Cuppabits October 16th

Fitting for the month, a snuff film for a pumpkin —

I didn’t embed it because it’s pretty much what you’d expect. I did like the view from the inside of the pumpkin when… er, better not spoil things.

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Madonna adopts poor starving African orphan — er, wait, not an orphan. Kid has parents. Daddy says “That’s My Baby!” Madonna doesn’t listen, she wants a baby, and she’s Madonna, damnit! link to father’s story

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Mark Foley escapes “rehab” in Florida, seen in Austin, TX at a musical performance. [link via Wonkette] Apparently, alcohol can cure his alcoholism. Is there anything alcohol can’t do?

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Minutes before the Hawaiian earthquakes started, fish in a lagoon started jumping out like they were being jolted by electric shock. [link]

Fish everywhere else around Hawaii want to know how those fish knew first!

Sorry Charlie!

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Say you play games in these “virtual worlds” and you are to the point of trading virtual goods for real world money. As much as a half a million real world dollars might exchange hands every day in some virtual games. Does the tax man know this is going on? Yes! Will the tax man come after you? Not yet. Should you be scared? Only in a virtual way. [link]

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I still don’t listen to Howard Stern, but his satillite show can be heard on the internet for free later this month. It’s a stunt to get more listeners and to get people to pay for the internet version of the satillite service. [link]

And yes, it costs more to get the pay for service WITHOUT Howard.

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Are kids on MySpace? Sure. Do you think sex offenders have noticed? Oh, my yes!
Is there any way of catching these guys? Well, maybe.

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McDonald’s in Japan gave away MP3 players as a prize. Too bad they were loaded with spyware!

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A cartoon about Hillary’s Baggage!

From the Dem Party to Hillary:
What’cha gonna do with all that junk?
All that junk inside your trunk?

Sound encouraged, not req’d. (subtitled)

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Baseball: The Mets started a pitcher last night with a season win-loss record of what?? I don’t know what it was, but it set a record for the worst record for any pitcher to start a game in the National League Playoff Series. What could be worse than that? Oh, yeah, having the opposing team’s bullpen blow up. Mets win anyway. This is why you play the game.

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Desperate Housewives: I did laugh at # Kyle MacLachlan’s character when he explained to his wife Bree about what their son did when he was away from home. When Kyle’s character made the crack about the “different team” I did a spit take! I wish I knew the exact line there.

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And finally, The Fools On The Hill: RadarOnline has the Ten Dumbest Congressmen (Why did they limit it to just ten?)

* 10. Sen Jim Bunning (R-KY)
* 9. Rep Patrick Kennedy (D-RI)
* 8. Sen Conrad Burns (R-MT)
* 7. Rep Cynthia McKinney (D-GA)
* 6. Rep Jean Schmidt (R-Ohio)
* 5. Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA)
* 4. Rep. JD Hayworth (R-Ariz.)
* 3. Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.)
* 2. Rep. Donald Young (R-AK)
* 1. Rep. Katherine Harris (R-Fla.)

Some highlights:

8. Sen Conrad Burns (R-MT)
Casting his myopic gaze toward terrorism this summer, Burns offered a helpful clue to law enforcement officials: Be wary of “faceless” Arabs who “drive taxicabs by day and kill at night.”

7. Rep Cynthia McKinney (D-GA)
…At her concession speech in August, when a staffer was inadvertently struck by a microphone, McKinney supporters not only beat up the reporters on hand, they hurled gems like: “You know what led to this loss? Israel … Zionists! Put your yarmulke on your head and celebrate.”

6.Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA)
“Those who survived the San Francisco earthquake said, ‘Thank God I’m still alive.’ But of course those who died, their lives will never be the same again.”

3. Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.)
Inhofe assured Senate colleagues of his own virility and that of his manly forbearers. “My wife and I have been married 47 years. We have 20 kids and grandkids. I’m really proud to say that in the recorded history of our family, we’ve never had a divorce or a homosexual relationship.”

1. Rep. Katherine Harris (R-Fla.)
If dumb Congress members were the X-Men, Harris would be their Wolverine�a mutant possessing fearsome skills, the product of a demented government experiment gone horribly wrong.
Running for re-election in 2004, she told voters in Venice, Florida, that a “Middle Eastern” man had been arrested for trying to blow up the power grid of Carmel, Indiana. Neither the mayor of Carmel nor the governor of Indiana�nor anyone else acquainted with reality�had any idea what Harris was talking about.
At one point, Harris’s battered staffers tested her by submitting a two-month old speech she had written herself: She pronounced it “terrible.”

Ahh, I love the smell of burning Congressional campaigns in the morning!