The latest Bigfoot hoax has been a pretty fun one. These guys say they discovered a “nest” of Bigfeet in Georgia, where one was dead and the others were alive. So, naturally, they stuffed the dead one into a refrigerator and shipped it to Palo Alto, CA — where else? Completely ignoring the idea that they found “several” Bigfeet, they are now demanding a book deal, and their DNA “evidence” was confirmed today to be one sample of human blood, and another sample of Opossum blood. Good try, boys.- If you’ve been watching the Olympics for the past week, you’ve undoubtedly noticed — or at least heard about — some strange things happening in the gymnastics competitions. First, there was China’s age scandal, where at least one of their competitors has been proven to be just 14 years old. Now, the scoring itself has come under fire. Sports Illustrated’s E.M. Swift has a good analysis of what’s wrong with the system.
- Barack Obama is expected to announce his Vice Presidential pick this week, as the convention looms just around the corner. Speculation has amped up over Senator Joe Biden, which is great news. The other likely pick is Evan Bayh, a Democrat from my home state of Indiana. Bayh may bring Indiana, but is it worth losing a Democratic senator from a conservative state? Nor does Bayh have any sort of foreign policy cred, unlike Biden, who is a heavyweight. More on that in a post yet to come.
- Obama and McCain were interviewed this weekend about their faith and values by megapreacher Rick Warren. Warren stated repeatedly that, since the candidates were to receive the exact same questions, McCain — the second to be interviewed — was sequestered in a room with no TV to prevent him from preparing his remarks. On Sunday, however, Warren — who passionately endorsed George W. Bush in 2004 and demanded that his minion preachers do the same — admitted that McCain was not even in the building during Obama’s interview, and he had no clue what he was doing.
- In other VP news, Tom Ridge, the brilliant inventor of our color-coded, politically motivated “terror alert” scale, has been discussed as McCain’s possible VP, but also immediately dismissed, as he is one of those pro-choice conservatives. In response to this discussion, Ridge stated Sunday that conservatives would “accept” a pro-choice candidate. If that were true, I’d say it would be better news for Mr. Obama than it would for Mr. Ridge.
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