Liberal Talk Radio

Man hugs are finally in vogue in the Pentagon.

When it comes to Faster Legacy, I’m pleased to report that McCain is down:
John McCain told voters this morning he’s only looking four years into the future, when asked if he has the stamina and health to be President for the next eight years.
“If I said that I was running for eight years, I’m not [...]

The most offensive official major league baseball document ever seen:
Players were yelling something a whole lot nastier than “You’re blind, ump!” at baseball games in the 1890s.
And it’s all there in writing, on a withered 1898 document called “Special Instructions to Players” that’s up for bid by a New Jersey auction house.
“In terms [...]

When it’s winter in Finland, what are you going to do to pass the long, cold nights? How about rigging up your dormitory into a 15-story, cell-phone controlled Tetris game?
This makes me weep, it’s so beautiful and pointless:

Jonathan Golob at Slog points out that The Wire is Barack Obama’s favorite TV show, and proceeds to explain why it’s such a great choice for a presidential candidate:
No character is left unblemished. Institutions are at best viewed as noble failures (the Stevedores Union) and more often as a destructive force. Obama’s declaration [...]

Continuing our Shachtman-mania here at BATP, another great article on the Army’s nascent efforts to recruit anthropologists to help understand local culture in Afghanistan and Iraq:
In western Afghanistan, the 4th Brigade of the 82nd Airborne had come under a steady stream of attacks, despite “a very aggressive outreach effort to village elders,” the report notes. [...]

Not as good as 2 Girls 1 Cup “reactions” but close. Darn close.

Michelle Obama will not cross a picket line to appear on ABC’s The View. (I know what you’re thinking — they have writers on The View?)
Meanwhile Hillary Clinton, in the process of running the best Presidential campaign ever, deftly avoided the picket line altogether and sent a note to she show’s token Republican, Elizabeth [...]

Mike Huckabee has been endorsed by Chuck Norris, Ted Nugent, and now, Rick Flair.
That’s quite a list of surrogates. And if you haven’t seen the Chuck Norris Huckabee ad, it’s well worth 60 seconds of your time.

“It’s my job to make sure you don’t grow up stupid. It’s bad for the world.”
- Guidance Counselor Tami Taylor to fullback Tim Riggins on the TV Show Friday Night Lights, in what may be the most succinct argument for activist government ever penned.
(I’m just now working my way through Season 1, but FNL, [...]