Yokels

What a retard!

And I thought Joe Millionaire was bad. In Europe they have a show where a bunch of guys compete for the attention of a woman named Miriam. The twist at the end? She's a dude.

The contestants are suing.

Sounds good. I've definitely seen your posts, and I have posted in the past at SpoFi as Conquistador...

Are you interested in contributing to the BSB? I've read and liked your stuff at SpoFi a lot...Seeing as we haven't been getting the job done in terms of the B's, it would be good to add a hockey junky to our staff...Most of us all like baseball and football, I'm a hoops guy but we don't really have a hockey guy at the site. And of course, you could post on any other Boston sports related topic as well...basically, I occasionally edit posts for grammar and clarity, but otherwise you'd have free reign. And no profanity, please...

Let me know if you're interested and I'll set you up...

Peter

I'm thinking about becoming the 8th contributor at the Boston Sports Blog. I emailed them a while ago, telling them their Bruins coverage sucks, and I've been going back and forth with the editor for a while now. Hey, it's another thing to do while I'm unemployed.

Your Foreign Policy Priorities:

Primary: Cooperation
Secondary: Diplomacy, Human Rights, Global Markets

Apparently I'm some sort of foreign policy wuss. Take the quick quiz at American Choices (found on MeFi).

I just picked up Leetch in Spofi fantasy hockey. I can't believe no one else grabbed him. I guess no one knew he's only 10-15 days from coming back. Hope he makes it back soon.

Also, the new guy for the Rangers is hurt already. Haw haw haw haw haw.

Fucking sweet!

The Bird tells me I shouldn't worry so much about last night's Rangers game. He lets me know that the team played hard and suffered from some unfortunate bounces. You know, the same old story.

By God I think he's wrong. That game was exactly the reason to be worried. It was a mirror of the last six frustrating years. Yes, the Ducks wonder-goalie played well, but like every other game in this half-decade, just when you thought the Rangers had something going... a good shift, a good shot or a nice cycle, the opponents raced down and scored. It doesn't matter if it was a whiffer, a wobbler, a floater or a post-ringer, it went between the pipes and the Rangers efforts didn't. Goddamn it.

Buccigross is back. Someone email him.

Unfortunate advertising there.

Three year old chinese kid tears it up on the xylophone. Or it may be a muppet, I'm not really sure.
(quicktime)

Edit: My bad. It's a North Korean kid. Probably tortured when she hits a bad note or something.

Pretty funny Bud Light commercial.

Jesus Lantern

Here's a surprisingly articulate journal by Providence Bruins meathead Doug Doull. Doug fought the Isle's Eric Cairn to a draw in the preseason. Weird how these fighters make for the most entertaining writers. The link is to his take on being a Canadian in New England after the Sox loss, and it's pretty entertaining. Links to previous entries are at the bottom of the page. I got a little choked up after reading the Dan Snyder one. That's just great writing.

These are some of the worst prospect rankings I've ever seen. The Bruins, for example, have three rookies on the roster (Patrice Bergeron - leading all rookies in points, Milan Jurcina - who admittedly hasn't played yet, and Sergei Zinovjev - just called up from providence after adjusting to the North American game and will likely play with fellow Russian Samsonov) who aren't even mentioned. And Andy Hilbert, who they listed as the team's top prospect, won't play more than 4 games with the big club this year unless the team is absolutely decimated by injuries.

I imagine they were incorrect about other teams, too. And don't even get me started on the hideous formatting.

I just gave my two weeks notice. Motherfucker that felt good! And no, I did it in a very professional way, letter and all. I'm nervous, but cautiously optimistic.

I'm definitely leaving half a bologna sandwich under a filing cabinet before I go though.

This is way too easy so I am not even going to comment.

Lindros is hurt already. Ha ha.

"Pork chop sandwiches!"

Holy fuck! This is seriously some of the funniest shit I've ever seen. Sometimes they take a while to load, but you have to check out these re-edited JI Joe trailers. Start with the second from the bottom.

Not safe at work, due to language.

It's not supposed to be hilarious, but it is. Be sure to click on the Baby Jesus with the sound on.

I really shouldn't have to tell you guys this, but don't eat slugs. Seriously.

Hockey Heaven.

"Back in Boston, workers had already painted the World Series logo on the grass at Fenway Park. Fans were lining up outside to buy Series tickets, confident that nine decades of Red Sox futility was coming to an end."

That was stupid.

They found a frog that was thought to be long-extinct in India. It's purple.

''He was just hitting a dummy. They said he'll be all right." Ha-Ha.

Dead horse special! The Navy is going to chill with the sonar thing in order to stop killing so many whales.

Bonus CNN Headline: Monkeys use mind to move objects. You'd think this would be the coolest article ever written, but it's really kind of a letdown.

"That was lobster pot. That was medicine, and I want it back." Provincetown's Lobster Man gets a summons for marijuana possession, and intends to go to court dressed as a lobster. Good for you, Lobster Man! I'm sure the judge is totally going to dig that.

Just an FYI - P.J. Stock is being sent down to Providence, and has to clear waivers. I'll be very sad if he's picked up by another team.

No link post: How's the early-season fantasy hockey going for you slobs? Oh how I miss fantasy hockey. I should have played.

PS: Mike, why can you still not post? We need to remedy the situaiton.

It took them until the very end of the article on best NHL video-game performers to get it right, but they did.

It's stolen straight from Hockeybird, but ti's too good to pass up --- Glen Sather on the Rangers: "What do you want me to tell you, that I'm going to shoot them?" Sather said.

It would certainly be a start.

The latest from John Buccigross starts off as funny as ever.

"(4 year old) Jack had a pretty good day on ice in his game-worn Darren Pang Chicago Blackhawks sweater."

It doesn't stay so light-hearted for long, but it's still a very nice piece of writing.

Just heard about this guy on the TV. He has the best nickname I've heard of in a long time.

This sounds like the worst hotel ever.

Inside hockey has a lot of unique content.

Chopsticks label:

Welcome to Chinese Restaurant. Please try your Nice Chinese Food with Chopsticks. The traditional and typical of glorious chinese history and culture.

Arnold Kling, some dweeby dude from TechCentralStation, has a (for me) spot-on letter to Paul Krugman about what constitutes a reasonable argument. It nails one of the reasons I have such a strong distaste for Krugman and why I'm typically mum about my political inclinations with people outside my core friends. These type of M arguments that Kling lays out have been going on for long enough now that they have become "common wisdom". Conservatives hate the environment, they hate blacks, they hate the poor, they want to "get rid of the Head Start program" and so on. That's frustrating because it's not true, and it's nearly impossible to break. It's lost at the start based on incorrect assumptions.

The frustration doesn't end there for me with Krugman however. I think he's worse than Kling suggests. I think his motives are far from pure. I'm not sure why, but I just can't get over the fact that Krugman... a professional economist, teaching at one of the most premiere schools in the country can honestly talk about the 'huge, wasted surplus' and not have other purposes in mind. He quotes off the ten-year projection numbers like they were fact and guranteed. He does this without note and nothing to point out that such projections have never been right. He ignores evidence of a slowdown as far back as fourth quarter 1999 (first layoffs at DoubleClick, mind you) and shoves it all at the foot of the "tax breaks for the rich" and GWB.

Now, I have no idea if the tax cuts were a good idea. I know that it's been tried in a similar spot not long ago and it didn't work out so well. But I also know that not enough did I hear a quality explanation of the counter-point, instead all I heard from that side is that GWB was giving breaks to his friends. And if you're Paul Krugman, you should be much, much, much better than that. It could sway my opinion if clearly illustrated, but when it's done with M methods, I swing the other way.

And who knows? Maybe they did do something.

Damn sonar is killing whales, causing them to get the bends. Also, this article gets points for using the word "disorientate", which I was sure was made-up.

Game on: Red Sox vs. Yankees --- Bruins vs. Devils. Who wants beer?

This is just too damn sad. A sad way to start the NHL season. Sad for Heatley... how do you deal with being responsible for a friend's death? Sad for a promising franchise. And tragically sad for Snyder and family, his life cut way too short.

22. I fell in love this summer. Her name is TiVo. I love the sound when you first turn TiVo on. And I love the sound it makes when you delete a program. And I LOVE the drum sound it makes when you scroll down too far on the now playing list. I love my TiVo.

Buccigross is back

Hockeybird.

"In what may be my favorite article of the day, the Star Ledger discusses Purinton's new role as a player representative. This is a shrewed move on the player association's part if you ask me. Would you like to negotiate with Dale? Other Ranger representatives include Matthew Barnaby, Greg de Vries, Martin Rucinsky, and Ronald Petrovicky. Replace de Vries and Rucinsky with Simon and Scott and you've got the world's most intimidating representatives. Can you feel the love?"

Those friendly Saudi officials. This really has to make you wonder... especially the seizure part. What the fuck?!?

A must read about hogging. Click on the printable version and read it on your commute.

Quentin Tarantino: Rip-off artist or genius? Or both?