2000 labels - is that a lot?

And today we could really use a "brain-dead Norwegians" label.

I deleted "Alfonsucko SUCKS" but it won't let me create "Alfonsucko the 12-fingered freak SUCKS." I don't see how the work of the Nation can move forward.

This appears to be a new feature?

hiney birds in the news

News item: "The buzz in the press boxes is that Mr. Mariotti is going to work at the Chicago Tribune in some capacity. Since Tribune officials are declining to comment on the matter, you know something is in the works."
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LoC Fun Facts

Some time in the last few days, LoC rolled out it's 2000th label. Currently there are 2006, including today's newest: The Dumbshine State. In a Word document in 8-point font, the list is 35 pages long.

with a shout-out to Brain Dead Bob - what this blog is about

Either nothing, or everything, depending on your perspective.

LoC posters - you are hereby relieved from jury duty for the rest of your natural lives

News item: As personal information becomes more widely available on blogs, MySpace, Facebook and other social networking Web sites, the Internet has become an important tool for jury consultants and trial lawyers. Such sites are a treasure trove of information about potential and seated jurors that can be used in picking the right jurors, bouncing potential jurors and even influencing jurors during trial and in closing arguments. Jury consultants have begun turning to private investigators, some of whom have started niche businesses offering Internet jury research and "personality profiling" of jurors.

People - we need to do something with this:

Go here and you can leave comments and accumulate points to redeem for John McCain merchandise!

Basically, go around and seed blogs with comments following talking points from John McCain and then go and report them. Somebody will check it out, verify it, and then you get some points. Get enough points and you get a book that John McCain "wrote" - autographed. Or some other such bauble of love.

I'm going to leave a post over for Brain Dead Bob as well - letting him know he might be able to get an autographed hunting rifle or something....maybe this if you're really lucky!

LoC Top 40 - An Occasional Survey (cont'd)

1. stooooooopid (139)
2. FULLA$#i+ (115)
3. Bushian (99)
4. totally phokked (93)
5. that's so America (88)
6. we are living in a golden age (cont'd) (87)
7. SHOCKING (79)
8. bad ideas (77)
8. expect delays (77)
10. s#i+ blowing up (68)
11. whitey keeping darky down (cont) (65)
12. he SUCKS (60)
13. brain-dead managers (58)
14. weather (whining about) (56)
15. Idiocracy (54)
16. brain-dead GMs (53)
16. move along - nothing to see here (53)
18. moron (50)
19. adventures in plutocracy (48)
20. Cub (that is so) (47)
20. Dumbya (47)
20. rezzziDUNCE (47)
23. brain-dead Americans (46)
23. offered without comment (46)
23. they SUCK (46)
26. s#i+ for brainz (43)
27. America-hating "Americans" hating America (42)
27. how does k-mad do it (cont'd)? (42)
29. Da City Dat Works (40)
29. fightin' phils (40)
31. Dick "Dick" (Dick) Dick Cheney (39)
32. End Times (will they hurry up already?) (38)
32. improbable things (38)
32. zzzzzzzzzz........... (38)
35. America: bacon to the world... mmmm bacon... (36)
35. McCain: unhinged (36)
37. Ozzie Guillen (35)
37. World's Awfulest "Newspaper" (tie) (35)
39. ASSHOLE (34)
39. HOLY PHOKKING S#I+ WE'RE SO PHOKKED (34)
39. Internets (34)
39. the end times? (34)

LoC editor writes a message for McCranky on the bathroom wall

And the message is, go phokk yourself...

Obama set the tone early on the trip, stepping on a basketball court before a cheering crowd of U.S. troops and calmly nailing a 3-point shot.

'BAD WEEK' FOR REPUBLICANS

"As soon as he hit that 3-pointer, I knew it was going to be a bad week," Republican consultant Joe Gaylord said... (Suck on it... Ed.)

But McCain's aides fumed at the heavy media attention on Obama and struggled to compete. Weather scuttled McCain's plan to fly to an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico to highlight his drilling proposals, and one cable network cut away from his New Hampshire town hall to report the rescue of an injured bear cub in California. (Funny! Ed.)

Will we make dis list?

http://blogs.trb.com/news/local/chicagosbestblogs/

Or do we not count since we have members outside the area?

"libarry?"

Does KO read LoC? Well if so... you and Rachel are awesome.

This is not the Google we knew

Librarians Accuse Google of Using and Discarding Them

Is Google casting aside the library community? That’s the recent conclusion of some librarians. The giant technology company once courted librarians to back its controversial project that digitizes books from academic libraries and makes all or parts of the texts available online. Now it seems Google no longer needs them, the librarians say.

Steven M. Cohen, a senior librarian at Law Library Management Inc., notes on his blog that Google last updated its “Librarian Central” blog a year ago. And he and Roy Tennant, a librarian with the Online Computer Library Center, say that, atypically, Google wasn’t present at the American Library Association’s annual conference last month, even though it was held in Anaheim, Calif. “only one short plane ride away from the Googleplex” also in California, writes Mr. Tennant.

“So, Google will continue to use librarians, scan their books, profit from it, and then leave us in the information dust to rot like an old microfilm machine,” writes Mr. Cohen. “It’s sad really. But then again, we fell for it.”

Most Used Labels (updated)

stooooooopid (132)
FULLA$#i+ (110)
totally phokked (93)
Bushian (90)
that's so America (87)
we are living in a golden age (cont'd) (83)
expect delays (75)
SHOCKING (74)
bad ideas (73)
s#i+ blowing up (68)
whitey keeping darky down (cont) (64)
he SUCKS (59)

The top 5 remain the same, with we are living in a golden age (cont) shooting up two spots, and bad ideas falling 3 spots. The 12 above were the top 12 before, so we need to start rooting for some of the lower ones. I'm rooting for Idiocracy myself, with Fung needs a suga mommie a close second.

We also perhaps need an analysis grouping some of the similar ones together - like the brain-dead's and the how to suck at and the whitey/darky ones. Also the ones that have one of us mentioned - though I think K-Mad destroys us there.

Well, off to the Florian...

I say we keep it that way

Like I really give a s#i+ about what our "readers" would think anyway.

Top 25 LoC labels

# stooooooopid (121)
# FULLA$#i+ (107)
# totally phokked (91)
# Bushian (80)
# that's so America (77)
# bad ideas (71)
# expect delays (69)
# we are living in a golden age (cont'd) (68)
# s#i+ blowing up (64)
# SHOCKING (62)
# whitey keeping darky down (cont) (58)
# he SUCKS (57)
# brain-dead managers (55)
# weather (whining about) (54)
# Cub (that is so) (47)
# brain-dead GMs (47)
# Idiocracy (46)
# moron (46)
# move along - nothing to see here (45)
# Dumbya (44)
# they SUCK (42)
# brain-dead Americans (41)
# rezzziDUNCE (40)
# s#i+ for brainz (40)
# fightin' phils (39)

don't drink and blog

Michael Tunison writes under the pseudonym Christmas Ape at the blog Kissing Suzy Kolber. He also writes under his own name at the Washington Post.

Or at least he did, until he was fired by the Post for what he's written at the blog. Tunison says the Post told him he violated Post standards and discredited the paper by writing a blog post in which he identified himself as a Washington Post writer, linked to the paper three times, included a photo of himself drunk (above) and used profanity.

Should I blow this thing up?

i was expecting pre-school

The Blog Readability Test at www.criticsrant.com/bb/reading_level.aspx allows you to test automatically any Internet site for the level of education it appeals to. A few test results:

• • The American Decency Association at www.americandecency.org: "Junior high school."
• • Fox News at www.foxnews.com: "High school."
• • The Politico at www.politico.com: "College."
• • QT at www.suntimes.com: "Genius."

And it doesn't look like we would fly at Saginaw State, especially Fung:

Speech Code of the Month at the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education at www.thefire.org:

Saginaw State University forbids the telling of any jokes that may involve "race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, age, marital or familial status, color, height, weight, handicap or disability."

And which one most applies here:

QT Two Internet Headlines that Fairly Well Sum Up the Internet (cont'd):

• • "Seven wonders of the cosmos."

• • "What's currently annoying me."

Meanwhile, it looks like QT was behind the times on this one...we broke dis story months ago:

Movie Mistakes at www.moviemistakes.com still lists zero mistakes for the 2006 movie "Idiocracy."

That is because it is the perfect movie that explains everything.

Have you rented it yet?

And...

Famous people who died on your birthday at www.justsayhi.com/bb/death

Who can top: George Burns, Charles Bukowski, Menachem Begin, Robert Mapplethorpe, and The Notorious B.I.G.?

Karl Rove reads LoC?

Rove Decries ‘Nutty’ ‘Vitriolic’ Bloggers Who Spew ‘Bad Words’

It's official: everyone on earth has a blog

Chan Ho Park says on his weblog that he's signed a minor league deal with the Dodgers. Park, 34, made one start for the Mets last season, giving up seven runs in four innings. He had a 5.97 ERA in 24 Triple-A starts between New Orleans and Round Rock. He'll be a long shot to make the Dodgers.

And, praise Jesus, who could forget:

http://www.cjbaseball.com/

Now appearing Japan...

in which category were we ripped off?

Best Whining About the Weather Blog? Best Bush-Hating Blog? Best End Times Blog? Best Baseball Blog? Most Rambling, Inane Blog? The possibilities are endless (though I can only think of these five).

The 2007 Weblog Awards