Howard Beale, where are you when we need you? Americans say old media out of touch; turn to Internet as primary news source.

Yeah, the Wolves are playing Cleveland and possibly the best player in the league tonight, LeBron James.
What I want to talk about is that the Wolves bought out Theo Ratliff, allowing him to (probably) head to Detroit for the rest of the season. Ratliff, of course, came over to Minnesota in the KG trade, [...]

Continuing the Will Ferrell discussion two weeks later.... Ferrell's ABA flick panned by City Pages.

According to a new survey, respondents who are better-informed about global warming “both feel less personally responsible for global warming, and also show less concern for global warming.”

Traded by San Antonio to Seattle and immediately released, Barry returns to the Spurs. The NBA needs a new rule. Players that are traded and released should not be able to sign with their former team for the remainder of the season.

Sam Cassell bought out by Clippers, will he land in Boston?

Leap day!

Timberwolves buy out Theo Ratliff. He intends to sign with Detroit.

Featuring the incomparable Sandy Denny. From German television, 1970.

SportsGuy feels the pain - Sonic-style. Talk about the Grapes of Wrath. I'd like 1000 words from frightwig on this matter...

Bob Knight joins ESPN for Championship Week and NCAA Tournament. I'm thinking he won't be talking about how Team X has their game faces on.

Nobel Laureate says Iraq War and Occupation has cost the US $3 trillion so far.

S.F. homeless get free phone numbers courtesy of a program sponsored by Google. (h/t Beau)

Wittman says it was a passport problem, but he's not likely to be in Cleveland, either. He and the coach mutually agreed that if he wasn't going to play a lot, he won't even be active. The Point? Top Jimmy's continuing assertion that Walker has been a great team player. He [...]

Woman tossed into middle of Hwy. 169 during road-rage.

YouTube - Jimmy Kimmel is F@cking Ben Affleck.

Transportation Commissioner Molnau ousted.

First pitch of the year, folks -- hope springs eternal!

The Post will get a bitchin' game room. I say good for them. The wii is a lot of fun.

Life as a member of the GOP. Six Republicans voted to override the governor's veto on the transportation bill and had their committee leadership positions stripped. Party before country, or, in this case, state.

Last day of the month? Bite your tongue!

more Roger
*Edit at 4:00PM-ish - I think this is bS' original choice. Threw in Rog and Glen doin' "King of the Road" as a bonus. Couldn't find "Kansas City Star", my fave of his... E-6*

Something you want to see? Call the request line. Did you miss a video or want to watch one again from [...]

His job sucks. Where do I sign up?

Hey, hey! What a win last night for our hometown five. The T-Wolves, after a pretty crappy eight game stretch, beat a very good Utah team last night. No rest for the weary, though, as they head to the land of the Strong Dollar, Toronto. Seriously, the Canadian Dollar costs Americans [...]

Where have I heard this before?

Author, conservative commentator William F. Buckley Jr. dies at 82.

Former Vikings in, out of ESPN plans.

A controversial deal to be sure, but I post for this line: "Snow said Satan was never asked to waive the no-trade clause in his contract." I wouldn't ask him, either. (h/t Beau)

There aren't any people out in the western part of ND, but there's plenty of Texas Tea. (h/t davidwatts)

He writes how great a guy Punto is and about how heroic he was to play through an injury last year. I wish the SOB would have sat and healed for a month.

Grab a cup and sit down for a while. We've been waiting.

The other half of Uncle Tupelo. Austin City Limits, 1996. From the excellent LP Trace. The mighty Tupelo doing an acoustic version of "Whiskey Bottle", Indianapolis, 1992.
Well, I can't forget the sound because it's here to stay
The sound of people chasing money
and money
getting away
One final UT curio: their last song, Columbia, [...]

Open Culture says the best place on the web for film junkies is Greencine.com Be sure to check out the blog.

Division leading Utah comes to town tonight to face a suddenly cold Timberwolves team that's dropped seven of eight, including six of their last seven at home. After a five win January that raised the spirits of their long suffering fans, the Wolves are staring at their third two win month of the now [...]

To Hell with global warming. I find this much more disturbing. A little less than five per cent of all Danish boys are, for example, born with hypospadias, where the opening of the urethra is on the underside of the penis.
Nearly 5 percent? Are you freakin' kidding me? If this were happening in the U.S., [...]

Cassell says buyout discussions with Clippers ongoing.

Reports: Yao done for season with stress fracture in left foot. Houston has been playing lights out -- undefeated in February.

And you all thought David Lee Roth was the problem

Fransisco Liriano has been cleared to head to camp.

The driver who crashed a van into a school bus killing four children has been identified. She is a Guatemalan National and an undocumented alien. What I found curious were absolute statements that she was an illegal before anybody even knew who she was. Um, how can you be sure? It [...]

No cream or sugar, thanks.

Troy Williamson to go to Jaguars. He was the seventh overall pick, now he's going to Jacksonville for a sixth round pick. It seems like a miracle that he brought anything at all.

My organization here is a bit funny. I wanted to start by explaining how I get Harris as 20 runs better than Punto on offense over 150 games, and how I get Punto as 20 runs better than Harris on defense over 150 games, but it turned out to be perhaps the most unreadable [...]

Name that artist!

audio only, with slide show

one more for the heck of it

Something you want to see? Call the request line. Did you miss a video or want to watch one again from a while back? Click here for the SBG Music Archive.

Rips "VORPies" and gets the treatment from FJM.

I love some of the stuff these guys from Improv Everywhere have done.

Rays admit to internal discussions about signing Barry Bonds.

Nader announces candidacy for President, denies his role in ruining America.

Some scientists clearly have too much time on their hands. Walking is worse for the planet than driving your car.

If you are like me, it's a disappointment when he doesn't win.

Nice.

It's still too early to do this, because we still have a month for players to get injured, but I'm impatient.
Position Players
C - Mauer
1B - Morneau
Neither of those positions are in question provided that those guys stay healthy.
2B - Harris/Punto
These two guys are complementary players and I really hope that Gardy is willing to mix [...]

Tell me why, I don't like Mondays.

Live at Ronnie Scott's, 1966. Will edit to add/change later.

The Academy Awards are tonight, so here's an Oscar themed Preview in Blog.

Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last ditch stand of the artist. -- Marshall McLuhan
Well, friends, it's been one of those weeks that I won't soon forget.
As you know, Lucy and I lost our baby this week, or more accurately, we found out this week [...]

From Later with Jools Holland, 2006.
I chose this because it's an excellent live performance, but the video for the single is also really easy on the eyes.

It's kind of a dead spot in the sports season right now, but man, the NBA promises to be exciting come playoff time.

At Rhu-Ru's request, the "Progressive Metal" band live in Japan.
*Vid no longer available. Here's the same tune, also in Japan. Not sure if it's the same gig, er what*
Something you want to see? Call the request line. Did you miss a video or want to watch one again from a while back? [...]

As long as they're barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen. Perhaps they were concerned the boys would try to rape the ref or summat?

A brief summary of recent events:
1) Carl Crawford tells St. Petersburg Times reporters that he's glad Delmon Young and Elijah Dukes are gone because they caused distractions and made it difficult for him to focus on playing baseball:
"I just feel like it's going to be a little more peaceful this year," Crawford said. "I [...]

When the NY Times starts criticizing her management, you know she's probably nearing the end.

The NE Pats do not franchise tag Randy Moss. I hope Moss re-signs with NE, because I think he can win there. This will be interesting.

I cannot tell a lie. George Washington was born 276 years ago today.

Bene, Benny. thanks to davidwatts. from the film Hollywood Hotel in 1937. Gene Krupa on the drums.

According to this piece, this song played an important role in the emergence of "hot jazz" and the Swing Era. I'm no jazz historian. 'wig, you got any commentary?
Here is a link to the All Things Considered story [...]

I was looking through some of baseball-reference.com's minor league numbers today and noticed that Twins' farmhand Jonathan Goncalves hit .238/.351/.291 in CF for the DSL Twins. I thought, hmmm, that's odd, a Twins' farmhand who walks a lot. (Yes, this is a broad and possibly unfair statement, whatever.)
Then I looked at how the [...]

This is perhaps the lamest excuse for a "science" article I've seen in years. Dude uses a poisson model to "predict" no-hitters and cycles. Check out the links too!

Gurls rool the web

Old number 21 is coming to town, except this guy isn't the #21 we're used to see play night after night in Minneapolis, this is the guy we've seen collect four rings over the last 10 or so years.
There's a lot to like about Tim Duncan's game, and saying that is almost damning him with [...]

In: Ben Wallace, Joe Smith, Wally Szczerbiak, Delonte West, Bulls '09 2nd-rd pick
Out: Larry Hughes, Drew Gooden, Cedric Simmons, Shannon Brown, Ira Newble, Donyell Marshall

Wolves get Kirk Snyder, 2nd Round Pick. Snyder has played 5 minutes in 2008.

NFL: Churches can show Super Bowl telecast.

So, that worked out well.

Gary Sheffield is in a dispute with Scott Boras.

All work and no play makes Scott Kerkmans hammered.

Beans.

Newport Jazz Festival, 1958. From the film, Jazz on a Summer's Day.
Her sense of time, phrasing and modulation, and the way she works the microphone, is on fantastic display here. A classic performance, and the audience shots are about as priceless.

Ms. Iseman.

As discussed here earlier today, here is Clinton's (new) Blueprint.

Yeah, this won't end poorly at all.

I hope everyone has finished lunch.
Yikes!

I am outraged. Since when is Blue Moon an imported beer?
Just another media attempt to smear Hillary. It's a conspiracy, I tell you.

In less than six weeks, we'll be watching MLB for real. Remember that while you brave the cold.

Because some of the younger citizens wondered where the "heavy modern rock" was. Rated M for (major-league) glorification of drugs. Sydney, Australia, 2003. (Padre, you'll wanna skip this one.)

(This was in the queue before I noticed that Kyle had requested Kyuss, featuring a young Josh Homme -- the QOTSA frontman -- on guitar. 1995. "Supa [...]

From the ESPN story titled "Twins not deflated despite the losses of Hunter and Santana" -
In the span of less than two months, the Twins lost arguably their best player and inarguably their best leader when Torii Hunter bolted via free agency and signed with the Los Angeles Angels...
I'll take that argument.

Anthropologist argues ancient Egyptians had brand-name products

When Lucy told me a while back that she was pregnant again, my first reaction was, man, I have a lot of work to do. I need to clear my office out of that last bedroom, move BabySBG's stuff into the guest room and move the guest room down into what was the office. [...]

For Will: My takeaway from reading the comments at the Strib Baseball Blogs mirrors this new book.

Better late than never, right? GreekHouse and I had a conversation about the Wolves via e-mail regarding the Wolves first half of the season. Then, we scrapped it when they started to play better and started over. By the time we got this done, they stopped playing better. Heh. Anyway, [...]