Another super group?

Dave Grohl and Josh Homme must have the life. Their lives are like one big jam session.




I just found out today that the two of them teamed up with John Paul Jones to form Them Crooked Vultures and they already have a decent number of songs written and will be touring this year all around the globe (mostly the U.K). From what I can get off of youtube they sound pretty decent.

I still get a thrill out of seeing Grohl behind the drum kit. If he could bring that energy over to his frontman duties with Foo Fighters it would make the band at least twice as good.

Anyway, can't wait to hear more from the group, and kudos to the two young pups that they now have the clout to get a guy like Jones to join in. It's kind of funny to read the comments on the youtube page to see someone post, "who's that other guitarist?". Ahhh, the youtube generation at it's finest. I bet if it was Ciara or John Mayer they would have recognized him.

Exhibit B why politics are ridiculous

Ted Kennedy's passing has suddenly shaken up the political landscape in the United States Senate. Where before the Democrats had the 60 senators (58 Dem and 2 Independents) required to avoid filibusters they now only have 59, unless they manage to sway a Republican, which is highly unlikely to happen.

So, in the days leading up to Kennedy's inevitable death, Democrats were pushing to have an interim senator appointed by Governor Deval Patrick. No big deal right?

Wrong.

For the 2004 election, John Kerry, also from Mass., was running for President. Democrats were faced with the prospects of losing a senate seat should he be elected. The governor at the time was Republican Mitt Romney. Back then it was up to the governor to appoint an interim senator and the Democrats changed the law to put the power in the hands of the people with a special election to be held within 5 months of the seat becoming vacant. That took the decision out of the Republicans hands.

So now fast forward and it looks like Democrats are now pushing to put the power back in the hands of the governor. Maybe they are trying to get sympathy from Kennedy's death. I don't know. Whatever the case may be it's garbage self-serving politics. That in itself shouldn't be surprising considering that no politician can become successful without having first sold his or her soul to the devil.

But I can only ask, why does it matter to the Dems that they have their 60 votes? To this point they have showed no indication that they are willing to use some muscle to get their way. So far the Obama administration has been an essay on how to appease the minority party at each and every turn. So why bother? They've already shown they have no spine by caving on the single payer health care, which could be the set piece of the whole administration when all is told. Would reclaiming vote # 60 help them regrow their cajones? I doubt it. Maybe they saw the gleam in Mitch "I wear a catheter at all times just in case i get an opportunity to filibuster" McConnell's eyes when he found out that the Democrats were soon to lose their protection. That dude can talk.

Nothing gets support like scaring the elderly

Way too much politics in this blog lately, but what are you going to do. Just read this article this morning which I believe is a perfect illustration of how the GOP has little interest in actually getting reform done on the health care industry. A Bill of Rights for the elderly? Really?? Straw men get used all the time in politics as it is discussed by pundits with an audience and numbnuts like myself without one. When our politicians as a body use them they really are pushing the boundaries of their credibility. To propose something that really is not needed, especially when, in the past, they were pushing for the very same actions that they are now condemning is politics at its worst.

Does it bother the RNC when they see their own poll numbers dropping even lower than the numbers for Obama? It seems like they are basically t aking the stance that if they aren't going to succeed in governing, then neither can the Democrats. I believe in the military it's called a "scorched earth policy" and it's most fitting here as well as I can only describe the Republicans attitude towards Democrats right now as open warfare. I would like nothing more for these two sides to get along. But I highly doubt that I will ever see that in my lifetime.

Even more shit you probably already knew...

Back in 2003 Fox fought for their right that it isn't illegal to lie about the news.

Repeat after me:

Fair and balanced

Fair and balanced

Fair and balanced

Should I be sharing this???

Yes I should. Because it's my fucking blog.

Fantasy baseball. Either you dig it or you don't. I happen to dig it. I put together the perfect draft strategy this year. I had all my positions tiered and all that jazz and I came in to the draft full of piss and vinegar. It went a little something like this.


1. (4) Miguel Cabrera 1B,3B - success!
2. (25) Prince Fielder 1B - success!
3. (32) Chase Utley 2B - success!
4. (53) Magglio Ordóñez OF - fail...
5. (60) John Lackey SP - traded for Reyes - fail...
6. (81) James Shields SP - traded for Reyes - fail...
7. (88) Joakim Soria RP - success!
8. (109) Matt Wieters C - traded... for somebody - success!
9. (116) Pablo Sandoval C,1B,3B - success!
10. (137) Adam Wainwright SP - success!
11. (144) Ricky Nolasco SP - first couple months fail... - since then success!
12. (165) Kevin Slowey SP - DL'd fail...
13. (172) Heath Bell RP - success!
14. (193) Ryan Theriot SS - traded for Reyes - fail...
15. (200) Chad Qualls RP - traded for somebody - success!
16. (221) Rick Ankiel OF - fail...
17. (228) Shin-Soo Choo OF - sleeper success!
18. (249) Cameron Maybin OF - fail...
19. (256) Hiroki Kuroda SP - success!
20. (277) Travis Snider OF - fail...
21. (284) Kenshin Kawakami SP - eh...!
22. (305) Skip Schumaker 2B,OF - success! but didn't need him

Sleepers, studs, and cheap closers were all part of the strategy. Then, with the idea that I didn't really like Lackey or Shields, and that I didn't really like Theriot, I pulled a preseason trade.

Mar 24 9:12pm

José ReyesDL (NYM - SS)
Denard Span (Min - OF)

Mar 24 9:12pm

Ryan Theriot (ChC - SS)
John Lackey (LAA - SP)
James Shields (TB - SP)

An infield of Fielder, Utley, Cabrera, and Reyes?? That's sick! Well, Reyes ended up being lost for the year and Theriot has hit a career number of home runs... whatever.

Also, most of my pitchers started the year playing like shit and my one OF i trusted, Ordonez, suspiciously lost all power around the time that players are starting to get scared off of PEDs. I cried about everything on the message board and was going to quit, much to my fiance's delight.

Then I decided I was going to get back in the game. I traded off excess talent and picked up new talent off the wire and traded those guys as well. Long story short, in Week 10 I was last out of 14 teams. Then, 10 weeks later, I'm half a game out of first... having gone 9-1, with every one of those wins being an ass whippin.

My return to glory goes a little something like this:

1 Smell the Glove Win 10 - 4
2 The Four Train Loss 6 - 8
3 Serenity Now Loss 3 - 13
4 Communist Kickboxers Loss 3 - 12
5 ChroniclesOf Reddick Loss 2 - 14
6 bases loaded Win 10 - 4
7 The Chinese Bandits Loss 7 - 8
8 Bars Of Clay Tie 6 - 6
9 Bulletproof Tigers Loss 5 - 10
10 0 Loss 5 - 10
11 Clemens Cell Mates Win 12 - 3
12 Spanish Pantalones Win 12 - 3
13 Happy Hour Heroes Win 14 - 1
14 Smell the Glove Win 11 - 4
15 The Four Train Loss 4 - 9
16 Serenity Now Win 8 - 7
17 Communist Kickboxers Win 13 - 3
18 ChroniclesOf Reddick Win 14 - 1
19 bases loaded Win 11 - 5
20 The Chinese Bandits Win 15 - 1
21 Bars Of Clay
22 Bulletproof Tigers

My team is currently pissing excellence scoring a dominating 114-37-9 since week 10. Woo!

Somewhere out there, Don Warren is proud

...and on to an athlete I love.

Chris Cooley is the shit.

It's taken a while for me to find new Redskins to really be down with since the choir boys Art Monk



and Darrell Green.





For a while it was Lavar Arrington



who had no idea what the play was at any given time, he just wanted to hit somebody.

Then there was Sean Taylor



I could watch his highlights all day. But a life full of bad decisions finally caught up with him just as he was starting to turn things around.

But now there is Chris Cooley





What's not to like about this guy? He's extremely accessible to the media and the public. He loves fantasy sports. He's a great ballplayer. He has wacky hair. He shows his junk to the world "accidentally".



The dude's awesome. Plain and simple. I don't have anything substantive to say about him right now. I just feel a little mancrush coming on and watching the Redskins-Steelers preseason game down in Virgina with good buddies Matt and Casey have me catching the football fever.



One final note, this is how Cooley is advertising some reality show he is getting in to with his wife (former 'Skins cheerleader fired due to Cooley love):

This guy almost makes me want to like Sid the Kid

I have to admit it. Ovechkin is sick to watch on the ice. He plays with an enthusiasm and flair that is extremely rare in the NHL. He celebrates goals in cheesy displays and loves the camera.

This dude is good.

But everytime I read an interview he does I get a little disgusted. It's hard to equate properly but he may be the NHLs version of TO or Ochocinco. I can't stand either one of those guys. While checking the baseball box scores this morning (Logjammin is on FIRE!) on Yahoo I saw another one of his interviews and a report of his clothing line release party. Some of the shit he says is extremely obnoxious. Maybe it's just because he's foreign but it seems like he goes out of the way to show how much of a pimp he is.

Look at him!

He's always talking about the ladies. Often times the guy who talks about how much tail he's getting is usually getting the least but maybe the rules are different in Russia. I don't know. I suppose he could serve as an example to every ass-ugly dude out there that anyone can lay some pipe despite a d-bag personality and a face only your mother could love. Of course all you need in that situation is to be the future of the NHL and make a shit ton of cash.