So is everybody going to pilates class these days?

Or are yoga pants this decade's bike shorts?

I mean seriously, you can't hit a celeb site without seeing someone parading around in yoga pants anymore. No complaints, these gals look good in them, but if I may paraphrase one of my favorite movies, Hackers:

Yoga pants -- they're a privilege, not a right.

Will PolitiFact make Obama's enemies list?

Last year, the liberal leaning PolitiFact slammed the Democrats assertion that the Republican's economic bill would "end Medicare as we know it" a statement the President continues to spout on the campaign stump even now. PolitiFact called it the "Lie of the Year."

Within the last day or two, PolitiFact has come out again and rated False the President's (our constitutional scholar President, btw) assertion that the Supreme Court, in deeming ObamaCare as unconstitutional, would be overturning a law passed by wide margins and unprecedented.

For their part, PolitiFact tried to give the President cover by allowing him some nuance in later framing ObamaCare as an economic issue rather than policy issue, but they flat out rated his claim as false and false.

Given the petulant, childish nature of this President and those around him, I wouldn't be surprised to start hearing very vocal complaints about PolitiFact come out of the Oval Office and pretty much everyone else in the water carrying media.

Late night hotness . . .

. . . she loves me not . . . wait, don't stop now

Always fun to watch the master at work

Paris Hilton is in Australia for the opening of a casino. And despite the fact that she, personally, is obscenely wealthy, someone is putting her up on a luxury yacht while she's there.

Knowing full well she's being papped every moment of the day, the PhD of fame-whoring, backs up to the boat's railing and spends about five minutes working her wedgie out:

Mission accomplished, as Paris gets her ass on every celeb blog and in every scandal rag in the world. I mean seriously, she plays the media better than pretty much anyone else in the famous-for-being-famous category.

And when it comes to dropping some skin on a yacht, Paris has shown before that she has no peer:

And they say this chick has no talent. Pfftt . . .

Game of Thrones -- finally!

Finally, our long national nightmare is over and the new season of Game of Thrones premiered tonight.

I'm not going to rehash the episode, but will mention that after reading the first two books in George R.R. Martin's Song of Fire and Ice epic, that I'm fairly impressed with how well the show's creators hew to the source material.

I am pleased with some of the casting of the new characters, particularly Liam Cunningham as Davos, the Onion Knight and Carice van Houten as Melisandre, the sorceress who bewitches Stannis Baratheon.

Cunningham's a sturdy character actor who's been in tons of stuff, most recently the Clash of the Titans remake. And I just saw van Houten in the unknown and underrated Black Death. She played a witch in that as well and that movie starred Sean Bean, so there's tons of synchronicity at work here. Surely unintentional, but amusing to me none the less.

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One downer for the night was a couple of previews that came on right before the show. HBO has two new series coming up -- one about an apparently conservative newsman who has a meltdown and begins speaking truth to power via liberal talking points, of course. I'm guessing this is their sort of Bill O'Reilly becomes Joe Scarborough show.

The other is about a ditzy Vice President who doesn't know what the acronym NASA stands for and is a complete incompetent diva. Clearly another knock at Sarah Palin.

*sigh*

After the laughable mess of Recount and the critically panned in-kind political contribution Game Change, you would think the honchos at HBO would get off it for a bit. But I guess not.

Well, they've got me for one show. But I wouldn't watch the rest of their liberal b.s. line-up if you put a gun to my head.

Ryan Newman wins at Martinsville

Ryan Newman won the Goodies Fast Relief 500 today at Martinsville.

Teammates Jeff Gordon and Jimmie Johnson dominated the short track race, and with Dale Earnhardt Jr. lurking in the top five, team owner Rick Hendrick was looking at a possible sweep of the top three finishing positions. Unfortunately, a late race caution gave other drivers a chance to get gas and fresh tires, leaving Gordon and Johnson vulnerable on a restart.

Unable to get away clean on old tires, both Gordon and Johnson got collected in a restart wreck and the in the ensuing restart, Newman held off A.J. Allmendinger and Jr. for the win.

Tony Stewart finished 7th, which moves him to third in the points standings. Stewart-Haas racing now has 3 victories in the 6 Cup races this season. Pretty impressive for the little team. And as always, seeing Tony beat the Hendrick juggernaut with it's own equipment always puts a smile on my face.

Shout out sympathy for David Reutimann who caused the late race caution. Trying desperately to keep his dying car in the top 35 in owner points, Reuty limped around the track trying to stay out of everyone's way until a timing chain broke and his engine shut down completely. Other drivers over the radio could be heard slamming Reutimann for not parking his car, but as Michael Waltrip said in the booth, no one knew exactly what was going on inside the car and it wasn't until after the race that Reutimann's motivations came out.

Congrats again to Ryan for the win.

Rule 5 Sunday -- Girls behaving badly edition

Or perhaps it should be photographers behaving badly. heh heh

If you're one of the two or three folks that have followed me online, you know I'm liking the vintage stuff, black & white photography, and the like. So I'm always trolling around looking for that type of thing online. I had always known of Bettie Page and her fetish work. I just never imagined it was so prevalent back in the day.

Photogs like Irving Klaw, Bunnie Yeager, Theo Ehret, and others were getting their freak on back when Lucy and Desi were sleeping in seperate beds on television. Scandalous! And apparently this stuff continues today with the wondrous world of internet access, there are other photogs carrying on the kinky work of these vintage photographers.

Not that I, personally, am interested in this stuff. Not at all, it is presented merely in an academic light. Because . . . well, you know . . . uhmmm . . . *closes door to computer room*

*click on thumbnails for full-sized images*

Rule 5 Sunday suggested by this.

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