This play is the one we Jets fans will be thinking of today at 4:30 when the division game against the Patriots kicks off – from Week 2:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6ZhoMoNesQ

This run in last week’s game against the Saints is part of what gives Seahawks fans hope for victory against the Bears today at 1 pm.  Pretty amazing run:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQULIUXZst8

Did not know that brainwashed Texas schoolchildren applauded when JFK was killed:

Title: “Sarah Palin Talking Keychain”

Manufacturer: Emanation

Rank: 3 (in Toys & Games > Novelty & Gag Toys > Gag Toys & Practical Jokes)

Blurb: “We eat, therefore we hunt * Pretty relevant important stuff… to me anyway * In what respect, Charlie? * Ya quit makin’ things up * I’ll betcha! Plus five more BONUS phrases.”

Review: “I have to say I am a little disappointed. I expected to get four years of use out of this toy, but it simply quit working altogether after not even two, for no explicable reason.”

Customers Also Bought: “Barack Obama Toilet Tissue Paper”

Footnote: Beware of malfunctions: “While I do like the lifelife feel (plastic) and the realistic voice (screechy), sometimes you don’t even have to push the button for it to spout off.”

Sarah Palin Talking Keychain [Amazon]

Buy or Die [Stinque@Amazon kickback link]

Jim Hoft, The Dimmest Working Blogger in Web Business®:

If White House Was Surprised by Applause at Tucson Pep Rally… Why Did They Ask For It On Jumbotron?

Pam Geller, Stinque’s 2010 Asshole of the Year:

On Thursday, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said that they were surprised by the applause at the memorial pep rally on Wednesday for the victims of the Tucson shootings…

Grotesque.

The Simple Explanation: Closed-captioning for the arena audience.

No, Jim Hoft, The White House Did Not “Ask For” Applause On Jumbotron [Media Matters, via Tom Tomorrow]

It’s one thing downgrading a Disney-licensed planet to space trash. But when you start messing with people’s astrological signs, there will be movie-title references we best not use for another few days.

If you missed the news, your sign slipped a notch, catapulting you into an alternate universe for which life has left you woefully unprepared. Here we’ve spent our mortal existence as a proud, stubborn, grounded, fuck-you Taurus, and now we’re an Aries? You might as well play Watchtower and tell us we’ve always been a Cylon.

Well, you can relax. Turns out it was all just a big misunderstanding.

Or so we’re being told. Honestly, we don’t understand the claim or the counter-claim.

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“What galls me about two-spacers isn’t just their numbers. It’s their certainty that they’re right. Over Thanksgiving dinner last year, I asked people what they considered to be the ‘correct’ number of spaces between sentences. The diners included doctors, computer programmers, and other highly accomplished professionals. Everyone—everyone!—said it was proper to use two spaces.” [Slate]