Phriday Philler

Start it off with this article from Rolling Stone about how Rudy Giuliani is a total and complete douchebag. America's Mayor my ass. Probably the best (and scariest) part of the whole piece is this graf:

Yes, Rudy is smarter than Bush. But his political strength -- and he knows it -- comes from America's unrelenting passion for never bothering to take that extra step to figure shit out. If you think you know it all already, Rudy agrees with you. And if anyone tries to tell you differently, they're probably traitors, and Rudy, well, he'll keep an eye on 'em for you. Just like Bush, Rudy appeals to the couch-bound bully in all of us, and part of the allure of his campaign is the promise to put the Pentagon and the power of the White House at that bully's disposal.

In the category of news you haven't heard and probably don't care about: It's come out that Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., is who put a secret hold on the OPEN Government Act (oh sweet, delicious irony, tastes like baby tears).



Switching gears, all you NUKE peeps may remember a dude named Matt Ufford (As as pledge I was forced to drink in the Kave by him and Phil Flies) -- well he's gone on to become a successful paid blogger. And there was some sort of controversy involving a barely legal pole vaulter that has made him into some sort of Internet celebrity -- Of course getting quoted in the Washington Post doesn't necessarily make him the next German kid who freaks out or Little Superstar.

Continuing with the theme of people I know, here's a plug for my sister's travel blog. She tells a story about hitch-hiking in New Zealand that is pretty entertaining.

Finally, that sound you just heard was the Intermetas imploding in on themselves as LOLCATS somehow joined forces with "Jump the Shark."

Can't talk, dead now.