Longtime Mingsters will recognize that it’s rare when I point anything to Slate.com. But Richard Thompson Ford eloquently describes the problem with using the Jena 6 as the protagonists in this discussion. Enjoy.

The Phil Spector jury deadlocked and a mistrial was just declared. Jerry Morris, Architectural Draftsman, sums it up best at the Onion.

“It is pretty hard to decide.  On the one hand…”

No, seriously. At least at Absolute.

Sorry, the title has nothing to do with this post. I just thought it was funny. I’m not sure who this Cafferty guy is, but his analysis of our federal election system is spot on. Soon we are going to need a new category called “Stevo is an Anti-Establishment, Crypto-Anarcho-Capitalist Crank Blowhard”.

Hip-hop fashion designer Marc Ecko paid $756k for the baseball that Barry Bonds hit for the all-time HR record. Now Ecko is asking fans to vote on what to do with the ball: donate it to the Hall of Fame as-is, brand the ball with an asterisk and then donate it, or banish it to outer space. Vote now!

Not sure? Take this test to see who you match up with best. Based on my results, I’d say this is on the up and up. Post your results as a comment, let’s see if there are any real surprises.

Awesome. Lyrics here.

I’m not going to warm up the crowd on this too much, other than this: pranked marriage proposal. At Yankee Stadium. Enjoy.

But the following is the start of the whole series, and, personally, teh cypher thinks it’s even funnier than the Yankee prank. The audio part is NSFW, so either turn it down just low enough that only you can hear it or put on the headphones or close the door or whatever. I coffee-spit this one.