It's Super Bowl Weekend! Yes, it's time to watch a nationally televised game where athletes in tight, colorful clothing slap each others' butts, grapple, make passes, try to get into the end zone, and do what it takes to score.
There is nothing homoerotic about this at all.
Yes, it's a time for men to host lavish parties, show off their cooking skills, apply make-up and generally make a lot of noise in celebration.
There is nothing homoerotic about this at all.
During halftime, The Who will play a short concert on the field. If the last four years are any indication, the show will include a lot of fairly blatant phallic imagery. Sexy-clad women will be nowhere near the performance.
There is absolutely, positively, nothing homoerotic about this.
At all.
And now, the ITEMS!
ITEM! Don't ask, don't tell? How about don't go? Justin Raimondo dishes out some cold reality about the DADT fight here.
ITEM! The Pentagon is sponsoring a research project into synthetic organisms, that can "can live forever — or can be killed with the flick of a molecular switch." More here. Nope, nothing creepy or horrifying about that at all, nope.
ITEM! Catch the full 43-minute chat between Bill O'Reilly and Jon Stewart here.
ITEM! What's the future of MySQL -- and anything that runs on MySQL, such as, say, almost every website in the world including DailyKos -- now that Oracle has the go-ahead from the EU to buy Sun Microsystems? Actually, it's not good. Monty Widenius, who founded the MySQL project, lays it out for us here and here. Note to kos and ct: it might be smart to figure out how to switch to Postgres. And yes, that means migrating a lot of CRUD.
MOUSE!
The long hair is a cool gene that one finds in some fancy mice.
ITEM! Why is the stereotype of the "cheese-eating surrender monkey" a load of crap? I mean, aside from the obvious fact that it was manufactured by the right wing to help justify the Iraq war? Cracked lays it out here. (And for a real treat, check out six tiny things that have mind blowing impacts)
ITEM! Feeling down because Harry Reid is a wet noodle? Well this might provide some encouragement: Al Franken crushing Comcast's lobbyists on Thursday:
Someday this guy could be majority leader. And then ... look out.
ITEM! What's the real problem with Avatar? Pete Abrams lays it out for us here!
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