It's no wonder that the widget Echowood posted yesterday thinks I might be a guy, with the suggestions I get via email. Here's one that you fellows will enjoy, a synthesis of sex and violence: The 50 Hottest Women Sword Fighters.

I admit it, I've got a thing for babes with blades. Something about stunning beauty coupled with impending peril really sharpens my blade.

With that in mind, I've compiled the ultimate list of hot sword fighting movie actresses.

You might pick up some ideas for your next Netflix order.

This past weekend there was a demonstration in Times Square from the group Critical Mass. A group that apparently tries to get people to ride bicycles.

Well, rookie cop Patrick Pogan felt they were getting out of hand and arrested one of the demonstrators. The report read that the cyclist was:

Obstructing vehicular traffic by riding defendants bicycle in the center lane while traveling southbound on 7th Avenue at above named location and while weaving defendants bicycle in and out of the center lane of traffic, thereby forcing multiple vehicles to stop abruptly or change their direction in order to avoid hitting the defendant. Deponent further states that the defendant's above described conduct caused public disturbance and inconvenience in that it caused disruption of the normal flow of traffic. Deponent further states that upon instructing the defendant to cease the above described conduct, the defendant steered the defendant's bicycle in the direction of the deponent and drove defendant's bicycle into deponents body, causing deponent to fall to the ground and causing deponent to suffer lacerations on deponents forearms.

I added the italics.

Got that? Seems reasonable. Law enforcement needs to curtail to unruly. Then video appeared of the incident. See if you see any discrepancies between the report and what actually happened.



Officer Pogan has since been disciplined.

Video can also be seen here.

Who in the fuck is in charge of his messaging? Here's his latest commercial

Really? You're reduced to admitting he's more popular than you are? You're actually trying to make his popularity and youth a bad thing? Are you out of your ever loving mind?

Hey, let's turn the tables. Here's some cool stuff that was going on in 1936..the year John McCain was born.

March 1936 - Hoover Dam is completed (yes, that's right. John McCain is as old as the motherfucking Hoover Dam)

June 1936 - Gone With The Wind is published...the book....for the first time

January 1936 - The Green Hornet show premiers....on motherfucking radio

March 1936 - Stock cars are raced at Daytona...for the first time.

November 1936 - Franklin Roosevelt is reelected to his second term.

Fun stuff that came after McCain was born...the bombing of London by Hitler, televisions becoming popular in homes, the birth of Steve Jobs.

To McCain's credit he was born after the discovery of Pluto...by 6 years.

Now that Scrabulous has been taken down on Facebook across the US and Canada, we thought we'd give you something else to kill those hours in between TPS reports. So head over to YesButNoButYes's official Facebook group, sign-up, and watch the magic happen*.

*Magic is not guaranteed. Unless you consider "magic" to be gratuitous shots of Johnny Wright riding a mechanical bull with leather chaps at a rodeo bar on Sunday night.

Hilarity ensued last week when Barack Obama spoke to 200,000 in Germany and John McCain spoke to seven outside a German restaurant.

Quick note to the McCain campaign staff: I'm just spitballin' here, but you may want to crosscheck Senator Obama's schedule to try to limit the juxtapositions of the candidates. While Obama was striding through the Middle East and Europe, your guy was chatting in the cheese aisle. Just a thought.

Last week was funny, but friends, you have not witnessed comedy until you see John McCain squirm while he holds hands with the Dalai Lama.

The Joker gets better Robert Johnson sells his soul Peter Pan in Long Island The Thing meets the Dashwood sisters Someone's made another graphic mixtape for you

Every Wednesday we run down the 5 most interesting comics or graphic novels coming out for the week.

This smells fake, but Gawker is reporting that a "monster" which has a rodent body and dinosaur-like beak washed ashore near Montauk, NY. Adding to the mystery, residents report that "there's a government animal testing facility very close by" which means what you think it does ... The Island of Dr. Moreau was non-fiction. We are a few years away from bird-human hybrids who can drop bombs from midair and also check for dandruff.

(Via Boing Boing)

It's getting hot in the forest! You might want to turn the audio down if you're at work, otherwise, this is perfectly innocent (yeah, right). Greenpeace explores the passion.

Oh Senator Kerry, how have you gotten as far as you have?

There are reports that this past weekend John Kerry attended the American Ireland Fund's event on Nantucket. That's not a problem.

However, there are photos of Kerry looking, let's just say relaxed, at the event surrounded by sultry co-eds and frat-boys. The windsurfing former Presidential candidate looks like he is channeling Frank the Tank.

It seems it would have been a good idea to skip the event. Does he not remember this picture?

A cabinet position in a possible Obama White House continues to be unlikely.