Friday, August 1, 2008

Get off my plane!

OK, so they finally caught war criminal Radovan Karadzic, and he is sad, claiming he can't get a fair trial because of media bias. The fact that him and Mladic have been on the run for so long, likely right where they were committing their genocide just absolutely drives me nuts.

Remember at the start of Airforce One where an elite team of US Commandos went into Somethingstan and pulled the dictator out of his bed and dragged him off to jail? If the US government wants to act unilaterally to do cowboy stunts, hauling these guys off would have been a lot easier in 1996. I personally would have no problem and have performed similar missions numerous times in video games, and they were pretty easy.

Pun Headlines = Epitome of Journalism


The folks over at Best Week Ever made a great list of pun headlines by combining random occupations and crimes. Apparently they were inspired by such classic NY Post headlines as the one pictured here.

Ludacris : Barack Obama :: Snoop Dogg : ... Les Miles?

OK, so he didn't rap about the LSU football coach or his team's 2007 national championship, but he did show up at Miles' Rotary Club meeting to "just ... give his love and support to Miles." That's kind of awesome.

[Yes, I know the photo shows Snoop in his usual USC gear, but he reportedly wore a Tigers jersey for the meeting.]

On a somewhat related note, last weekend I saw "Training Day" for the first time, and the scene in which Snoop, playing a wheelchair-bound crack dealer, gets the shit kicked out of him by Denzel Washington has become one of my all-time favorite scenes.