They kissed each other on Cox's TV show "Dirt" last night.

The kiss, which occurred immediately after Aniston grabbed hold of Cox's butt, has since been dubbed "The Greatest Moment in Television History".

Number of ejaculations? 27.8 and counting....

Update: Now available on YouTube-

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I have a commitment that will take me out of the house for most of the early afternoon tomorrow. I may be posting at my, um, normal time lately of 1:00 or so, or it might continue for a while. Not sure.

Anyway, please use this official Ace of Spades HQ Open Thread (TM) to discuss off-topic moroncrap that you'd otherwise be discussing in non-open threads.

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Trying to figure out if I kinda like this or I think it's just being different for the sake of being different.

Rockabilly + Punk + Horror/Pulp Luridness.

Eh. Not sure I really see much of a difference, apart from tempo, from plain old rockabilly.

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Well, look. It's not going to happen, and certainly not through these guys' purchasing the rights to the show. For one thing, Captain Reynolds has a series now.

Still, filling out this survey to express interest and say you'd be interested in paying to download new episodes can't hurt.

Assuming it's not a scam. But that's why Al Gore invented hotmail accounts.

The show's popularity has grown quite a bit since it was cancelled. On one hand, it failed the first time. On the other hand, it failed because people (like me) didn't hear it was a good show until too late. (Um, actually, I heard it was a good show before it was cancelled; I just didn't believe anyone.)

Seems to me that between a brand-new show with no brand identity and an older show which failed the first time but has a lot of brand identity and a growing audience, might make sense to take a chance on Firefly again.

Via House of Payne.

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Hah. Pretty funny. I give Natalie Imbruglia points for being kinda funny and a good sport.

Not as funny, but okay.

Thanks to JackStraw and 3rd_bird.

Original Version of Torn: The band edna swap wrote it. I like the singer better than Natalie Imbruglia (although, yeah, she's cute). It's also sung as a sad, hurt song, rather than a cute bouncy poppy thing, which is, like, how you'd expect a song like Torn to be sung. (Not that I'm against cute bouncy poppy things; just seems an odd way to sing a breakup song.)

Content warning, because they slapped the song over video cut from the Showtime lesbian series The L-Word, so there's chicks kissing, some brief nudity, and -- worst of all -- Arianna Huffingon in the opening seconds for reasons I could not even begin to guess at.

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But that's not the weird part. The weird part is that he had an accomplice.

Drew Gagnon, 37, was arrested in November after police said he broke into the barn on Croton Falls Road early Thanksgiving morning and used orange spray paint on the genitals of the three goats owned by the Fiero family.

Carmel police charged him with third-degree burglary, a felony, and three misdemeanor counts of animal cruelty.

In court last night, the goats' owner, Bryce Fiero, said he would withdraw the charges in exchange for Gagnon and his alleged accomplice, 34-year-old Douglas Bisio of Mahopac, making a donation to the Putnam Humane Society.

Charges were dropped. The spray-painters had faced one count of animal cruelty and three counts of aggravated clashing with a goat-testicle decor concept.*

Thanks to dri.

* You see the sort of joke I was going for, right? It's a complete botch. What was the right way to write it?

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Islamophobia -- Catch the Fever!

A useful response to those who try to profit from their own bad behavior.

I know, I know: The cherub-faced ghost of Benjamin Franklin just cried a little.

But then he started giggling like a pervert in a pooter factory.

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This guy is running for President? Really?

If so, he's running third party -- I think he's deliberately considering playing the spoiler to drain away isolationist conservatives from the GOP and insure a Democratic victor.

Here's the thing. The whole idea of a timetable is moot for all practical purposes at this point. Either the war will be become clearly winnable in the next several months -- which seems to be happening -- in which case only the hardest core anti-American Democrats will demand a unilateral and unncessary surrender, or it won't be, in which case the American public will so sour of it they'll believe anyone who tells them "We've won! Now let's go home!" so they can surrender without acknowledging they're doing such.

But that doesn't mean there's nothing at stake.

What's the point of forcing a timetable? To reassure American liberal voters that they can trust the promises of the Democratic Party.

Waht's the point of resisting a timetable? To reassure Iraqi civilians, and Al Qaeda terrorists, that they can trust, or fear, as the case may be, the promises of the American government.

It's largely a symbolic matter. But whose symbolism is in the American interest, and whose symbolism in only in the interests of a political party and, not coincidentally, Al Qaeda?

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It's getting bad out there. Pretty soon I'll have to resort to cutting and pasting stories from Cracked.

It's fun to think that this is due to the public rejecting the liberal bias of the increasingly partisan media, and to some small extent it is. But the real problem is the internet -- people have now simply become used to the idea that news ought to be free, the same as broadcast television.

Before the Internet made newspapers from around the world available at the touch of a button, people were used to the idea of paying for it. Now they're accustomed to not doing so, and fewer and fewer people will bother as more and more people get hooked up online.

That's a pretty serious problem -- you have all the same fixed costs that you had when people were buying your product now that people aren't buying your product, but merely consuming it for free.

I don't know why on earth every news organization hasn't already installed an ad entry page which you must sit through in order to access their content. That in itself won't pay the bills, but for crying out loud, what business makes its product free without any attempt to get some payment for it?

These idiots really want the same bullshit email addresses and biographical information I keep feeding them when they ask me to register
(it's free and it's fun!)"? They're, um, making serious coin out of all my various "eatme@yahoo.com" fake email addresses? Or do they just all own stock in BugMeNot.com?

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It's not the resolution I might have preferred, but at least it is quite definite, final, and unquestionable.

Whether you won or lost on this question, it's time to move on to other controversies.

Or you'll have your spleen kicked up your throat.

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