Easy Joke Department 2

Joe Paterno Dead: Former PSU Star Lydell Mitchell Says, 'We Won't Let Joe's Legacy Die'

"The next time we hear about someone who works for us sexually abusing children, in what is virtually the church of our religion, we won't do the right thing about that either!"

In my case, BOY is that a loaded question...

Move On sent around an email today with the subject line:

Do you trust women?

I don't know why, but this photo really works for me.

I mean it shouldn't, individual-elements-wise-speaking...

Goldie, Shields and slides

Okay, it's time to double down on the geekdom.

You know how things go around sometimes with comic book fans picking who they'd want to see play this character or another in a movie, if it were up to them? (The kind of thing where they would say for instance, "Ryan Reynolds! He would make a good Hal Jordan!" Except that no one ever said that. No one.)

But anyway, I happened to come across a page which took that idea a little further:

Not who would the poster like to see playing these characters now, but who would they have liked to have seen? If a film had been made when the characters were at their hottest?

In this case, those characters are the Teen Titans, which makes the time at which they were hottest the '80s (for the most part. One or two peaked in the '60s). So you know I'm all over this. Here's a few characters they missed along with my period choices for them.

Brooke Shields and Kim Basinger as Hawk & Dove (Holly & Dawn Granger version).







Christopher Atkins as Jericho.

(It would've been the perfect role. He wouldn't have had to talk.)



Kristy McNichol as Terra.



Mario Lopez and Kate Hudson...



(This is the one and only time I'm likely to run a picture like this, so drink in, ladies)



... as Aqualad and Aquagirl



Timothy Hutton...



...as Zachary Zatanna.



Elizabeth McGovern...



as M'gann M'orzz [Miss Martian]

and Dinah Manoff as Supergirl.

Shia LaBeouf



as the Jason Todd Robin. (Nothing personal, Shia)

Adam Baldwin



...as the Dick Grayson Batman, and Chris Makepeace

As Damian Wayne.

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P092911PS-0344, a photo by The White House on Flickr.

Hmmm, again.

My observations about actors whose TV shows go bad after they leave them, even though I wouldn't have expected it at the time, are being sent around again. This time it's the one about Elisha Cuthbert.

He...didn't...WHAT?

Former Penn State coach Joe Paterno says he “didn’t know which way to go” after an assistant coach came to him in 2002 saying he had seen retired defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky sexually abusing a boy

Y'know...I understand that a lot of football players get brain damage. But I didn't realize it was true of coaches too. "Didn't know which way to go," for the love of god. Creatures living on the bottom of the sea would've known which way to go. Of course, they probably didn't need Sandusky for their all-important team...

God, I loathe this culture.

Super Bowl Viewers Will See Graphic Anti-Abortion Ads With Pictures Of Bloody Fetuses

The ads are being paid for by fringe anti-abortion candidate Randall Terry

This is obvious, yes, but it needs to be said: Would somebody like to tell me what the controversy over Janet Jackson's (barely) exposed breast was all about?

Do you realize that this year, the three biggest football stories are:

Jerry Sandusky rapes children (and BTW, just as an aside: Did you know Sandusky had published an autobiography called...“Touched"? I know. Just when you think it can't get any creepier.)

Gory anti-choice ads to be shown on the super bowl.

And Tim Tebow apparently can't play very well, but it's okay 'cause he's a good Christian... who may have won a game with an illegal touchdown.

This is all reminding me that Friday Night Lights, much as I loved it...was fiction.