekingAlpha]
- Too Big to Fail and the Gang That Couldn’t Shoot Straight [Aiki14 via SeekingAlpha]
- Banking Concerns and Chinese University Rankings [Michael Pettis via SeekingAlpha]
- China’s Private Investment is Picking Up [Frank Holmes via SeekingAlpha]
- Liberalization and Wealth Inequality in China [Mike Mezzadri via SeekingAlpha]
