We hear you, buddy

Sergey Brin, cofounder of the Google:

Speaking at the TED Conference today in Long Beach, Calif., Brin told the audience that smartphones are "emasculating." "You're standing around and just rubbing this featureless piece of glass," he said.

From CNET via TPM.

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Creating Tomorrow's Lackeys Today

Seen on a t-shirt at a recent youth sports competition: "If at first you don't succeed...Try doing what your COACH told you the first time."

All caps in the original, wouldn't you know.

Lagomorph menace

Securing our borders includes protecting our international airport parking lots from all threats, external and internal.

"[T]he perpetrators are easily identified by the fur and pellets left behind."

Good writing, good examples

James Wagner, President of Emory University.
The topic: Compromise and that more perfect union.
The example: The 3/5 Compromise.
The result: "No, wait, let me explain!"

Via.

First the pontifex, now the suplex

I don't know what this world is coming to.  The IOC has dropped wrestling from its list of 25 core sports for 2020, and now wrestling will have to get in line with other supplicants—behind wakeboarding but in front of wushu—if it wants to reclaim its place.

Maybe the international wrestlings powers that be should just go all in with the beach variety.

To spend more time with his family

Or something.

"I'll see you all on Twitter!"

Ballon d'Or, Smoking d'Orbe

Tough luck, Cristiano Ronaldo. Next time pick a better suit.

It's twelves all the way up and twelves all the way down

Twelve minutes after twelve o'clock on the twelfth day of the twelfth month of the twelfth year.

I guess this would be the appropriate time to say something disparaging about your mother.