Ogre Gunner sends this very dorky video.

It looks funny. I don't know if it is funny, because my f'n' computer won't play sound with most online videos.

Craig sends this story of an Eastern bunny gone bad. A 6-foot-2-inch, 280 man dressed as the Easter Bunny for a mall photo shoot got into a brawl with at least one woman, punching her in the back of the neck (a rabbit punch, the article notes).

McClure denied he punched the woman when he was contacted by a reporter from news-press.com Monday. He said he was trying to split up two women who were fighting, including his wife, exhibit manager Crystal Frechette. There was no way, McClure said, to satisfy the long line of people who wanted their childrenÂ’s picture taken as the exhibit was preparing close. McClure said he was hot and couldnÂ’t stand being in the bunny costume any longer.

“My shirt was soaked with sweat,” McClure said. “I almost threw up.”

The melee shocked customers, mall employees and the company who hired McClure and Frechette. Mall management issued an apology to parents and children.

More proof that the Easter Bunny Hates You.

Craig also sends this hard-hitting investigative report on what, precisely, causes Girls to Go Wild. Specifically, why are women suddenly so eager to flash their boobs at the drop of a hat?

While most commentators disparaged the breast baring as the antics of drunken, foolish women, new research concludes it was motivated by a complex set of factors, including a desire to celebrate [sports teams'] victories, a desire to break the rules, feelings of stardom and a sense of history.

Yes... a complex set of factors. Possibly an interaction between various environmental inputs and a good dose of alcohol, or, as I call it, liquid strumpet.

"The context was so important," said Mary Valentich, professor emeritus of social work at the University of Calgary. "You just wouldn't necessarily do this elsewhere. It had to be the right kind of setting."

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Indeed, breast baring has increased of late, including at sports events and concerts, partly due to relaxed societal attitudes on nudity, said Edward Herold, a professor emeritus at the University of Guelph who studies human sexuality.

"It happens with a certain degree of regularity now at certain events," he said. "Some women today are more likely to have this sense of freedom."

Shockingly, the words "empower" or "empowering" are not mentioned in the article at all.

I've conducted my own research into this phenomenon. I'm currently shopping around a paper to all the major behavioral science journals, titled Why Do Women Bare Their Breasts? New Evidence Points To "Dirty, Dirty Whore" Gene.

I'm hoping for a MacArthur Genius grant.

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Strunk & Whitewash.

Alas, I didn't allow Jeff or Michelle to get a word in edgewise, or else we might have mentioned this on the show:

He who controls the way people talk controls the way they think. Hence, it is no surprise that the EUSSR is actively trying to manipulate our language. Last February, The Daily Telegraph reported that Franco Frattini, the EU Commissioner for Justice, Freedom, and Security, declared he was in favour of some kind of self-regulatory media code in reporting about Islam. Now the EU officials are “discreetly reviewing the language it uses to describe terrorists who claim to act in the name of Islam. EU officials are working on what they call a ‘lexicon’ for public communication on terrorism and Islam, designed to make clear that there is nothing in the religion to justify outrages like the Sept. 11 attacks or the bombings of Madrid and London. The lexicon would set down guidelines for EU officials and politicians.”

The term “Islamic terrorism” will no longer be used. Nor will words such as “Islamist,” “fundamentalist” and “jihad.” The latter, for example, is often used by Islamic terrorists to mean warfare against infidels, but according to an EU official “for a Muslim Jihad is a perfectly positive concept of trying to fight evil within yourself.”

The EU civil servants drafting the lexicon claim it will be a “non-emotive lexicon for discussing radicalisation.” The lexicon will be submitted to the 25 EU leaders in June. An EU official said the point of using careful language was not to “fall into the trap” of offending and alienating citizens. “This is an attempt [...] to be aware of the sensitivities implied by the use of certain language.”

Jihad is "a perfectly positive concept for trying to fight evil within yourself"?

True enough, I guess, except this "evil within yourself" is apparently only succeptible to high explosives studded with shrapnel, and the only possible battlefield for "taking the fight" to this evil is, apparently, in a shopping center or hotel or police station.

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Who knew? A terrorist plugged in the lung with a non-Israeli bullet simply says "Ah, well, I guess I deserved that, didn't I?," whereas he'll go into Islamist beserker fury if hit with an Israeli bullet, gaining +6 on his attacks due to gaining "retard strength."

Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through Congress, son.

Thanks to Craig.

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The Sublime Miss M will be discussing immigration, the "reconquest" of California and the American southwest by racialist Hispanics, all sorts of moonbattery on our campuses, and the death threats she's received by merely publicizing a lefty group's press release.

At 4PM Eastern on Rightalk.

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Kind of not safe for work. It's just Gatorade bottles, but they look like dorkbats.

Basketball Awful wonders why Gatorade bottles are shaped like penises.

And, if this is inadvertant, why do they feature ads that make the penis angle all the more obvious?

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Trent Lott is determined to use Katrina funds to move a train line that was just upgraded at significant cost to the taxpayer.

They claim all this is necessary to protect the growing coastal population from "rail accidents." (Ummm, how many of these happen per year?)

Opponents say it's just a gift to casino and property developers.

Once again: if this is so crucially important to the economy/safety of Mississippi, then Mississippians ought to have no problem paying for it with state and local tax money.

But when there's free federal money available, decidedly low-priority projects suddenly become "crucial." Why not spend $700 million or so on some minor improvements in a train line if you're not paying for it?

Trent Lott... the gift that keeps on giving.

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He denies it, but sort of jokes about it. He doesn't seem to deny his quotes about it, just suggests he was "kidding."

I don't think I've ever really seem Tom Cruise kidding in real life. And barely ever in his movies. He is stultifyingly earnest.

Hollywood actor Tom Cruise has played down reports that he plans to eat the placenta of his new baby.

The War of the Worlds star was quoted in GQ magazine saying he thought the placenta and umbilical cord would be "very nutritious".

But in a subsequent interview with Diane Sawyer on US television, he made light of the comments.

"Yeah, we're going to do that - a whole family thing. Isn't that normal and natural? No, we're not eating it."

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Cruise also claimed he knew Holmes, 27, was pregnant even before she told him.

He must have smelled something tasty.

He says We're not eating it. A little bit of parsing leaves open the possibility that he'll be eating it.

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Volokh is happy they concluded their little "investigation" so quickly.

I'm not. The proper response to this disgusting bit of Oleanna Stalinism was to immediately slap these silly little bitches in the face and say, "Grow some stones, Nancy."

The charges were absurd -- and malevolent -- on their face. I doubt that this sort of charge would be greeted with anything but a "Get the fudge out of my office" were the target a Liberal In Good Standing.

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Clint W. Taylor reads between the lines of a recent Yale policy change, and determines it most likely is an effort to deny the Yale Taliban entry into the school as a real matriculated student.

Basically, non-student attendees of the school (like the Yale Taliban) will be held to the normal, very competitive standards that Yale students generally are, with no Leftist Celebrity Hero "plus factors." His entry into the school as an actual student will be based on actual "achievement," and, given that his achievements consist chiefly of aiding and abetting oppression, maiming, and mass-murder, he's unlikely to get in.

Then again, it's Yale. They may find "Yale could use a man like Hashemi."

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No, seriously. Seriously.

Authorities were unsure whether or not to categorize this as cannibalism or merely "a desperate cry for help."

Your mission, if you choose to accept it, is to consume the placenta of your child. Your tenuous grip on sanity will self-desctruct five seconds afterwards.

TOM Cruise yesterday revealed his latest bizarre mission... to eat his new baby's placenta.

Cruise vowed he would tuck in straight after girlfriend Katie Holmes gives birth, saying he thought it would be "very nutritious".

The Mission Impossible star, 43, said: "I'm gonna eat the placenta. I thought that would be good. Very nutritious. I'm gonna eat the cord and the placenta right there." It is the latest in a series of increasingly strange outbursts from Cruise in the run-up to the birth.

He has claimed the baby, due any day, will be delivered in total silence.

The Top Gun star also insisted he "sensed" fiancŽe Katie was pregnant before she told him.

And he has blurted out details of the couple's sex life, saying: "It's spectacular."

The actor, who recently also claimed he has the power to cure drug addicts, has even been carrying out his own medical scans on the foetus after buying himself an ultrasound machine.

In related news, LaToya Jackson remarked, "Okay, maybe my dad's constant intimadation and abuse of me wasn't so bad after all."

Thanks to John From Wuzzadem, who has a suitably disturbing photoshop and a similar story about David "Grasshopper" Carradine.

Also thanks to Red State Rant.

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