poor miss usa

In last night's Miss Universe pageant, our very own Miss USA, Rachel Smith, had a night to remember. Oh, it's not like she won or anything. She came in 4th runner up, which in itself is really not all that memorable.

But she did fall on her ass in front of the world on live TV, so that was notable. And she was constantly booed throughout the night by the Mexico City crowd, who reports say were voicing their opposition to illegal imigration laws in the US (although I like to think they booed her because she would not shut up about her time in the Oprah leadership camp). So all in all, despite losing, Rachel Smith will be talked about and remembered. At least until tomorrow, at which point we'll immediately forget her.

odd video of the day

Wow. Japanese cartoon land is a wonderous place. I mean any place where confetti rains on you every time you go number two must be pretty awesome, right?



If anyone actually speaks Japanese, can you confirm that the subtitle translations are accurate?

when you need to see baby animals and hot babes

I have a module that was defaulted on the new My Yahoo! homepage I set up that shows me the most emailed photos of the day. And the thing I've noticed over time is that there are only two types of photos that ever appear in here. Cute animals and hot babes. Nothing in between.

I wonder which ones are most emailed by women and which ones are most emailed by men. Hmmm...

See for yourself:
http://news.yahoo.com/photos/gallery/1756

an interesting ad for wendy's

Hey boys and girls, it's David Hasselhoff enjoying a Wendy's hamburger. Looks fun, where can I get one?

(not so) shocking news of the day...

Today's (not so) shocking news item comes from the Christian Science Monitor:

Key US Army Ranks Begin To Thin
By Gordon Lubold, Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor

Thousands more mid-level enlisted soldiers are leaving the Army than in each of the past two years, forcing the service to increase its use of pay-to-stay programs and find other ways to keep GIs in the fold.

This truly is (not so) shocking, isn't it? People leaving the Army in droves? Any it's really hard to incent them to stay?

What reason could they have for leaving? I mean, it's not like we're entrenched in a meaningless war over questionable motives, leaving the country we invaded even more divided and unstable than when we arrived, with the President refusing to create an exit plan simply out of ego and hubris, right? What's that? We ARE entrenched in that exact scenario?

Wow. What a baffling problem for the Army. I really can't think of any reason why they can't get soldiers to stick around. Not a one...