I like the weird stuff

Placebo is a band that should be much bigger in the US, but alas.

Here's the French version of their song "Protect Me From What I Want" along with a video that's a clip pulled from MirrorMask.

Here's the full-length English version of the song.

Conspiracy theories make me laugh

Whacky conspiracy theory of the week: Governor Mark Sanford, returning from a trip in which he claimed to be doing someone, er, I mean, something exotic, was behind the deaths of Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett, so that coverage of them would take his peccadillo off the front page.

Boom!

And Gov. Mark Sanford returns from his "adventure trip" to Argentina and tells us he's been having an extramarital affair with someone there. And of course, there's all the requisite Christian-speak, which almost ALWAYS comes along with admissions of affairs. (Odd, that. How come admissions of affairs, or hookers, or blow, always seem to make the confessor ten times more religious right there in the press conference?)

Okay. Is there a GOP hopeful for 2012 who has NOT had an affair? Bueller? Bueller?

Mark Sanford

So this morning, after his wife told us he "had to get away from the kids to write something" (on father's day), and his staff told us he was hiking for five days on the Appalachian Trail (on hike naked day), he's telling us he actually went to Argentina on an "adventure trip."

Without telling anyone. Without leaving anyone else in charge of the executive.

The more stories they tell us, the weirder it gets. How long until the words "hookers & blow" start cropping up?

New Rules: There is no liberal party

One of Bill Maher's best New Rules segments ever.

Real Time New Rules June 19, 2009

The geeks have inherited the earth

John Hodgeman at the Radio & TV Correspondents Association dinner.

By the way, the correct answers to the three-part question are: Shai-hulud, thumper, and water of life.

It's been awhile

NASA did something today it hasn't done in a long time: Launch spacecraft to the Moon.

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President Obama murders Jeff Goldblum

President Obama murders Jeff Goldblum! On camera!

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Okay, it's a reference to The Fly remake from the 80s.

Praying for Obama to die

Pastor prays for Obama to die.

Like the guy who killed the security guard in a terrorist attack on the Holocaust Museum, this Christian minister is also a "birther," insisting that Obama doesn't have a valid birth certificate and is not a true citizen.

Why are these people so rabid with hate? What the fuck is wrong with them? Did Mommy not love them enough or something? I just don't get it.

A former Southern Baptist Convention officer who on June 2 called the death of abortion provider George Tiller an answer to prayer said later in the day he is also praying "imprecatory prayer" against President Obama.

Wiley Drake, pastor of First Southern Baptist Church in Buena Park, Calif., and former running mate of American Independent Party presidential candidate Alan Keyes, said June 2 on Fox News Radio he didn't understand why people were upset with his comments quoted by Associated Baptist Press from a webcast of his daily radio talk show.

How NOT to make your case

Constantly being an asshole is NOT the way to make your case.

Notice how Ziegler is instantly hostile and immediately begins the interview with insults, and then complains when his hostility and insults have their desired effect.