From his speech in Houston last night:

"We're going to have to parent better, and turn off the television set, and put the video games away ..."

The cast of Spongebob Squarepants dubs scenes from Casablanca, Singin' in the Rain, and The Godfather. They mostly stick to the scripts. Mostly.



Update 2/13: Different YouTube link.

Bad: Driving a bookmobile while drunk.

Worse: Recording a country song about a bookmobile while drunk.

New from Marc Record and the Good Ol' PACs: The Bookmobile Ran Over My Dog. (mp3) Possibly the only song ever that mentions Christopher Hitchens.

Lyric sheet. More BibDitties.

This guy.

We keep hearing that homemade gifts are the best, so jingle bells, deck the halls, and all that:



BTW, The Roches were in town this past weekend. For the encore, they invited the audience up on stage, so we were among the 50 or so folks who went up and sang "Silver Bells" and "Silent Night" with them. Fun evening.

... give a muthafuckin' book! That's what an editorial in today's Chicago Tribune says. Though not quite in those words.

In yesterday's Trib, Internet columnist Steve Johnson critiques The Daily Show's website:

But the overall feel is, in fact, a little too library-like. ... At thedailyshow.com, you're plucking books off bookshelves - and then reading only a chapter at a time.

Please, please, please ... A library must buy this unmailable 1898 document about foul language used by baseball players.

Whether it be the language quoted above [Oh, yes, the document does quote language!], or some other indecent and infamous invention of depravity, the League is pledged to remove it from the ball field ...