Apparently there's a tiny invisible monkey on my back that enjoys reading.

I'm currently reading Fight Club, by Chuck Palaniuk and Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency, by Douglas Adams. Both good, but one really messes with your head and the other just makes me laugh.

The US women’s soccer team just scored in overtime, there’s five minutes left and it looks like we may win it all.

That one thing that’s great about the Olympics, it gives all Americans a chance to band together as we say “Our country’s better than yours!” Isn’t it great?

And thanks to The Dialectizer here’s the preamble to the Communist Manifesto as read by Elmer Fudd:

A spectwe is haunting Euwope -- the spectwe of communism. Aww the powews of owd Euwope have entewed into a howy awwiance to exowcise this spectwe: Pope and Tsaw, Mettewnich and Guizot, Fwench Wadicaws and Gewman powice-spies.

Oh, dat scwewy wabbit! Whewe is the pawty in opposition that has not been decwied as communistic by its opponents in powew? Whewe is the opposition that has not huwwed back the bwanding wepwoach of communism, against the mowe advanced opposition pawties, as weww as against its weactionawy advewsawies?

Two things wesuwt fwom this fact:

I. Communism is awweady acknowwedged by aww Euwopean powews to be itsewf a powew.

II. It is high time that Communists shouwd openwy, in the face of the whowe wowwd, pubwish theiw views, theiw aims, theiw tendencies, and meet this nuwsewy tawe of the spectwe of communism wif a manifesto of the pawty itsewf.