We have a big week planned for Culturegeist: a couple of new running features, a Movie Madness for Hellboy II, and lots of links to interesting, fun, and funny goodness. Yes, you heard me right… actual content this week! With words! But first, here’s some links to start the week off right and avoid that case of the Mondays:
- USADA caught of a couple of track and field athletes doping… at the Paralympics. Luckily, I am slow of wit and unable to get myself in trouble making fun of this story. [International Herald Tribune]
- The New Yorker has an interesting piece on how Chicago influenced Obama. Unfortunately, the editors thought it would be a great idea to put a cartoon of the Obamas as machine gun toting, flag burning Muslims on the cover of the issue… so there’s that too. [New Yoker article here, the cover here via the NYT Politics Blog, and The Carpetbagger Report on the campagins’ reactions here]
- Good news, bad news in D.C. Another gunman in Adam’s Morgan this weekend: bad news. Witnesses ran him down and the police caught him: good news, such as it is. [NBC4]
- Apparently product placement is bothering the FCC so much that it is considering regulating the practice. One idea includes disclaimers… which, by my count, will draw attention to the product placement and only make it more effective. Right? [Gawker]
- Advice for Elton Brand from Allen Iverson and Charles Barkley, a couple of players who know what it’s like to deal with Philly fans. [The 700 Level]
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