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Glenn Dickey mentions an idea of which I had not previously been aware was possible:
If the A’s can get a new park built, it opens up an intriguing possibility, that the 49ers could move to the Coliseum when their lease expires after the 2007 season.

Just so long as they remain the San Francisco 49ers, I [...]

A theater in Pennsylvania allowed free entry into Farenheit 911 for card carrying Republicans.
Few Came.
As they say:
A CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll conducted July 8-11 found that only 4 percent of Republicans surveyed had seen the movie, compared with 10 percent of Democrats and independents. What’s more, almost two-thirds of Republicans said they didn’t want to [...]

The AP has a fluff piece on the newly now Kerry-Edwards campaign.
As befits neutralized, contemporary journalism the reporter gathers her requisite opposition quotes. In particular, one Tom Delay throws up his two cents.
He political theorizes:
“There has been a trend over the years that has rejected those liberals that come home and talk conservative,” said House [...]

This guy:
Can I Play?

(via Unfogged)

If anyone required further evidence regarding the inexplicable nature of Japanese culture this is it.
A Japanese budget software company is selling a Japanese Word Processor based off Openoffice for about $18. Compare $18 to the $500 MS Office Japan will set you back.
But how do you market a product providing the same functionality at 9/25th [...]

The DNC blog has a good line:
George W. Bush has a new ad on his campaign website, and there’s good news: it doesn’t feature Hitler.
Out! Out! The soft bigotry of low expectations.

Jesse Taylor at Pandagon runs down how each potential Veep candidate would have been bad for business.
The best:
Dean would have been bad for the economy because he’d force the Fed to hike up interest rates to six percent at knifepoint while eating the sauteed flesh of a dead raccoon off the tusk of an African [...]

From IMDB’s page of trivia on Spider Man 2 comes this info:
Testing with focus groups was done to help determine the film’s title, at one point the titles “Spider-Man: No More”, “Spider-Man 2 Lives” and “Spider-Man: Unmasked”.
I wonder if the guy who dreamt up Spider Man 2 Lives also titled 2 Fast 2 Furious. If [...]

To continue my inexplicable interest in Dick Cheney.
McSweeny’s presents Playlists on Dick Cheney’s iPod. by Ryan Boudinot
First few items:

Classified
Classified Light
Classified Driving Music
Classified Smooth Jazz

…
And it goes on like this.

Others have noted sections of this story by Dana Milibank of the Washington Post, where Vice President Cheney claims collaboration between Saddam’s Iraq and Al Qaeda without corroboration of evidence.
But why stop at lies about The Now if he can also lie about The Back Then.
Cheney says of (presumably) the Clinton era:
“This,” Cheney said, “was [...]