Happy Monday

(A 2-year-old pug named Bentley competes in the fourth annual Helen Woodward Animal Center Surf Dog Surf-A-Thon in Del Mar, Calif.)

May your Monday be as happy as this dog looks.

Cartoons of the Week

Cartoons of the Week

Picture of the Week

(President Barack Obama poses with speechwriter Cody Keenan, dressed as a pirate, for an Oval Office photo shot for use in the President's speech to the White House Correspondents Association dinner. "But as I said during the campaign, we can't just talk to our friends. As hard as it is, we also have to talk to our enemies, and I've begun to do exactly that" the President said in his speech.)

At first you think its a photo shopped image. But, alas, no....

Pimp My Logo

The NFLs worst team, the Lions, unveiled a new, more hard-core version of their logo last week.

ESPNs page two has some fun with the concept:

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(Hat Tip: Rich O.)

A Gift For Your Nightmares

From our friends at Oddee.com:

Perhaps we would never --or rarely-- have heard of such a creature if it was not because of the tales and photos the United States Servicemen in the Persian Gulf War and afterwards the Iraq War carried back home. It was said that a giant camel spider crawled into the sleeping bag of a soldier, biting the man while he was asleep. Fortunately, the giant desert camel spiders native to Iraq aren't venomous. It uses its claws to catch its prey, which is never bigger than the arachnid itself. They are also known for being fast. Giant Camel Spiders have been known to run around 10 MPH. This creature real name is Arachnid Solifugae. "Solifugae" means, in Latin, "flee from the sun".

A giant spider that runs 10-MPH??? That would be ehough to send me AWOL....

More Man Than I....

(A competitor runs through fire during the Tough Guy Challenge 2009 in England. The biannual event, which raises cash for charity, challenges thousands of international competitors to run through a grueling set of 21 obstacles including water, fire and tunnels.)

Happy Monday

At least this has never happened to you:



More incredible ice-cream stealing birds here.

Barack-tion Figure

Leave it to the Japanese. I gotta get me one....

Mr. Patriotic:



Mr. Shaft:



And my favorite....

Mr. Skywalker:



I had a Star Wars post this week and many Obama posts, and now I've found a way to marry the two. Didn't see that one commin', did ya?

Check out other poses here.

Oh, the horror...

(A skier at Colorado's ritzy Vail resort was left dangling upside down and pants-less from a chairlift last Friday morning.)

I'm sure when this gentleman got up Friday, this was the last thing he thought would happen to him. More pictures here, and here.

Top Mug Shots of 2008

(same guy. before and after)

The Smoking Gun presents their top 20 mug shots of 2008. Their staff of three people combed through tens of thousands of these things. And there are some doosies....

Top This

Next time you use the words "i can't" in a sentence, think of this picture and then ask yourself if you have truly exhausted all options: