Scott Adcox

Kleinheider says Lawler is semi-serious about a run according to the Memphis Flyer.

Any real rasslin’ fan knows that Jerry Lawler isn’t serious about anything until the strap comes down.

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This brings back some memories of staying up late and watching whatever was on one of the three channels available. Dr. Gene Scott used to play the Neutron Dance and show video feed of a fountain and display a phone number.

Best TV preacher ever.

It’s coming once again from that mouthpiece for the Republican Party, Fox News CNN Money–5 key freedoms you LOSE under Obama’s health care:

Freedom to choose what’s in your plan

Freedom to be rewarded for healthy living, or pay your real costs

Freedom to choose high-deductible coverage

Freedom to keep your existing plan

Freedom to choose your doctors

If that’s too much reading for you, George Michael has a little sumpin’ to say about it. Plus there are pretty girls.

I like the skate video feel they achieved by putting every member of the Wu’s name up for their verse.

Feelin’ mad hostile.

When I started reading this, I was sure I’d fall into one of the seven categories presented–click over for the lengthy descriptions. Turns out I’ve been most of them at one time or another.

• People Who Are Too Big for Their Britches
• Snobs Who Look down Their Noses at Everyone
• Cold Fish
• Anyone Who Talks the Talk but Can’t Walk the Walk
• People Who Beat around the Bush
• Morons Talking Out Of The Wrong End
• Long-Winded Gasbags

I could add a few more to that list, but I can’t risk being long-winded to do so.

Flashback to 1933: US ad industry digs Hitler.

The article then goes on to quote Hitler at length talking about something that Americans who worked in advertising at the time already believed: that the masses are morons who respond only to simple messages repeated thousands of times…

You really do see it every day in advertising–a catchy phrase is repeated often and all of a sudden it is part of the vernacular. It becomes an accepted truth of the society.

I certainly hope no politician ever tries to change our political system into one driven by empty slogans.

What will be the end result of resolutions in the various states supporting the 10th Amendment?

While seven states – Tennessee, Idaho, North Dakota, South Dakota, Oklahoma, Alaska and Louisiana – have had both houses of their legislatures pass similar decrees, Alaska Gov. Palin and Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen are currently the only governors to have signed their states’ sovereignty resolutions.

Sarah Palin has now joined Phil Bredesen as one of the most polarizing political figures in the Union </sarcasm>

Seth Godin

Most of your competition spend their days looking forward to those rare moments when everything goes right. Imagine how much leverage you have if you spend your time maximizing those common moments when it doesn’t.

This is just contrarian enought that I can agree with every single word.

Now they’re concerned over the 17th amendment possibility of unfunded health care mandates.

If only someone had thought of a way for the States to have a direct representation in the federal government…now that would have been smart.

Where else are you going to get headlines like this in the newspaper?

Scuffle with son over sandwich meat burns shotgun-packing meth maker

A scuffle over your son with sandwich meat should stand for a head line on its own, but a shotgun-packing meth maker is icing on the cake.

Stay classy East Tennessee. Stay classy.

In honor of MJ, here’s the best use of one of his songs in a song (after the commercial).

The Onion once again crunches complicated intelligence data and breaks it down to a level even I can understand. Slideshows like this one are the only thing Power Point is really good for.

Jigga’s problems have been documented here before, but his latest beef with The Game is seemingly unilateral. It’s the genesis of a very interesting post at ForeignPolicy.com:

The changes in Jay-Z’s approach over the years suggest that he recognizes the realist and liberal logic… but is sorely tempted by the neo-conservative impulse. Back when he was younger, Jay-Z was a merciless, ruthless killer in the “beefs” which define hip hop politics.  He never would have gotten to the top without that.  But since then he’s changed his style and has instead largely chosen to stand above the fray.   As Jay-Z got older and more powerful, the marginal benefits of such battles declined and the costs increased even as the number of would-be rivals escalated.  Just as the U.S. attracts resentment and rhetorical anti-Americanism simply by virtue of being on top, so did Jay-Z attract a disproportionate number of attackers.

See, you can learn something from rap.

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I’m not into watching sports as much as I used to be. Like, hardly at all. But I saw two interesting things about sports today.

First, check out the card for UFC 100–the biggest event in the history of the UFC.

• 265: Brock Lesnar (c) (265) vs. Frank Mir (c) (245)
  UFC Heavyweight Championship Unification
• 170: Georges St-Pierre (c) (170) vs. Thiago Alves (170)
  UFC Welterweight Championship
• 185: Dan Henderson (185) vs. Michael Bisping (186)
• 185: Yoshihiro Akiyama (185) vs. Alan Belcher (186)
• 170: Jon Fitch (170) vs. Paulo Thiago (170)
• 205: Mark Coleman (205) vs. Stephan Bonnar (205)
• 155: Mac Danzig (154) vs. Jim Miller (155)
• 205: Jon Jones (206) vs. Jake O’Brien (206)
• 170: Dong Hyun Kim (171) vs. T.J. Grant (170)
• 185: C.B. Dollaway (186) vs. Tom Lawlor (184)
• 155: Matt Grice (155) vs. Shannon Gugerty (156)

What would you have said 3 or 4 years ago if I told you that the light heavyweight fight at the UFC’s biggest event ever would get 6th billing and would feature Stephan Bonnar as its top name?

The UFC is all about the welterweights right now, huh?

The second cool thing I saw today was in a tweet from @alyssa_milano on 11 things that have happened only once in MLB. I was shocked at how many of these are from the recent past and how many of them I actually remember. But this was my favorite:

During the September 4th, 1908, game between the Tigers and Cleveland Indians, Schaefer was on first and a teammate was on third. The Tigers wanted to do a double steal — Schaefer would break for second, and, when the Indians tried to throw him out, his teammate would steal home. But when Schaefer broke for second, the Indians’ catcher didn’t make the throw, so Schaefer stole the base without the run scoring.

That wasn’t the plan so, on the next pitch, he broke back for first… and successfully stole it without a throw. Then, on the next pitch, he broke for second AGAIN, to try to make the double steal work… but again, the Indians didn’t throw.

That makes him the only player in MLB history to steal the same base twice in one inning. (And one of only two players to ever steal first base from second.)

Sorry, this isn’t a post about True Blood or Twilight.

But Vampire Economy would make a great gift for anyone who is into the horror genre. I mean, this sounds pretty scary, doesn’t it?

The national demand for “stimulus” replaced private decision making entirely, as businessmen were required to produce and avoid any economic downturns that might embarrass the state.

Ironically, this isn’t about 21st century economics in the United States. Yet.