Wonkette

• Yesterday a district judge ruled that MLB cannot make fantasy baseball owners pay royalties, “since the ballplayers are considered public figures and therefore their performance on the field is owned by the public domain.” [Blogcritics]
• Left-handed men earn more than right-handed men. [Political Animal]
• Taft was the last President with facial hair. [Lawyers , Guns and Money]
• LGF readers make fun of DailyKos, “what total maroons!” [LGF]
• “When I woke up this morning - political animal that I am - what was literally the first thought to cross my mind was, ‘this morning, Israel is fighting for it’s life against Islamo-fascist terrorists while last night the Democrats kicked out a Jew who supports fighting Islamo-fascist terrorists.’” [Blogs for Bush]

• “There’s a growing constituency of low-income white folks in America who aren’t duped any longer… Back in the Sixties, along with the Black Panthers, Young Lords, and the Brown Berets, there was a group of what detractors derided as “white trailer trash” called Rising Up Angry. Its awareness and militancy were second to none.” [Smirking Chimp]

• In a blog clusterfuck, Daily Kos (Markos Moulitsas) disses TNR for defecting to the right, LGF says “Moulitsas’ conspiracy-oriented mindset echoes the anti-rational paranoia of radical Islam.” [LGF]
• Apocalyptic Left Behind video games record which video ads and product placements you view, where your computer is located geographically, and how many New Yorkers you fail to convert and then murder. [Talk To Action]
• Glenn Greenwald on Jose Padilla: “Jose Padilla spent 3.5 years of his life in jail, for charges that the administration is not willing to test in a court of law. Yet it is now bringing a case against Padilla that is “light on facts.” [Glenn Greenwald]
• “Essentially, from time to time Negroponte pulls a toy rabbit around a track and lets the righties get some exercise by running in circles, chasing it.” [The Mahablog]

• HuffPo tsks NYT for being uncritical on the science of breastfeeding, all Tom Cruise on postpartum depression. [HuffPo]

• Daily Kos navel gazes. [Daily Kos]
• Bill Roggio posts video from Afghanistan: “We armed ourselves with automatic weapons and chose the armored 4×4 Toyota pickup with red markings.” [Counterterrorism Blog]
• And finally, something interesting. All blogs are in a frenzy because Kentucky’s Bluegrass Report has been blocked from state government computers. Oh yeah, us too. OUTRAGE. [Bluegrass Report]

’cause I was sittin’ there bored to death… MORE »

Oh, man, should we have been paying attention to this? Seriously? We’ve known about it for a while, seemed like it might be fun, thought about trying to convince someone to pay for us to go to Vegas, but seriously, we thought it’d be like a Mediabistro party, you know, cash bar and classes in getting the attention of actual important people. But the media presence there is nuts. Three NPR reporters, a couple Times-ites (including Maureen Dowd and, above, Kate Phillips, inexplicably writing in first-person and bitching about having to get up early), Original Wonkette, and probably two dozen freelancers trying to pitch it to magazines. MORE »

Warner: I’m looking forward to cynically and half-assedly exploiting this whole “internet” thing. And I heard from the CIA that “a lot of blogs have become very big on the internet.”

* Can’t keep your corrupt public servants straight? Consult this list (bulleted, for easy reference) and you’ll sound like you read [Daily Kos] a lot. [Daily Kos]
* When he’s not postcoitally escaping Ann Coulter, Alec Baldwin’s defending his commendation of Bill O’Reilly. Respect Bill’s skills, if not his ability to hold back cheap shots at a Baldwin. [HuffPo]
* All those Mexican flags on the left coast got Michelle Malkin confused. Send Old Glory to the DeskJet and wave her proudly. [Michelle Malkin]
* Running out of ways to disappoint Jesus? Pierce your tongue. Contract Herpes. Share someone’s toothbrush. Increase your odds of being smote by the increasingly hard to please Christ child. [Evangelical Outpost]
* Globalization need not confuse you. India’s money + China’s money = Jars of 7,000 pickles with free dental insurance behind the nutrition labels. [Booman Tribune]

* Captain Ed begins the petition for convert’s sainthood, then pees on Edward Gibbon’s leg: “Muslims have always been singular in their use of violence to both convert and to keep their own from converting . . . ” Then we piss on the captain’s leg by quoting him out of context: ” . . . religious freedom only belongs in Europe and the Americas.” [Captain's Quarters]
* Howie wonders why Jesus isn’t super cool anymore. His commenters tuck him in, then blow shit up. [The Jawa Report]
* Frank J.