Georgian Journalist Shows Extreme Dedication to Craft

The UK-based Daily Mail posted the above video of Georgian TV reporter Tamara Urushadze picking the mic back up shortly after a sniper’s bullet grazes her arm. She even has the wits to assert that it must have come from a light weapon because the wound isn’t too bad. 2800 Diggs and counting…
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We Like Likke Li

If Massive Attack well, attacked, Dawn Landes, you’d get an adorable Swede that likes to dance. “If you wanna complain, then I’m not the complaint department,” the meek, alabaster-skinned Lykke Li sings on her new album, Youth Novels, released on June 9 in the US.
Alright, clearly lyrics aren’t her specialty. But I admire her [...]

Afternoon Tea: News Roundup

Denver Debauchery With just 10 days until the Democratic National Convention kicks off. The media is salivating over every scheduling change and RSVP. The Obama camp has decided to let Hillary Clinton’s name be added into the mix to appease the legions of Clintonites who won’t quit ’til their gal has a fair shot at clinching [...]

Soap Box: Moby Worries the DNC Will Take It Lying Down

oh no. for the third time, oh no.
it’s 2008, right?
or is it? maybe it’s 2000?
or 2004?
my confusion is based on the fact that the republicans are doing it again. they’re using the same smear and attack
strategy on barack obama that they used on john kerry and that they used
on al gore.
and we, [...]

Beijing Beat: 16 is the New 13

This very interesting report from ABC News about the allegedly underage Chinese women’s gymnastics team, interviews a forensic artist to explain why looking 12 or 13 is the same as being 12 or 13. There are certain characteristics come with age that the Chinese gymnasts do not have. Like adult teeth.Tonight they square off against [...]

Amuse Bouche: Arbuckle’s Angst Revealed

Jon Arbuckle is one lonely, disturbed man. Without the snarky, eponymous cat in Jim Davis’s Garfield comic strip, the depth of Arbuckle’s angst becomes magnified and hilariously clear. Exhibit A:

Dan Walsh, the 33-year-old administrator and creator of the blog “Garfield Minus Garfield,” didn’t “invent” the phenomenon, but was the first to devote [...]