Line O’ the Day:
“Even if you weren’t naming him after a sports team, Brewer is a fucking stupid name. According to the Baby Name Wizard, it belongs squarely in the category of trendy, workman-style names that so many stupid white people are giving their children these days: Porter, Cooper, Ranger, Banker, Magic-User, Taxidermist, and so on. And why Brewer Wynn? The Brewers don’t win. If anything, the child should be named Brewer Sheetdebed Jones, or something like that. If your hubby likes the Brewers so much, and you don’t want the kid to grow up getting pinned down in the schoolyard and drooled on, you should name the kid Paul. Or name him Prince and feed him nothing but scrapple and corn dog batter. Don’t name him Brewer. He’ll end up playing lacrosse and fisting passed out sorority girls. Just last week, I found out a friend of a friend of a friend of a friend named their son Hedges. Fucvking Hedges. And the kid doesn’t even have a brother named Benson. It’s an epidemic of dipshit white person baby names. Kwinsee Pittsnogle weeps for the future.” – Big Daddy Drew, The Mailbag Demands You Name the Brewer Baby [Deadspin]
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- Tribes Buy Back America-Acres at a Time [MSNBC]
- New Peril in War Zones: Sex Abuse by Fellow GIs [MSNBC]
- Why is the NY Times Running a Ridiculous Conflicted Op-Ed Against Google? [TechDirt]
- Kim Peek, Inspiration for Rain Man, Dies at 58 [NY Times]
- Marijuana-Reeking Tour Bus, Red Ferrari are FDIC’s Crisis Booty [Bloomberg]
- Is there a Constituency for Liberty in the U.S. Media? [William Anderson via LRC]
Get in Line:
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- The 72-Dolphins Win the Weekend [Deadspin]
- Tom Cable Did “Exceptional” Job Coaching Terrible Quarterbacks [Deadspin]
- At a Junction: Mike Leach and the Fading Autonomy of the Coach [Deadspin]
- The Year in Rick Reilly [Deadspin]
- Donkey Escapes from Living Nativity Scene [MSNBC]
- The Transparent Cabal [Taki’s Mag]
- Poll: Obama Still Very Popular Among African-Americans but “Thrill is Gone” [CNN]
- Cop Went Wild with Taser, Diabetic Says [Courthouse News]
- After the Bailouts, Washington’s the Boss [WSJ]
- Where’s the Remotest Place on Earth? [The New Scientist]
- Absolute Worst Movies of the 2000s [Premiere]
- Berkley High May Cut Out Science Labs [East Bay Express]
- 10 Laziest Movies in Recent Memory [Premiere]
- Cramer’s BDV Folly: Don’t Base Investments on Yield Alone [David Templeton via Seeking Alpha]
- Bloomberg Financial Conditions Index Returns to Positive Territory [Mark Perry via Seeking Alpha]
- FDIC Blows it on Transparency [Gary Greenberg via Seeking Alpha]
- The Forthcoming Prime Mortgage Meltdown [Seth Chalnick via Seeking Alpha]
- Inflation More Likely in Germany, China than U.S., U.K. [Individual Global Investor via Seeking Alpha]
- Bank Failures Get No Holiday [Richard Suttmeier via Seeking Alpha]
- FDIC Salvage Operation Doesn’t Hide Number of Failed Banks [Jeff Nielson via Seeking Alpha]
- Why Interest Rates will Rise in 2010 [Daryl Montgomery via Seeking Alpha]
- Collusion Against Our Youth [Walter Williams]
- Fed up with Karzai? Try Zadari [Eric Margolis via LRC]
- Police Officer Uses Gun to Break Up Mass Snow-ball Fight [The Telegraph]
- Obama’s Next Trillion Spent Might be Worth It [Bloomberg]
- World War Pope Sainthood like Obama’s Nobel [Bloomberg]
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