And Now For A Brief Moment Of Levity...

Coincidently, if you sleep alone you sleep with Bin Laden. Call me ladies.

More Clothes or Less?

The FBI offered a $5,000 reward Tuesday for help tracking down whoever mailed
dozens of threatening letters -- including some containing a potentially harmful
insecticide -- complaining about TV coverage of college cheerleaders.

The letters were sent to national networks and their local affiliates,
as well as people in states throughout the West and Midwest, according to the
FBI office in Portland. Recipients also included people associated with
university athletic departments in Ohio, Michigan and Arizona.

Cheerleaders Are Sapping The Vital Essences Of This Nation (EDSBS)

You Know, You Could Just Call The Complaint Line (Signal to Noise)

Gimme an F! Gimme a B! Gimme an I! (Sports Illustrated)

Snead-TV Pick 'O The Week

Buying The War

Four years ago on May 1, President Bush landed on the aircraft carrier USS Lincoln wearing a flight suit and delivered a speech in front of a giant "Mission Accomplished" banner. He was hailed by media stars as a "breathtaking" example of presidential leadership in toppling Saddam Hussein.

Despite profound questions over the failure to locate weapons of mass destruction and the increasing violence in Baghdad, many in the press confirmed the White House's claim that the war was won. MSNBC's Chris Matthews declared, "We're all neo-cons now;" NPR's Bob Edwards said, "The war in Iraq is essentially over;" and Fortune magazine's Jeff Birnbaum said, "It is amazing how thorough the victory in Iraq really was in the broadest context."

"Buying the War" examines the press coverage in the lead-up to the war as evidence of a paradigm shift in the role of journalists in democracy and asks, four years after the invasion, what's changed? "More and more the media become, I think, common carriers of administration statements and critics of the administration," says THE WASHINGTON POST's Walter Pincus. "We've sort of given up being independent on our own."

Pro 'Cocks

Nice homage to Professional Gamecocks.



While I'm on the subject, the NFL Draft should be moved to Friday and declared a national holiday. Good luck to #4 this weekend. Hopefully the move is worth missing out our national championship run in '07. That's all.

p.s. Yard 'Cocks are looking to sweep the Cleminals tonight. Go 'Cocks!

Just Because

Happy Tuesday.



Go Gamecocks.

Bad Day in Beaufort

Smoke rises over the treetops after a Navy Blue Angel solo pilot flying an F-18 crashed during an air show at Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort in Beaufort, S.C., Saturday, April 21, 2007.

Blue Angel crashes; pilot killed; eyewitness reports home caught fire (Beaufort Gazette)

HateAid!

All they are saying, is give hate a chance...

'Cock Riders...Horse 'Cocks...

Maybe Jockey 'Cocks is the most family-friendly version... either way, CONGRATULATIONS!

USC Equestrian Wins Second National Championship

The South Carolina Equestrian took home its second national championship in three years as they competed at Baylor University at the Varsity Equestrian National Championships. The Hunt Seat team won their third consecutive national championship, while the Western team earned the co-reserve championship title.

Pearls Before Breakfast

No one knew it, but the fiddler standing against a bare wall outside the Metro in an indoor arcade at the top of the escalators was one of the finest classical musicians in the world, playing some of the most elegant music ever written on one of the most valuable violins ever made. His performance was arranged by The Washington Post as an experiment in context, perception and priorities -- as well as an unblinking assessment of public taste: In a banal setting at an inconvenient time, would beauty transcend?

Can one of the nation's great musicians cut through the fog of a D.C. rush hour? Let's find out. Washington Post

Tracking the Swamp Fox

More than 225 years after Francis Marion hid in the swampy reaches of the
South Carolina Lowcountry and bedeviled British troops, the locations of the
Swamp Fox’s hideaways remain a mystery.

Legends and myths abound, linking every piece of high ground near a
river or swamp to the Revolutionary War icon. But in the past year, experts
hired by an organization planning a Marion-focused tourism trail have been
looking for definitive proof.

Archaeologists track elusive Swamp Fox (The State)

Catching up with some friends

Doing Walterboro Proud

Paul Carden of Walterboro, South Carolina, uses floss and an arrow to extract his daughter's loose tooth.

Easter Eggs!

The 2007 Easter Egg Collection continues the tradition that began in 1994 where each state sends a decorated egg to the White House for display. Artists from across the United States created the decorated eggs, which represent each state and the District of Columbia. Each year the artists vote amongst themselves to select the artist to create the following year's commemorative egg which is presented to the President and First Lady. The collection is coordinated by the American Egg Board. White House photos by Lynden Steele.

Hopefully your state did better than mine...

http://www.whitehouse.gov/easter/2007/eggsbystate/

Those poor, poor lemons

Birth of a Retrosexual

retrosexual (ret.roh.SEK.shoo.ul) n. A man with an undeveloped aesthetic sense who spends as little time and money as possible on his appearance and lifestyle.

The Code:

• A Retrosexual, no matter what the women insists, PAYS FOR THE GODDAMN DATE.
• A Retrosexual opens doors for a lady. Even for the ones that fit that term only because they are female.
• A Retrosexual DEALS with shit. Be it a flat tire, break-in into your home, or a natural disaster, you FUCKING DEAL WITH IT.
• A Retrosexual not only eats red meat, he often kills it himself. A Retrosexual doesn't worry about living to be 90.
• It's not how long you live, but how well. If you're 90 years old and still smoking cigars and drinking, I salute you.
• A Retrosexual does not use more hair or skin products than a woman. Women have several supermarket aisles of stuff. Retrosexuals need an endcap (possibly 2 endcaps if you include shaving goods.)
• A Retrosexual does not dress in clothes from Hot Topic when he's 30 years old.
• A Retrosexual should know how to properly kill stuff (or people) if need be. This falls under the "dealing with shit" portion of The Code.
• A Retrosexual watches no TV show with "Queer" in the title.
• A Retrosexual does not let neighbors fuck up rooms in his house on national TV.
• A Retrosexual will have at least one outfit in his wardrobe designed to conceal himself from prey.
• A Retrosexual knows how to use a basic set of tools. If you can't hammer a damn nail, or drill a straight hole, practice in secret until you can or be rightfully ridiculed for the wuss you be.
• A Retrosexual man owns an adequate variety of tools to accomplish whatever his next task might be. He has command over all he owns and can readily describe his next likely tool purchase. A rolling toolbox of at least his own height is a manly minimum.
• Retrosexuals build and fix stuff. If you can't change a light switch, install a ceiling fan, fix a broken toilet or build a tree house, learn how.
• Retrosexual man understands sports. Not all sports but all essential sports. Who gives a shit about jai alai or women’s badminton or even the esoteric aspects of cricket and don’t get me started on that crap called rhythmic gymnastics. He can explain the strategies of the 2 minute drill, why pitch count should affect pitch location or why fuel stop timing can affect winning. He is at least marginally capable of playing virtually any sport or game that involves the use of a ball.
• A Retrosexual is allowed to seek professional help for major mental stress such as drug/alcohol addiction, death of your entire family in a freak woodchipper accident, favorite sports team being moved to a different city etc. You are NOT allowed to see a shrink because Daddy didn't pay you enough attention. Daddy was busy DEALING WITH SHIT. When you fucked up, he DEALT with you.

"Fags eat feces? That's a fact, hun."

Pretty amazing inside look at Westboro Baptist. What really amazes me is no one has attacked these assholes.

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Hopefully these stay on YouTube for a while. Here's the main source links:
BBC Two
The Most Hated Family in America: BBC News interview with Louis Theroux
Hate group targeted by lawmakers

Words of the Dead

What emerges from the following pages is the sense that the fallen are
better men, and women. "We are really fine so long as we have each other over
here," Ballard wrote home, and he meant it. Nations go to war over ideas and
politics, but minds can change and politics may shift. By their very nature,
matters of state are fluid and inconstant. What is constant in war is the
humanity of the warrior, and the pain of those left behind, who reach for hands
they can no longer touch and listen for voices they can no longer hear, except
in the words you are about to read.

Newsweek: The War In the Words of the Dead