I’m working on a project for Holy Moly; I got rooked into finding all the readings for the upcoming Day of Pentecost in a bunch of different languages. Including Thai… not sure why since I don’t know of anyone there who speaks the language, but maybe someone is inviting a friend. I was playing around trying to pronounce the reading in Maori, kind of in the style of the All Blacks doing the haka, when David sent me this picture. Beautiful. I needed a good laugh. I’ve been at this for a while and I needed a break.

Newly graduating law students, take note: double check the email address of that friend of yours that already has a job in a legal firm before sending them a rant about your impending job search. Reinder Eekhof, a freshly minted lawyer, recently wrote in an e-mail that he had “finally finished this stupid education,” and was “now looking for someone crazy enough to dump a suitcase full of money in my lap every month.” The e-mail was meant for a friend at the Houthoff Buruma law firm. But Eekhof mistyped the address and his missive landed in the inbox of…

Every picture tells a story – either Putin just offered to play a friendly game of “Global Thermonuclear Conflict” with Condi, or the death rays in his eyes are about to pop her head like a giant, well-coiffed kernel of Iowa popcorn. Or maybe he’s thinking “you look all hot in that little ice-skating outfit, Conduszhka.” As Pops commented later, “That sort of a specific desire is exactly the reason why Jesus invented PhotoShop.” From Pops’ Bucket via TBogg.

The Nation | Special Cover | Worry, Alfred Dubya Heh. Okay, I’m done licking my political wounds. Time to laugh again. And what better place to start? Apparently, this image can be downloaded, printed off, and posted wherever you think it would show off to best advantage.

I just bought this and now I must wait several days for the arrival. You must visit Manolo’s Shoe Blog to understand the super-fantastic fashion item that I await. Also it is the WordPress blog that Manolo is now writing and not Blogger so very much “kudos to Manolo” for making the fashion-forward leap of Internet savvy. You can find it and much more of great style and humor at Manolo Loves the Shoes! : CafePress.com and of course you must find the original love of the Manolo in the things he says of those things that are of the…

Local NPR station WBEZ is having a spring pledge drive today, which is apparently no joke. Local “listener supported” rock station WXRT is also having a pledge drive. XRT’s pledge drive is definitely more entertaining, but I do hope that BEZ’s is successful. 😉

AKMA wonders: If there ever was a story destined to ornament the weekend NPR news quiz, this must be it. Margaret has been sending me snippets (“ ‘Our insides were just bubbling,’ said Darlene Turner”) and updates all morning. She wonders, does Accordion Guy have a line on this one? More to the point, is humorist, WWDTM panelist and blogger Adam Felber even now working on making this story just ridiculous enough to fool a contestant into thinking it’s a ringer during the “fake news” segment? I’m just bubbling inside thinking about it.

Today, so many have popped up – pledging support of everything from people with diabetes to victims of the Asian tsunami – that some find the trend laughable. “Putting a ribbon magnet on your car is an empty gesture,” said Jay Barnes, the author of AntiMagnet, a Web site devoted to ridiculing the trend. “It’s prepackaged sentiment for a profit.'” Jeff Poirier joined with friends to launch Support Our Ribbons, which offers magnets displaying messages such as “Support Our Ribbons,” “I Support More Troops Than You,” and “One Nation Under Ribbons.” “Ribbons support many causes,” said Poirier, 25. “Isn’t it…