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I’m no fan of the Prius, but seriously:

Forbes – Toyota Hybrid Horror Hoax, by Michael Fumento

Also, check out the Ken Doll byline headshot on this guy. Yeesh.

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WaPo – IOC failing in its responsibility to the Olympics, by Sally Jenkins

As the Vancouver Games come to a close, International Olympic Committee President Jacques Rogge will call them a success. But it’s the IOC — so incubated in blue blazers, five-star accommodations, and shellfish buffets — that requires real assessment. Exactly what [...]

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Telegraph – Canadian women’s ice hockey team apologise for beer and cigars on ice The all-conquering Canadian women’s ice hockey team has apologised after players celebrated winning Olympic gold by quaffing champagne and beer, and smoking cigars, on the ice.

Victorious players emerged from the dressing room, still in their uniforms and with gold medals [...]

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National Post:

The Winter Games in particular are a hotbed of weirdness. You say that not enough women play hockey internationally to make it legitimate? How about the sport of nordic combined, in which participants both cross-country ski and ski jump? Are there leagues devoted to the pursuit of such an odd combination of [...]

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A golden (get it?!) oldie from Mark Steyn, from New Criterion, September, 2007:

The same networks which offer drearily parochial coverage of the Olympics to the point where you’d barely know there were any other countries competing except as exotic background extras in a Team USA victory parade insist after the commercial break that [...]

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I was about to make a crack yesterday that, apparently, nobody in the MSM has ever been near drugs or alcohol, because nobody got what Tiger Woods was doing yesterday. It was obvious when he announced the press conference he’s in a 12 step program (and he even referenced it in his speech), because the [...]

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This is our spreadsheet:

It is slightly incomplete (Peter just added the fuel tank field and as you can see the warranty information is a little tricky to find) but last night he announced that he cannot for the life of him think of a car he missed. Yellow are so far the ones that are [...]

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Autoblog – Gilles: Fiat 500 on sale in U.S. by the end of 2010

ninme gathers together all of her credit cards sells all her clothes, books and hair in preparation

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Old Spice: The Man Your Man Could Smell Like

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Italy’s common-sense legislation of the day (that was originally intended to be the title of this entry but I opted to go for the lame pun instead (standards, you know)):

Telegraph – Italy to jail people who set off avalanches Skiers and snowboarders who set off deadly avalanches in Italy could face imprisonment and hefty fines under [...]

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…Does this new outrage mean that feminists don’t think women should be allowed to play football?

NOW president Terry O’Neill said it glorified violence against women. “I am blown away at the celebration of the violence against women in it,” she said. “That’s what comes across to me even more strongly than the [...]

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A little Super Bowl ads warm-up:

Audi 2010 Green Car Super Bowl Commercial

I love Audi.

And yes, that is the car I want.

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And lookit what’s been published in the Washington Post: Tebow’s Super Bowl ad isn’t intolerant; its critics are

I’m pro-choice, and Tebow clearly is not. But based on what I’ve heard in the past week, I’ll take his side against the group-think, elitism and condescension of the “National Organization of Fewer and Fewer Women [...]

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This is awesome: BBC Sport – 2010 Winter Olympics Inuit Animation

It almost makes me wish I had cable so I could watch on the CBC instead of *spit* NBC *spit spit*.

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I’ve been scrupulously avoiding this story because I find it so utterly, utterly sad. The day after Thanksgiving, at home, I was driving Peter and the bebe up to Menlo Park to do some shopping and, on Foothill, drove past the Stanford Golf Club and said, “Look! That’s where Tiger Woods used to go to [...]

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