Erik Wilson forwards this odd story about naked-women paintball in Las Vegas:

Burdick says hunters are told not to shoot the women above the chest, but he admits not all hunters follow the rules. “The main goal is to be as true to nature as possible. I don’t go deer hunting and see a deer with a football helmet on so I don’t want to see one on my girl either,” said Burdick.

As Erik says, “I swear, Las Vegas has to be the real Center of the Universe, or maybe the Eye of Sauron. Or something. Yikes!!”

Against whatever amounts to my better judgement, I bought McDonald’s for lunch today. On the outside of the bag, along with the question “Are you Mac Enough?” (answered with “You bet your seasame seed bun!”), there’s this inane bit of copy:

You know those fries that wind up at the bottom of the bag? What do you call those? Do you eat them first? Like an appetizer? Or maybe you eat them last. That way, you can say, “Oh, man, I’m all out of fries. WAIT — no I’m not!” That is a sweet feeling, my friend. Or maybe they’re the ones you let yourself eat in the car on your way back from a McDonald’s run for your buddies. Since they fell out of their box, no one can claim ownership. They’re public domain. Go for it.

I bring this up not to shill for the Golden Arches, but because I think it’s helpful to remember that, no matter how stupid or inept or insulting an advertisement may appear to be, chances are someone spent a great deal of time working on it. What you see above probably went through many, many drafts until it represented the absolute best its writers could dream up and exactly the image the company wanted to convey.

I don’t know about you, but I find that more than just a little bit frightening.

I haven’t seen the film (and don’t have any immediate plans to, having heard nothing but bad things), but I thought this caption was cute:

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Behold, the record amount of “suspension of disbelief” needed to enjoy LXG.

More captioning goodness here.

I don’t know if there’s anything to it, or if it’s worth noting, but it’s an interesting contrast: two of CNN’s online polls (the one on the front page and the one on the page for Wolf Blitzer Reports) are about the President’s case for war against Iraq, whether that case has been weakend by recent allegations and evidence, or whether Bush deliberately lied in his State of the Union address, respectively.

The Fox News online poll, on the other hand, is on whether or not couples should draw up prenuptial agreements.