Scott, on the anti-war "fringe" in America:

"If your fringed shawl is 30% shawl and 70% fringe, chances are it’s not really a fringed shawl, but a regular shawl that’s just really badly unraveling."

A very special Marvel Team-Up: Spider-Man and Planned Parenthood.

And it's from the 1970s. How far we've come...?

Today's Tidbit Of Funny comes via a coworker.

"Over the weekend I was having a political discussion with my sister. We covered a lot of ground, including touching on the subject of the Federal Marriage Amendment and the potential for bicameral support for it (and similar amendments).

My nephew (age 7) was in the room playing a videogame during our discussion. My sister got up to go make dinner. My nephew paused his game, looked around very carefully, and then asked me softly,

'Aunt Anna, if all those people in Congress are bicameral, why do they want to ban gay marriage?'"

Kids can be so unintentionally insightful, can't they?

Start spreading the news:

I'll be visiting the family in MN--and hopefully some friends, HINT HINT--from Friday, August 31 to Saturday, September 8.

In case you missed the action yesterday, Takeru Kobayashi has been defeated.

NEW YORK -- In a gut-busting showdown that combined drama, daring and indigestion, Joey Chestnut emerged Wednesday as the world's hot dog eating champion, knocking off six-time winner Takeru Kobayashi in a rousing yet repulsive triumph.

I've actually been following Kobayashi's career for a number of years now. It started when I happened to catch a special on him, and they were interviewing him at this sushi bar. One of those ones with the boats that float past the tables on the little river conveyor belt deal. Kobayashi, who looked to have maybe a 24 inch waist, just kept taking plates off the boats and munching. He stacked the plates on the table as he finished each portion. At the end of the interview, he got up and stood on the table and the stack of plates came up to his chin. As they left the restaurant, he mentioned that he would probably be hungry "in a few hours," since it had been a light lunch.

Hard to imagine that fellow being taken down, though he did beat his own previous record by an amazing 9.5 hotdogs.

The new Die Hard movie is 100 pounds of awesome powder in a 50 pound awesome cannon. Go see it right now.

That is all.