"Hockey final: Stanley Cup Game 7 on steroids"

That might be a bit much, McClatchy, but what the hell, it is truly awesome hockey.

12:15 p.m. Go, Ryan Miller.

Update: Congratulations, Canada. Great game, U.S. And Sid the Kid - Canada already has the Mounties and the maple leaf. They don't need another freaking icon.

Flash Tsunami Model for Chile Earthquake

Goes out 24 hours. Looks like Alaska may get hit hard. Look out, Chignik. (Maybe not.) Rough time for arrival: 6:30 p.m. PST.

He Murdered a Veteran

Joseph Stack killed a U.S. military veteran, Vernon Hunter, and there is virtual silence on the issue. And the guy who flew a plane loaded with extra fuel into a building, killing a government employee and veteran, is for some reason not a "terrorist."

Two Words: Ryan Miller

That would be the goalie of the best team in the National Hockey League (official standings notwithstanding), the Buffalo Sabres, who stopped 42 shots in an outstanding performance yesterday as the US hockey team beat the powerhouse Canadians 5-3. Just awesome.

Bonus: From the first link, Alyssa's Milano's twit.

Photography: Marlon Kowalski

On the Web.

"I'm living in Freiburg, Southern Germany.
Anyway, this city is ailing in cultural terms."

GOP Senator Says He Understands Rapist's Frustration

Might as well have:

Senator Scott Brown of Massachusetts is clearly not an overly bright individual, but this is just mind-boggling. Asked about the guy who flew his plane into a federal building yesterday, he says this:

I don't know if it's related but I can just sense not only in my election, but since being here in Washington, people are frustrated. They want transparency. They want their elected officials to be accountable and open and talk about the things affecting their daily lives. So I am not sure if there is a connection, I certainly hope not, but we need to do things better.People are frustrated. They want transparency, they want their elected officials to be accountable and open and talk about the things that are affecting their daily lives.

He just expressed solidarity with the guy. In fact he seems to TRY to make him into a Tea Partier. Unbelievable. He added that "Nobody likes paying taxes." Wrong, Scott. Grownups who enjoy being citizens of a great country and all the benefits that go along with it actually do like paying taxes. I'm proud to pay taxes. Only selfish immature dolts who live on anti-tax slop fed to them by people like Rush Limbaugh don't. Time to grow up.

Update: Yet another teabagger happily - and I mean happily - links the attacker to the teabagger cause.

GOP Rep Introduces "Holocaust/Zyklon B Remembrance Day"

Might as well have.

Oregon Rep: "Pointing Out My Plagiarism Is a Political Ploy!"

What a dope.

And way to go, Blue Oregon. This is exactly right:

But Wingard's plagiarism betrays the truth: He doesn't work very hard, he's not very intelligent, and he has no credibility.

And he doesn't know a thing about Climate Change. That's why he had to steal someone else's (ill-informed) thoughts on it.

Boys Can Be Convicted of Torture

Boys aged 10 and 11. Adults, who ordered that torture become official U.S. policy, torture that in several known cases led to death, apparently can't.

Extra: Section 2340A.

This Just In: Dan Quayle Still Stupid

Take it away, dumbass:

"They're gonna go to budget reconciliation, which I believe would set a very bad precedent, because essentially -- if they could do it, and I don't know if they can do it, but if they could do it -- what you have done, effectively, is to take away the filibuster in the United States Senate," Quayle said. "So, therefore, you have 51 votes in the House and 51 votes in the Senate. That is not what our Founding Fathers had in mind. That is not the constitutional process."

Forget the "51 votes in the House" - that's just a slip. (I hope.) But " 51 votes in the Senate. That is not what our Founding Fathers had in mind"? Are you kidding me? Here's a passage from the United States Constitution, Article 1, Section 3:

The Vice President of the United States shall be President of the Senate, but shall have no Vote, unless they be equally divided.

If the Founders gave the Vice President the power to break ties in the Senate, they gave the Senate the power to pass legislation with 51 votes. That's exactly what they had in mind. You dick.

"My State Room Is Dry - So the Titanic Can't Be Sinking!"...

...said the countess.

Rachel Maddow on Modern Republican Hypocrisy

Worth every second. (Transcript here. Relevant part starts around two-thirds of the way down the page, after "COMMERCIAL BREAK.")

An Amphibious Bus

Holy crap I want one of these:

The £700,000 Dutch-made vehicle can carry up to 45 passengers. The vehicle runs like a normal coach on the road but when in water uses a hull to float and is powered by twin jets.

There's video of the bus driving into and across a river a Glasgow, Scotland, at the link. Too cool.

U.S. Military Bases Must Carry the Morning-After Pill

Wingnut heads ASPLODE:

WASHINGTON – The Pentagon for the first time will require military bases worldwide to offer emergency contraception or the so-called morning-after pill, a military spokeswoman said Thursday.

Remember, what we're talking about here: this is contraception medication. It prevents conception. It prevents any spermy/eggy funny business. When the powers that be behind anti-abortion groups, which universally opposed making the morning after pill legal, say they just want to stop abortion, or they just want to stop late-term abortion, they are lying. It is only a first step. They want to make contraception medication illegal, too. What they want is power over women.

* "The powers that be behind" added.

2-Year-Old Craps Pants, Says "WAAAH!"

Yep.

P.S. There's a Sarah Palin magazine on newsstands. An entire magazine devoted to one person. And that person is Sarah Palin. I am not making that up.

Loudon Wainwright: New Paint

If you're not familiar with the old Loud'O - and you really should be - this is a really nice song/story to be introduced with. And, uh, watch out: at about 3 minutes 30 seconds in somebody really close to the camera coughs. Scared the crap out of me.

At the station you can meet her
With that smile you couldn't cheat her
A woman that kind is hard to find
It's good to take a girl
In the not so very good world
And walk in the park until it gets dark
Sometimes I feel ugly and old
Excuse me baby if I'm acting bold
My head gets hot but my feet aren't cold
Excuse me if you will

Take a breather on a bench
Helps to build up the suspense
Then the two of you go to a movie show
If she's woman there's a chance
That she maybe likes to dance
So you go to the hall and you out step em all
Don't make a hullabaloo I'm not the hoipaloi
I'm try any trick and I'll pull any ploy
I'm a used up twentieth century boy
Excuse me if you will

She takes you home to meet the folks
Laughing at the fathers jokes
Shall we watch TV, it's all right with me
Time to go you're going to miss her
In the doorway try to kiss her
Oh it tastes so good, like you hoped it would
If I was 16 again I'd give my eyetooth
I'm tired and I'm hungry and I'm looking for my youth
I'm a little uncool and I'm a little uncouth
Oh excuse me yes excuse me if you will

At the station you can meet her
With that smile you couldn't cheat her
A woman that kind is hard to find

Oh Dang: J.D. Salinger Has Died

R.I.P.

NYT obit here.

Photo.

The Samuel L. Jackson State of the Union Address

Go. Read. Laugh. Fall over. Die.

"Hey Jersey Shore - sit the f*ck down!"

Super Spy/Journalist Ordered to Live With Mommy and Daddy

Funnier and funnier.

And, uh, wow:

James O'Keefe and his crew of intruders did not intend to tap Mary Landrieu’s phones, but rather disrupt service and gauge the office’s response to being cut off from constituents, a law enforcement official tells MSNBC.

Remember, these doofuses are charged with "entering federal property under false pretenses for the purpose of committing a felony," which carries a punishment of up to ten years in prison. If disabling a phone in a Senator's office is a felony, these guys may be in more trouble than I thought.

John Aloysius Farrell on Obama and Alito

In the U.S. News and World Report:

The Court deserved the smackdown it got from the President of the United States last night, and Justice Sam Alito's rude protest--this year's Joe Wilson outburst--was just further proof of what a bunch of political hacks the justices have become.