I’ll admit, this one actually registered for me. This guy was one of the most resilient athletes I’ve ever seen. He would routinely put his team on his shoulders, taking over the entire offense, and would absorb endless beatings to do it.

As a draftee in 1995, McNair was known as a wildly talented athlete. Over the next 13 years of pro-ball we learned that he was, more importantly, a determined and courageous individual.

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Ok, this is probably borderline NSFW, but it’s too damn funny to pass up. Via cartoonist, Dan Meth.

Last week, I guest hosted an episode of We’ll Fix It In Post. If you like nerdy discussions of different types of cinematic time travel, this episode is for you. There was also some eating of disgusting candies for novelty’s sake — a feat first unleashed in this earlier episode…

Christopher Duncan of Copiague, NY is thanking his lucky stars that he was born a white, rich, child. This week, his lucky accident of birth earned him a free pass in a federal drug court that fell all over itself to spare him the humiliation of going to prison for knowingly breaking the law.

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Things got somewhat supernatural on the Colbert Report this week when the rampaging spirit of Jeff Goldblum burst on air to declare that he hadn’t yet shuffled off the mortal coil, despite his death being reported by multiple Twits.

Before it settled on being a purveyor of celebrity gossip news and a Reality TV Wasteland, MTV used to have an innovative animation lineup, including a short series called MTV’s Oddities. One such Oddity cartoon, The Maxx, told the story of a delusional, purple, homeless, superhero.

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For those of you who are musically inclined…

The Modesto Bee told a heart-wrenching story last weekend of a young Tijuana meth dealer named Hector Rodriguez Estrada, who was killed in cold blood along with his pregnant girlfriend, by a rival gang attempting to seize his drug turf. The story gives a face to the deteriorating social system in many parts of Mexico, in which cities are morphing into nothing more than shooting galleries between rival cartels.

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Arizona plans to allow concealed guns in bars. NRAers rejoice!

Yes, it’s true.  If there’s anything more charming than drunk people beating each other up, it’s drunk people blowing each other away.

Nice work, Arizona.  Next up: allowing people to carry lit candles into gas storage facilities.  It’s just common sense, right?

FedEx vs UPS in a future extrapolation of today’s shrinking consumer market. In space, customers are hard to come by…

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