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Calling all plain-speaking, fad-free teachers and other battlers against bad language: Joe Williams, guest-blogging at Eduwonk, has put together a list of pet educrat words and phrases for a new drinking game: Get out your blenders and drink up! Hat tip: Kimberly Swygert, who notes her favorites: “Differentiated instruction,” “Self-directed learning” and “Higher order thinking.” [...]

Who is it? The Discovery Channel wants you to vote. *** Reader feedback… Jonathan in Jackson notes: “I find the Discovery channel greatest American thing quite interesting. Did you notice that B. Franklin “did”, MLK “did”, Lincoln “did”, and Washington “did”, but Reagan is “credited for doing”? They’re not even trying to hide it any [...]

This will make your day.

Did you know there’s a blogger who keeps tabs on Outrageous E-bay Auctions? Hat tip: Ramblings’ Journal

It was the winning word at the National Spelling Bee. More on the Bee winner, 13-year-old Anurag Kashyap (there’s a spelling challenge), here. Spelling bee blogging… Last Rick’s Resort y-a-w-n-s. A List of Things Thrown Five Minutes Agoliveblogged. Spelling bee personal story… I was a finalist at the Atlantic County, N.J., 8th grade spelling bee. [...]

…because you might end up in The Parade of Unfortunate Star Wars Costumes. Warning: Beverage-spewing-inducing.

The Contagious Media Showdown is on. My favorite entries: Crying, while eating Blogebrity Delivr

What’s Arianna up to? Scott at SlantPoint snaps the pic. You do the rest. Update: More (animated) fun with Huff from Dan Riehl.

In Washington state, home of the never-ending gubernatorial election where every bogus vount counts, some Washington State University accounting grads sent a message to commencement speaker Democrat Gov. Christine Gregoire. Click here. Then here. And here for a wide shot. Hilarious! (Hat tip: Freepers) *** Previous: The Felon Swing Vote Breaking: GOP court win in [...]

Lovely.

Apropos of the Laura Bush post, a reader writes: “Don’t you ever laugh?” Why, yes, yes, I do. Here are ten things that made me chuckle today: 10) Hugh Hewitt exposing the WaPo’s Terry Neal 9) Frank J. on runaway brides My 18-month-old son, trying to imitate me sneeze (shwa-SHWOO!) 7) My 4 1/2-year-old daughter, [...]

Now, if we could just replace the lame Republicans on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee with these elephants, we’d get somewhere.

…at the Masters this weekend has already been immortalized in a homemade Nike commercial over at Jaffe Juice, the blog of marketing guru Joseph Jaffe. Very cool.

This was a pleasant surprise.

Okay, I never usually link to these things. But we’re huge Incredibles fans (if you haven’t seen the special DVD feature, Jack-Jack Attack, you must). So, which Incredibles character are you? I’m…Edna.

Just to lighten things up for a bit… Marshmallow Peeps! Blue Peeps pie. Make your own Peeps. Or PeepPuffs (ick). And don’t miss: Peeps Art. Update: Reader Leslie sends another favorite… The Lord of the Peeps

This is cool.

This is rully fonny.

…remember the words to the National Anthem?

As if those 50 Cent ring tones weren’t aggravating enough, here’s the latest innovation in cell phone noise: Sexy moans for mobile phones SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Adult film company New Frontier Media has something new for cell phones: ring moans. Wireless content company Brickhouse Mobile on Tuesday said that under an agreement with New [...]

Here’s one for lumpia shanghai (Filipino eggrolls), which I served to some blogger friends last weekend. They’ll make good appetizers for the game tomorrow. Enjoy: Lumpia Shanghai 1 lb. of lean ground beef 1 large carrot 1 stalk of celery 1 medium onion 1 egg 1 package of eggroll wrappers (wonton wrappers will work, too, [...]

Woody’s Blog sees a resemblance. Yikes.

Adding some needed levity, Beautiful Atrocities has the real scoop on which conservative bloggers got what from the White House. Frankly, I would have preferred the IHOP gift pass.

…for feeding him fattening Christmas cookies, the Center for Consumer Freedom cheekily suggests leaving a “Christmas Cookie Liability and Indemnification Agreement” by the tree. By signing it, Kris Kringle agrees not to sue you on the basis of: 1. your failure to provide him with nutrition information and a list of ingredients (the “Grandma’s Secret [...]

Funny, but not so funny, Steve Breen cartoon here. (Thanks to reader Judy Breck for sending.)

It’s up at Protein Wisdom. I think “shirts with bigger collars” is missing.

Agh. They won’t go away. If you have kids or are an overgrown kid, you know what I’m talking about. If you don’t, count yourself lucky. Their presence has raised the nation’s Annoyance Alert to Code Red.

Italians are currently debating a very important global issue: the politics of Nutella: “Only Italians could turn something like this into an ideological question,” said Gigi Padovani, who put the question to a group of students at the Velso Mucci Institute, a technical school for chefs and waiters in this small town in northern Italy. [...]

Left-handed, that is. (Yeah, yeah. “It’s the only thing left about me.” “Left-handed people are in their right minds.” Chortle, chortle.) Anyway, the latest left-handed news comes from the University of Montpelier: Are left-handed people nature’s way of starting a fight? Alexander the Great was one, as was Billy the Kid and John McEnroe. Now [...]

WuzzaDem does Hardball. Meanwhile, Aaron the Liberal Slayer imagines a Battle of the Blogger Babes and has designed new pieces for his famous Blogopoly board. (Do I get one?) And in Frank J.’s world, Bush cleans up the U.N. With bats.