Cease And Desist This!

Earlier this week, the Washington Post’s Mike Wise wrote an extremely strange column about how the NHL should cheat and let the Capitals advance in the playoffs and how Flyers fans are big meanies.

Trust me, the Flyers’ “Vengeance Now” slogan is pretty freaking weird, but that doesn’t excuse ridiculous columns that include things like, “Five minutes into the game, they showed a video of Philly’s top brawls this past season, many involving Cote grabbing hold of an opponents’ shirt for leverage before pummeling him to the ice, which is just a swell environment for children — children of Patrick Roy. [Ed: Ex-goalie Roy encouraged his son to fight in a game recently.] They flat-out market and sell violence here, sanctioned, unbridled assaults disguised as sport.”

The Flyers came up with a fantastic response: Hand out 20,000 copies of this column at the game to fans. Hilarious! But the Washington Post is apparently a humorless organization full of people worrying about the children and the copyrights, because they sent the Flyers a cease-and-desist letter in order to nix the promotion.

No matter. The Flyers rallied from a 3-2 deficit and won on a rebound goal by Mike Knuble in the second overtime to go up 3-1 in the best-of-seven series. Word is the Post attempted to issue a cease-and-desist letter before the rebound, claiming they had copyrighted rebound shots back in the 1930s.

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WaPo Prints ‘Cokehead’ Obama Quote!

Hells yeah, Barack Obama knows how we roll. Er, I mean: I was thinking of starting to reference Obama as “cokehead” in posts, hoping that his supporters would come to the comment, call me a jerk and then I would calmly retort with information about drug policy reform and we’d all learn an important lesson.

I ended up not doing this because it’s stupid. But it doesn’t matter, because the Washington Post printed a quote calling Barack Obama a “former cokehead”:

Erick Erickson, editor of the blog RedState, wrote that voters should be wary of “the liberal anti-gun former cokehead whose feminist wife hates America.”

Yeah! You tell ‘em…uh, blog editor Erick Erickson! This quote comes from Howard Kurtz’ column about how the liberal media is letting Obama off the hook for worshiping the wrong God, hating America and smoking crack with former Howard Stern personality Crackhead Bob. Glenn Greenwald is very angry about this column, as usual.

I wouldn’t piss off the cokehead/former cokehead voting bloc, though. I have seen mirrors with text on ‘em: “I’m a cokehead, and I vote!”

Oh, and Obama’s friend or backer or something — but not Barack Obama — goes on trial today for bribery; Obama could actually be called to the stand! Yeah, that’s a little better of a scandal, though things are going to have to heat up if he wants to catch Walnuts McCain’s wacky scandal of wanting 100 more years in Iraq and fewer jobs in America.

Washington Post Declares Horse Who Won A Race More Important Than Ex-Congressman Who Happened To Be A Jesuit Priest

From yesterday’s Washington Post, courtesy of Slate:

Drinan = Barbaro? [Slate]

Quickies: Temple of the dog and cat

• While I’m not as big of a fan of them as I am of puppies, kittens are pretty boffo too. But sometimes they can be used for evil. Or at least to reinforce gender stereotyping, or something. Readers are angry at Step Inside Design’s December/January issue, which had a kitten-filled cover to represent the “Women of Design.” The response: “But we honestly believe you can change connotations by re-appropriating them (especially with humor). That’s why it’s OK for Spike Lee to make a movie about minstrel shows but it would not be OK if Woody Allen did. Mel Brooks can get away for Springtime for Hitler, but Prussian Blue can’t … context is everything.” This is what as known as the “re-appropriating stereotypes cop out.” [Folio Magazine]

• In honor of the Chinese New Year — the year of the dog — here’s a list of the top 100 pop culture dogs ever. Krypto, Superman’s dog, lands at #19. I’m feverishly working on a Top 100 Puppies Ever list. [Retrocrush]

• Somebody at the BBC totally effed up and somehow the BBC spent some time filming in Bristol, Bucks County, as opposed to the version of that town across the pond. (Okay, they’re actually following around Iraq War vet and Democrat Patrick Murphy — who’s also running for Congress — which means give the liberal bloggers five minutes to start going nutso over this television appearance.) [Bucks County Courier Times]

• I want to live in this guy’s world, because I bet the mind-altering drugs are fantastic: “[The Washington Post has] decided to use their pages to mount a political campaign against progressive bloggers, who they’ve apparently decided are their sworn enemy. It’s absolutely paranoid and ridiculous.” [MyDD]

• Yes, if you’ve stepped outside today, Philadelphia is channeling 1849 London with all this fog. [Philadelphia Weather]

Quickies: Second encore

• Okay, no Ben backlash here: This 1,200 photo montage of Ben Franklin by Tom Gralish is pretty damn cool. Especially when Franklin Mills (left) is included! [Inky]

• 89-year-old Walter Cronkite has a new 65-year-old girlfriend. Man, imagine the harem Ben Franklin would have if he were alive today! [Inky]

• Did youse all see the Sixers game Friday night? Ehm, maybe not. But the Sixers were down 16, rallied to tie it, hit a three at the buzzer of the second OT to send it into triple-overtime, then won it by a point. And, then, in a great encore, they lost by 28 yesterday! Whoo! When do the hockey playoffs start? [DN]

• And, in case you haven’t seen it yet, Miss New Jersey has a blog. Miss New Jersey? Isn’t that like being the funniest war movie? (Rimshot.) [Camden Courier-Post]

• The Washington Post’s ombudsman gets something wrong, and Will Bunch lays the smack down. That’s my boy! [Poynter Online via Eschaton]