CBS and Viacom said an ad featuring children to make a political statement was over the top. Yet a male entertainer stalking his female prey was not. The president was spared by the media moguls. Not so lucky were America's girls as CBS and Viacom told them it was just fine for boys to sing, "I'm gonna have you naked at the end of this song."

I am hoping to hear bell hooks on the story of the Super Bowl, but until such time I am hearing a lot of sense in Derrick Jackson's words.

The following links (from today’s NYT) are dangerously unstable and might EXPIRE AT ANY MINUTE! Read them NOW!!!

• The 15,000 square-foot garden of swanky One Sutton Place has actually been owned by the City of New York for the last thirteen years. The residents had a secret non-disclosure pact so the City wouldn't find out.
• Taki al-Moosawi was imprisoned in a dungeon for several months by Saddam's regime, and his nephew Mehdi was executed with hand grenades. Still, Dr. Moosawi says, "it is freedom the Americans have given us, but it is not good freedom."
• Yeah, of course Pete Rose gambled on baseball, and of course he bet on the Reds. The real thing is: did he ever bet against the Reds?

originally posted by daiichi

Hello A’s Fans

So I’ve been reading the excellent Word Freak by Stefan Fatsis, and studying two-letter word lists, but still can’t beat Janie at Literati. Meanwhile, in Los Angeles, a basketball coach is losing his job, maybe, under the watchful eye of the Coach Wooden Pyramid of Success, which does not seem to apply to Scrabble, by the way. Also, what the heck, here’s an entertaining metafilter thread that might come in handy for some trivia contest yet to come.

originally posted by xowie

We should all take a nice long look at the Big Game on Sunday in San Diego -- because it may be the last one we'll see for a while, at least until the War ends ... Ho ho. That is a nasty thought, as thoughts go, but it is the melancholy truth. Certainly it will be the last peacetime Super Bowl for another five years, maybe more ... But by then we will all be wearing uniforms, of one kind or another, and only the "Trusted Travelers" among us will be allowed to come and go as we please -- within reasonable military limits, of course, as long as we don't make waves and never gather in groups of more than three, and don't spit.

originally posted by daiichi

A television commercial for a local Toughman contest came on. They were looking for tough men and women to fight three one-minute rounds in nearby Louisiana. "I'm drunk. Sitting around in a room full of guys, who are all tough anyway, because they're all prison guards and I'm the only girl in the group. You know, I've gotta be tough, too. So the commercial comes on, and I feel it's my need to assert my feminine side here, so I say, 'Y'all aren't tough.' I said, 'You want to know tough? Women. Menstrual cramps and childbirth. We're tough. You people aren't shit,'" Mahfood recalls. "They loaded my drunk ass up in the car. Carried me down there. I registered. I woke up the next morning and said, 'Oh, my God. What did I do?'"

originally posted by daiichi

Friends in recent years have thought they detected a glimmer of light amid the darkness of Fischer's tortured psyche. For one thing, he has a girlfriend—Justine, a twenty-two-year-old Chinese-Filipina living in Manila, who couldn't care less about chess and has no intention of writing a tell-all memoir.

originally posted by daiichi

"Why are you starting with that gay stuff?" Lewis asked Rahman. "I'm 100 percent a woman's man. If he has worries about that bring your sister, bring anyone."

originally posted by xowie

Lesbian fans invisible to WNBA, except in Girl Bar.

originally posted by xowie