Fine? Why Fine?

La Booma Goesa de Dynamita

(Via Eat the Press.) Despite four years of Italian, I have no idea exactly what's going on with this guy but it's still funny.

Too Much Dick

One of the major contributing factors for the blog silence here over the weekend was that I was fully engrossed in Ace's "Dick Cheney" contest. If you didn't follow it, here are the winners.

Alt-History

Jeff is right, his post is really funny.

Bikes for Bush

(Via Normblog.) The Guardian praises President Bush!

We have already heard from Sir Christopher Meyer's memoirs, DC Confidential, that intellectually Bush is not the lunk we took him for. But now we discover he's a kick-ass cyclist too. And that's a thoroughly dispiriting thought: not only does the most rightwing American president since, well, Ronald Reagan, clearly love cycling as much as I do, but he's a real bikie, not some loafing nodder. We always knew Bush spent an inordinate amount of time home on the range, but we just thought he was a bit workshy and easily bored with ruling the free world. It turns out he's been honing himself as a two-wheeled athlete.

But they just couldn't pass up a chance to make a Chimp joke.

The only compensation is that, according to AP, Bush barks when he's pedalling hard uphill, giving out a low growl with every stroke - "Hrrr, hrrr, hrrr"; a sort of simian male version of the Sharapova grunt. At least, if I went for a ride with the president, I could tease him about that. Not that I'd see him for dust, of course.

Something's Funny in Jesusland

(Via TigerHawk.) W popped off possibly the best line of his presidency today. 

European suspicions about George W were briefly confirmed then pleasantly confounded when the president of the European Commission, Jose Manuel Barroso, visited Washington.

When president met president the discussion somehow turned to suits, and how nice George's W's attire was. Po-faced, he said, "God told me to wear it". Adding after a couple of beats: "That's a joke."

Hubtard

This has got to be a Top 5 All-Time Overheard in New York.

Sure About That?

I don't think this headline reads the way the BBC thinks it does.

French crack baby-smuggling ring

Line of the Day

Right here:

Trust the Manolo, if you wear this and no one tries to stop you, you have no friends.

UPDATE

A bunch of runner-ups (or is it runners-up?) here.

Frank

I don't know how to get a permalink for this but go here then go to the "Sports" tab and check out the Frank Caliendo appearance on "The Best Damn Sports Show." At about the 1:40 mark, Caliendo does James Brown (FoxSports' James Brown not The Godfather of Soul), it's scary perfect and at 4:00 he nails Jim Rome. Those two bits make the 6 minutes worth watching.

Family

Ha!