The Jessie Burkett Silver Star #12: Ugliest Tattoos, A Gallery of Regret.
I couldn't possibly begin to describe the horror and hilarity on display here. As I once read on a (de)motivational poster: The Internet doesn't MAKE you stupid, it just makes you stupidity more accessible to others. Frickin' hilarious. WTF were these people thinking?!
The Frank Chance Silver Star #13: Netflix
I know what you're thinking. A commercial/corporate site? Really? Lemme splain... I HATE. HATE. HATE. Blockbuster. I hate Big Blue with a Passion that I can taste in my BALLS. There selection SUCKS. NOTHING was ever in stock. "FREE" never applied to anything I wanted to see, and don't even get me started on their "NO FEES" bullshit. And they were EVERYWHERE! They were the reason poor Classicliberal couldn't make any money at his vid store! So I am far more than a happy customer when it comes to Netflix. I believe that there toppling of teh ubiquitous (and arrogant) Blockbuster, and Blockbuster's inevitable bankruptcy, is a truly inspiring story. A real David vs. Goliath. The triumph of the vision that Al Gore had over the status quo. I LOVE Netflix and I stump for them every chance I get. They rock. And the faster Blockbuster disappears from the map the better. If I ever set foot in a Blockbuster store again, it will be a Billion years too soon.
The Jack Chesbro Carbon Star: The Global Warming Petition Project
If I have to explain to you the mountain of pseudo- and junk- science bullshit that this site represents, then you're in the wrong place. I could do a whole book on this Conservative pile of shit, but why bother? A million sites already have. It comes down to this: If you're liberal, you listen to scientists and if you're conservative you listen to Fox News and Rush Limbaugh. You also probably think that "peer review" means science is settled by democratic vote or online petitions. Of course do you know what's missing from this petition? The input and support or ANYONE doing any actual climate research. Oh well. Why let the scientific method get in the way of good propaganda?
The Johnny Evers Silver Star #14: Very Demotivational
I'm sorry, but the surest way to spot a real ass-kisser is the motivational poster hanging on the wall. Usually has something like an eagle or a mountain climber on it, along with some insipid saying that has no relevance whatsoever to any problem you'll ever actually face in life. DEmotivational posters, OTOH, might just be the greatest application of satire in the history of mankind. I LOVE these.
The Tommy McCarthy Pyrite Star: The Drudge Report
That's "Pyrite," as in, "Fool's Gold." Which pretty much sums up this miserable pile of horseshit. It amazes me that it was conservative who first stumbled across the innovation to use the internet for political propaganda and made a name for himself. What doesn't surprise is (1) that he's a serial liar. (2) That he's a complete sleezeball. (3) That he was also the LAST Conservative blogger to make a name for himself. (HuffPo pwns this loser!) And to this day, liberal bloggers kick all ass in terms of research, accuracy, original ideas, free-thinking, open minds and challenging arguments; while conservative bloggers kick all ass when it comes to repeating and clinging to long debunked and worn-out right-wing talking points. Nevertheless, it's important to honor the point at which it all began, if for no other reason than to show how it should never have been done.
The Joe McGinnity Silver Star #15: Runescape
Runescape is an online multi-player online role playing game. It's basically a [very] poor man's Wolrd of Warcraft. I won't argue that it's somehow better than WoW. It's not. It IS however a whole lot CHEAPER, and has a kick-ass, totally free version that's worth checking out. (And if you like it, let me assure you that the subscription version is totally worth the five bucks a month!) I play this a lot. If I ever go three or four days without a post here? THAT'S what I've been doing. And unlike WoW, it's a GAME not a LIFESTYLE. And that's why I don't bother with WoW: I have a LIFE. LOL (Just kidding... really, it's because I'm cheap! LOL)
The Joe Tinker Silver Star #16: Baseball Almanac
This is a alternative site to Baseball-Reference. B-R is far more in-depth, but there ARE a few things that they're missing that B-A has. If you're not as insane a Baseball fan as I am, you probably won't be interested, but if you are a serious fan, it's a "must-bookmark."
The Eddie Plank Lead Star: FoxNation
It's not necessarily bad that there are conservative news outlets, or conservative blogs. There really no problem with Conservative BIAS, it's blatant dishonesty and demonstrable lies and false hoods that I have a problem with. These guys hit MMFA's radar a couple of times a day. (Only Limbugh and the Fox News Channel hit more.) Why people would prefer to get thier news from a source that's not only blatantly and unapologetically biased, but inaccurate, dishonest and some times even woefully out of date, is beyond me. It's just like then Senator Obama said in that 2008 campaign stop: "It's like they take pride in being ignorant!"
The Rube Waddell Silver Star #17: Sporcle
OMFG... What an addictive little collection of time-wasters THIS is! It's basically a series of triva games, where you have to list a certain number of items in a topic, in under a certain amount of time. They have a wide variety of cotegories, and add several new games every day. So check it out. I GUARENTEE you'll be hooked and lose the net half-hour (or more) of your life to it!
The Ed Walsh Silver Star #18: Cracked
From the makers of "Cracked" magazine - who completely pwns MAD, BTW - comes Cracked.com. Mostly a bunch of articles that are in the form of "Top #" lists. (7 Extinct Giant Versions of Modern Animals, for example.) Often informative, and always hilarious, this site is loaded with brain-crack. It's like Maxim magazine on steroids. So check it out. You'll both laugh and come away feeling smarter.
Let me know what you think!
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I'm in the process of adding my HOF to the main page of the blog, but,
for reference, previous inductees include:
Ty Cobb's GOLD STAR #1: Media Matters for America
Babe Ruth's GOLD STAR #2: The Skeptic's Dictionary
Honus Wagner's GOLD STAR #3: Snopes
Walter Johnson GOLD STAR #4: Armchair Subversive
Christy Mathewson GOLD STAR #5: Humanism by Joe
Cy Young's GOLD STAR #6: The American Prospect
Nap Lajoie's GOLD STAR #7: The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity
Tris Speaker's GOLD STAR #8: Rational Wiki
Pete Alexander's GOLD STAR #9: Republican Offenders
George Sisler's GOLD STAR #10: Newshounds
Willie Keeler's GOLD STAR #11: Newscorpse
Eddie Collins' GOLD STAR #12: Wikipedia
Lou Gehrig's GOLD STAR #13: FactCheck.org
Rogers Hornsly's GOLD STAR #14: Election-Projection
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Hoss Radbourne's SILVER STAR #1: FAILBlog
Cap Anson's SILVER STAR #2: Some Grey Bloke
Buck Ewing's SILVER STAR #3: Sore Thumbs
Roger Bresnahan's SILVER STAR #4: The Dictatorship.com
Dan Brouthers' SILVER STAR #5: Seanbaby's Super Friends Page
Fred Clarke's SILVER STAR #6: Item Not as Described
Jimmy Collins' SILVER STAR #7: I-am-bored.com
Ed Delahanty's SILVER STAR #8: Baseball-Reference.com
Hugh Duffy's SILVER STAR #9: Menage a 3
Hughie Jennings' SILVER STAR #10: YU&ME: Dream
King Kelly's SILVER STAR #11: Anime News Network
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Jim O'Rourke's TIN STAR : Conservapedia
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