The brains of the WULAD Cleverness-Wasting Council are still sore from crafting the Neal Pollack acrostic, so while their synapses refresh themselves, we humbly pour you a big cup of…
WULAD Web Wround-up
First on the menu: This is the sort of thing that made me an atheist.
Platypuses hunt with electro-sensors… and they will never stop hunting you.
Will Carroll of Baseball Prospectus (who makes occasional use of the nickname I suggested for sports-medicine-enthusiasts, "MedHeads") has got great overheard quotes from baseball's winter meetings.
I neglected to mention the other day how much it bothered me that the operation which resulted in Saddam Hussein’s capture was named after a Patrick Swayze movie. Luckily, Chatterbox is all over that shiznit.
Dances With Stereotypes
The Times had a piece yesterday about the ongoing battle of Little Big Mascot, which introduced me to my new favorite white Midwestern idiot, loudly proclaiming his unawareness of said idiocy:
John Gadaut, a lawyer in Champaign, said he had spent more than $5,000 on keep-the-[Illinois mascot] chief billboards and buttons. "I'm a Native American," said Gadaut, who is white. "I was born and bred in Illinois. The chief means something to me, too. People keep saying we have a mascot. No, we have a symbol. … It's my whole heritage in front of me. Hey, these people can be my heritage even though this guy's skin is not my color." He dismissed … opponents of the chief as "leftist social engineers."(See here for some examples of rightist social engineers.) I suppose he’s correct in a sense; mocking and denigrating minorities while appropriating romanticized caricatures of their culture is definitely a part of his heritage. However, the article failed to mention far and away the most heinous—yet most widely accepted—example of Native American minstrelsy in the sports world: Chief Wahoo of the Cleveland Indians. Although the esteemed Chief has been ostensibly replaced in his “official” capacity as mascot—by a ridiculous Youppi-esque monster called “Slider”—his toothy, blood-red mug adorns the team’s caps, jerseys, and nearly every piece of fan merchandise. In addition to its general offensiveness, I also hate that shit-eating grin because it makes me dislike the Indians (the team, not the ethnic group)—one of the younger, scrappier, and more exciting teams in baseball—intensely.
But I digress. For my final no-new-effort-required item, we continue the series begun Monday:
Wrapped Up Like An Internet Search, part II: The Douche
The following are 100% genuine searches that have led (presumably disappointed) searchers to this tiny shack by the internet tracks:
- Origin of douche
- Why we douche
- Douche for sexual pleasure
- Do they say douche?
- Forced douche
- Picture of douche bag
- Douche pictures
- Douche container
- Crack up like a douche
- Wrapped up like a douche meaning
- Wrapped up like a douche bag
- Douche bug
- Douche bagel
- Douche the Marlins
- Great douche
- Erotic douche
- Android 18 douche
- Monolith douche
- Chicken douche
- Douche for dogs
- Dancing douche
- Douche Bag Dave
- Dave is a douche
- Steve is a douche
- Brad is a douche
- Neil is a douche
- Steve Bartman douche
- Rupert Murdoch douche
- Ann Coulter is a douche
- John Kerry is a Douche
- George Bush is a douche
- Have A Douche Break
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