Facebook Doppleganger

I hated to see Conan O'Brien go. I was one of the first thousand or so to fan the I'm With CoCo page on Facebook, and one of the first to make that image my own. However, I just can't turn down a cool gag. And so when the opportunity arose to "borrow" Conan's old "Love Child" Machine (where his intrepid staff was able to put together the pictures of a possible Hollywood couple to show what their horrendously deformed offspring would look like).

I've always been curious as to what would happen if Brad Pitt carried somebody else's baby (I know, finally, right?). But because I'm not normal, I've been wondering what it'd be like for him to have Napoleon Dynamite's baby - just for the sheer cross between total smooth and complete dweebishness.

I put these two images in the LCM:

and I came up with this studly stud. Hmmm... Looks oddly familiar....

Roar!

Weekly Links We Like to Link to: Mostly politics and/or dummies edition

The Lonely Life of Rollie Burris: The Cartoon.

Mel Gibson's latest movie is going to be a spectacular mix of a biopic and more of his trademark redemptive violence.



Intriguing article about Newt Gingrich at New York Times Magazine reveals this tidbit from one of his disciples, minority whip Eric Cantor (R, Va.):

Well, generally, [Gingrich] is very quick to see the historic election of President Obama and the potential for his support to last, and what that means for Congress, and how we compare the success of Barack Obama to, frankly, the difficulties that Speaker Pelosi and Leader Reid are having with the American public right now. You know, Congressional Democrats are nowhere near where this president is right now in terms of public opinion.

(On a personal note, I think that's an interesting wedge issue. I may not agree with Newt's ideas, but I think that the Republican party needs to stand up and intelligently challenge the Democrats in power. Otherwise, you face the prospect of a one (weak-arse) party system, as if the Democrats weren't inept enough as it were, they would become inept and fascist.)

And, speaking of the Times and the Republican/Democrat divide, here's an informative article about the sea-change represented in ideals that has come as a result of the new budget. The money passage:

Over the last three decades, the pretax incomes of the wealthiest households have risen far more than they have for other households, while the tax rates for top earners have fallen more than they have for others, according to the Congressional Budget Office.

As a result, the average post-tax income of the top 1 percent of households has jumped by roughly $1 million since 1979, adjusted for inflation, to $1.4 million. Pay for most families has risen only slightly faster than inflation.

Before becoming Mr. Obama’s top economic adviser, Lawrence H. Summers liked to tell a hypothetical story to distill the trend. The increase in inequality, Mr. Summers would say, meant that each family in the bottom 80 percent of the income distribution was effectively sending a $10,000 check, every year, to the top 1 percent of earners.

And here's an argument for spading and neutering dumb, dumb parents.

... And that's the rest of the story.

Weekend Links We Like to Link to - 4

Oops. National Grammar Day (i still don't know how to spell grammar. Bad English teacher I is.) has passed and I failed to mention that there momente-ous ocassion. Worry not, dear sailors. Their's still time for yous. Hopefully, you won't be to effected to do something about it.

h/t to Relevant

Also, courtesy of Relevant:

"Cyberspace can be very useful for [Buddhist] monks," Ladda said. "But it's wrong to use it to pick up girls."

So true, so true...

And to round up the trifecta of links courtesy of Relevant:
Has it gotten this bad? Streetposts padded to protect inattentive, texting pedestrians.

A scary case where autism in one child is linked to her vaccinations.

And now for something a bit more political:

1. Hillary's surge is like the surge in Iraq: costly, bloody, won't win the war.
2. Is Clinton supported by the Archie Bunkers? Says one Chicagoan (who probably didn't vote for Harold Washington either), "If Obama gets in, it's going to be a black thing and it's going to be all blacks for blacks,'' said Victoria Mikulski, a 63-year-old clerk in Edison Park. "Everything's got to be equal.'' (I think I'd stick with the Meathead vote, if that's the case.)
3. And, just in case you didn't know: Republicans may echo attacks on Obama made by Clinton (Duh!).

Those were the days!