Eddie Van Halen in rehab

E! News – Eddie Van Halen Jumps to Rehab

Shocking!

Only not.

Captain America killed

Captain America Killed | The Onion – America’s Finest News Source

I don’t really have much to say about Marvel’s decision to kill off Captain America (Pete pretty much covers it) but this Onion piece is too funny not to pass on.

Bush to veto war vote

White House Threatens Veto On Dem Withdrawal Plan

Fine. Let him. Then it’s truly and fully his and anyone who votes against it. He wants to take ownership over the war and define “victory” and “defeat.” Him vetoing this measure will let his head be the one that bears responsibility over its outcome. But the threat of a veto doesn’t mean Dems shouldn’t still work to pass this measure, even if it’s essentially symbolic. It puts them on the record as having a Plan B, something the White House has yet to provide.

There is no curse

Starr: Are the Cubs Baseball’s Last Tragedy?

Thilk: No. Are You an Asshole Looking for an Easy Story Hook?

Seriously, there’s nothing that gets my blood pressure up more than talk about curses and goats and such. It’s ridiculous. It’s the players on the field and because Kerry Wood and Mark Prior are each about to qualify for a free Tommy John surgery after getting their punch cards filled that’s keeping the Cubs from doing better.

LOTD: 3/9/07

• Steve Rubel pointed out that Technorati was indexing/recognizing Twitter feeds, and that set off a claim by Josh Hallett, among others. So claim your Twitter! (TB)
• Jim Horton says that if the way Americans see Guantanamo Bay is indeed a PR campaign, then it “deserves to be a case study.” (TB)
• While it’s clearly full of TMI (too much information), Twitter is apparently useful indeed, says Doug Haslam. (TB)
• AdPulp’s David Burn notices an interesting point made by Ariel Waldman in an interview with Shawn Waite. Namely, Waldman says, that blogs have opened doors between agencies that wouldn’t necessarily have “spoken” before. (TB)