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To soothe Matt’s broken ribs, things parodied on The Venture Bros. * Six Million Dollar Man vs. Sasquatch. * Batman 1968 featuring the most bitter computer since Invader Zim. * The Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew meet… Dracula?? * The amaaaazing Astro Boy! * Top 5 Johnny Quest episodes. * Eww, there was a Doc [...]

* “What a lot of people don’t know is that The Turtles were in lawsuits from 1966 to 1974.” “We trusted everybody. We believed, and we’d sign, anything.” * People Like Us‘ WFMU show Do or DIY is back for summer, yay! DJ Vicky is the bestest DJ in the whole plunderphonic woyld. * Fulmarine [...]

* I keep hearing that E-Verify will solve the illegal immigration issue, but now Salon is saying that it’ll drive undocumented workers into the underground economy, depriving the Treasury of billions in payroll taxes. So I’m out of ideas… * Thanks to identity theft, E-Verify misses 54% of unauthorized workers. So… a coin flip would [...]

Just as my Achilles tendinitis clears up, Matt somehow breaks a rib while replacing a wax ring. Three weeks’ rest, pain killers, and our friend the Internet will soothe the embarrassment of losing a fight with plumbing fixtures. * Portland’s own Fogatron. Is it… multi-track beat boxing? A capella hip hop? * Tennis. Precious, retro [...]

It’s Summer!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! * 8: The Mormon Proposition, a new documentary about the Church of Latter Day Saints’ creepy, doctrinal war against gays. * Girls suck at video games. * Ads we like: Cadbury’s Gorilla Drummer. * Trailer for Suck. I don’t give a damn about vampires or the plot or rock stars– that is Kids [...]

* ‘Just quit Mint.com over their racist, inaccurate anti-immigration editorial. So it’s back to Excel spreadsheets for me, I guess… * Educated worker shortage by 2018… * The End of Men. “With few exceptions, the greater the power of women, the greater the country’s economic success.” * War on drugs is really a war on [...]

I know we’re not supposed to blog about weight loss, but… After three and a half weeks of limiting myself to 2,000 calories a day, my weight has dropped below that icky BMI of 30 that marks the difference between being obese and merely being overweight. Yay! It was this latest injury that triggered it. [...]

* Pics of skeptic god James Randi “overdosing” on homeopathic medication. Do you think he survived?? * Play around with this interactive 2008 county migration map. ‘Explains all the out-of-state plates I’ve been seeing lately. * Google autocomplete suggestions: a quick gauge of national mood. * International Number Ones. Click for more and way bigger [...]

* ‘Hate what big oil’s doing to Nigeria and the Gulf? In addition to cutting down on driving and giving up aluminum, try living with less plastic. * You want to become a locavore and do your own cooking, but you don’t know how. Let a 91-year-old teach you Great Depression Cooking. “My uncle wouldn’t [...]

* An apology for Bloody Sunday, at last… * After being stripped of federal funds and being forced to close, Congress clears ACORN of any wrongdoing. Thank you, Day Late/Dollar Short Man! * Judge wants lawyers to define “choice” in sexual orientation, otherwise Prop 8 might be an ‘attempt to “enforce private morality”.‘ Mormons be [...]