all-encompassingly

A great collection of parodies playing off of the omnipresent motivation posters…

Being in Iraq for two years is a quagmire?
Ha! We’ve never left Europe since WWII.

a poll.

“Protestors” outside the GOP convention.
Heh.

Yet another reason that parents should be watching what their kids do online.
LOS ANGELES (AP) - An Internet chat room monitor hired to keep children safe from…predators seduced a California girl online and was about to meet her…when he was found out by a co-worker, a lawsuit charges.

idaho lawmakers have “legalized” the movie napoleon dynamite:

LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF IDAHO
Fifty-eighth Legislature
First Regular Session - 2005
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
[…]

A guy from one of my PoliSci classes runs an interesting site on student loan consolidation. It explains all the ins-and-outs of consolidating your student loans. For example:
Q. So, yeah, why would I want to do that?
A. Good question, glad you asked. There are several reasons why you might want to enter the […]

The future is now. Big brother has truly arrived in Argentina.
Argentina’s leftist president, Nestor Kirchner, has pushed through an unbelievable anti-privacy law which takes effect this July. My good Argentine friends will begin having their every move online monitored. Email, web sites visited, even instant messages, are going to be archived for […]

A bit old, but still one of the most amazing photos I’ve ever seen.
Thank heaven for poor cell service in Baghdad…

For those who still read the New York Times there is a nifty site, The Annotated New York Times, that lets you see what kind of discussion the various articles (especially the op-eds) are generating in the blogosphere.
My favorite article on their front page right now?

I thought that I was the last person to see this video, but I guess not. Think: Star Wars Kid + William Hung, but cooler.
Watch Numa Numa.

Microsoft recently entered the blogging world with “MSN Spaces,” a Blogger-type service where users can create their own blogs.
As is being reported, however, Microsoft apparently owns anything that their users publish:

with unabashed tackiness, christiane amanpour obsessed over the pontiff’s “controversiality”. at least helen thomas wasn’t there…
for my part, i am in awe of the inspiring life the man lived.

(quiet mumbly voice) haha…..alright…..yeah…..
As many of you already know, the inspiration for this blog, Mitch Hedberg, has died.
You can read all about it through Google News.
We will be adding several Mitch related elements to the page over the next little while.