UPDATED — I'm a Wolverine, so I just can't pass this up

see more Sports Pictures Note to gentle readers who do not follow college sports: The University of Michigan (Go Blue! Hail to the victors valiant!) and Ohio State University (Hiss! Boo!) are rivals. Oh, and the mascot for the University of Michigan is the wolverine, one of Nature’s fiercest predators. The mascot for Ohio State …

Literal video — finally, music videos I can relate to

Neo-neocon introduced me to the phenomenon of literal videos in a post of hers I read last night featuring the literal video version of Bonnie Tyler’s 1983 hit, “Total Eclipse of the Heart.” A literal video maker takes a music video and changes the lyrics to describe the action in the video but sings the …

Iowahawk spots top Democrats in circular firing squad

Check out Iowahawk’s brilliant take on the intra-party war top Democrats are now waging via their proxies in the press and see if, like me, it reminds you of the song from the musical Chicago, “They Both Reached for the Gun” — and, um, just to be clear, I mean the puppet master aspect of …

He is risen — Keyboard Cat, that is

Rejoice! Keyboard Cat is risen — well, there’s a new orange tabby of Buddha-like serenity playing keyboards and drum and even tossing in some wicked dance moves. Brenna Ehrlich of Mashable has the story. The dear, departed Fatso, the original Keyboard Cat, is famous for the “Play him off, Keyboard Cat” YouTube videos adapted from …

Did Dan Rather tell Chris Matthews Obama couldn't sell watermelons?

What Dan Rather said to Chris Matthews this morning on MSNBC about the current state of Obama’s persuasive powers is, “But he couldn’t sell watermelons if you gave him a state trooper to flag down the traffic.” There’s no racial monopoly on who sells or buys watermelons. Rather made no allusions to race. So — …