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Fox News Calls Michelle Obama “Obama’s Baby Mama”

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in Barack, Media, Partisan Hacks, Video, WTF?

That’s right. They actually did this. In fact, here’s the video…

Two things…
First, there are various definitions of “Baby Mama”, but they all basically boil down to a single, unmarried mom. Urban Dictionary has the definition as “the mother of your child(ren), whom you did not marry and with whom you are not currently involved.” So [...]

June 12th, 2008 | Permalink| 7 Comments »

Clinton Cites Potential For Assassination As Reason To Stay In???

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in 2008 Election, Bad Decisions, Barack, Democrats, Hillary, WTF?

WTF?!?!?!
Hillary Clinton today brought up the assassination of Sen. Robert Kennedy while defending her decision to stay in the race against Barack Obama.
“My husband did not wrap up the nomination in 1992 until he won the California primary somewhere in the middle of June, right? We all remember Bobby Kennedy was assassinated in June in [...]

May 23rd, 2008 | Permalink| 26 Comments »

Tough Guy Auditions

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in Comedy, Kitchen Sink, Video, WTF?

I don’t think any of them got the part…

So what do you think about that Dramatic Chipmunk?

And scene…

May 11th, 2008 | Permalink| 1 Comment »

Hillary Camp Tries To Change Total Delegates Needed

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in 2008 Election, Barack, Democrats, Hillary, Pledged Delegates, Super Delegates!!!, WTF?

This is amazing. They’ve literally changed the total needed to win. So anybody who comes to her “Delegate Hub” website will think that 2,208 is what Obama has to get, not 2,025.
Here’s a screenshot, with the delegate part highlighted…

Again, there’s NO mention of the race to reach 2,025 delegates. Why? Because they know they’ve already [...]

May 6th, 2008 | Permalink| 6 Comments »

Plastic Surgeon Publishes Pro-Surgery Children’s Book

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in Age, Bad Decisions, Books, Discuss, Health Care, Media, Science, WTF?

To be fair, I haven’t read My Beautiful Mommy, but still…that title is pretty bad.
If this is just a book about the idea that “mommy” is going to have some work done and how to explain it to a kid, that’s one thing. But if it’s more of a story about “transformation” from normal [...]

April 22nd, 2008 | Permalink| 6 Comments »

The Scariest Lamp In The History Of The World?

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in WTF?

The ebay listing describes it as: ABSOLUTELY STUNNING ERECT FOX WITH LAMP+WALKING STICK
My question: Who sat down and said, “Well, I have this fox…and I need a lamp…”
Bid on it here, but only if you live in the UK.

April 13th, 2008 | Permalink| 4 Comments »

The Subprime Mortgage Mess, In A Nutshell

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in Comedy, Economy, History, Money, Subprime, WTF?, Wall Street

Big thanks to Jimmy for this.

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The text may be hard to read, so I’d suggest just going full screen with it. It’s very easy to read at that size.

March 26th, 2008 | Permalink| 1 Comment »

Wall Street To Write Down $460 Billion In Losses

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in Economy, Money, WTF?

Yeah, sure, deregulation works great…
From Bloomberg:
March 25 (Bloomberg) — Wall Street banks, brokerages and hedge funds may report $460 billion in credit losses from the collapse of the subprime mortgage market, or almost four times the amount already disclosed, according to Goldman Sachs Group Inc. Profits will continue to wane, other analysts said.
“There is [...]

March 25th, 2008 | Permalink| 10 Comments »

Video: “Big Dog” Quadruped Robot Is Amazing

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in Military, Robots, Technology, Video, WTF?

Seriously, just watch…

From the ice to that jump at the end, this is pretty incredible stuff.
I know one thing, I would want that thing running at me. Yikes!

March 17th, 2008 | Permalink| 2 Comments »

Woman Spends 2 Years Sitting On The Toilet

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in The World, WTF?

This one was too weird to pass up.
From KansasCity.com:
WICHITA | A 35-year-old woman who apparently spent two years in her boyfriend’s bathroom in Ness City had become stuck to the toilet seat, authorities said Wednesday.
“She was not glued. She was not tied. She was just physically stuck by her body. It is hard to imagine. [...]

March 12th, 2008 | Permalink| 4 Comments »