Utah firing squad death announced on Twitter [BBC]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFv3z7Q6tsI

Today’s Blogger Buzz appears to be Nevada’s Sharron Angle walking out on reporters while her campaign manager calls one an “‘an idiot’ and another term that can’t be repeated.” (Nominations welcome!)

We’re having a hard time getting worked up about that, but then we found another Angle video that we think is much more illuminating.

We understand a bunch of skinny dudes will be kicking around a misinflated ball in a half-hour. Have at it.

Longtime Stinque detainees will recall that once upon a time, before the Not the MSNBC Ad, there was an MSNBC ad. And a purty ad it was, with rotating headlines and a sponsor who actually paid for the privilege of raping your eyeballs.

That’s the part we recall fondly at Stinque World Domination Headquarters and Discount Vuvuzelas: the twenty-dollar check that arrived in the mailbox every month. The MSNBC ad paid per “impression” (each time you visited a page) and not per click. The substitute Google ad isn’t nearly as beermoneylicious, and we only keep it running for the occasional context-dependent amusement.

So what happened to the MSNBC ad? Simply put, one day they told us to fuck off. We were using very naughty language on our site, distressing the advertisers who preferred less competition for their expensive eyeball-raping. We could either tone down the salty talk, or kiss that monthly Jackson goodbye.

We’re not sellouts. At least not for that price.

We’ve kept the ad title long past the gag’s expiration date, simply because we’ve grown quite fond of it. Also, you never know when it might prove handy.

Like, well, now.

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Well, he’s not running around shirtless like some of our hotties, but today’s World Cup Hottie has been selected in anticipation of tomorrow’s U.S.-Slovenia game (6:30 am PDT/9:30 am EDT/??:30 Nabeesco Time).

Proving that you can combine brains with brawn, is the USA’s Jonathan Bornstein. Currently starring for LA’s Chivas USA, he plays defense, yet scored one of the winning goals against Costa Rica that helped the US qualify for the World Cup. Weirdly enough, that goal made him a national hero in Honduras, which qualified for the World Cup for the first time since 1952 as a result of the extra goal against Costa Rica.

He graduated with honors from UCLA in 2004, and yes, he’s a Member of the Tribe. And he blogs.

And he’s easy on the eyes.  He’s not waxed, so he’s not TommCatt’s type. Couple more pics and alt-text after the jump.

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“Bank of America Corp. and other banks are preparing new fees on basic banking services as they try to replace revenue lost to regulatory rules, in a push that is expected to spell an end to free checking accounts for many Americans… ‘Customers will have a choice,’ Bank of America Chief Accounting Officer Neil Cotty told analysts in April, of ‘bringing more relationships to us or paying a maintenance fee.'” [WSJ]

“A Southwest Airlines employee called police after finding human heads in a package set to be transported to a Fort Worth medical research company, the airline said. ‘It wasn’t labeled or packaged properly,’ said Ashley Rogers, a Southwest spokeswoman.” [NBC DFW]