Andrew Hiller on this story: "It’s time to stop barking, and start listening. An invitation to a national conversation on dog race." Heh.

As the owner of a big, black dog, I am personally offended by the prejudice against said dogs, and I hereby demand that all the presidential candidates immediately and personally reject and denounce the dog-racist sentiments which CNN has bravely shined a light on… and if any candidate does not do so within the next five minutes, I will consider him or her to be presumptively a dog-racist! :P

Fun with Scrabulous:

Oh, come on, that should totally be a word. :)

Hmm…

Not so good. Nadine, where can I get that "testing program" you mentioned?

P.S. To be clear, this is not my typical speed with Comcast. Usually, my download speed is in the 5000-6000 range. However, my connection was crawling last night, which is the same sort of intermittent issue I was experiencing prior to my apparently-successful visit from Comcast techs on Saturday. Hence my concern.

In light of my recent negative post about Comcast, as well as my earlier litany of complaints about the company’s “craptastic” service, I should point out, in the interest of being fair & balanced, that a pair of friendly, articulate, and highly competent-seeming Comcast employees just showed up and gave me the quickest and most well-explained answer to a support question I’ve ever gotten from their company. Details after the jump.

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You know what makes me, like, totally love my cable company? When I leave work 2 1/2 hours early so I can be home when they send a tech over to check on our malfunctioning high-speed Internet — supposedly between 3:00 and 5:00 PM — and they never show up, because they couldn’t reach me by phone, because, as it turns out, someone made a typo and transcribed my area code as “830″ instead of “860.” Yup, I’m absolutely freakin’ thrilled with Comcast right now. [/sarcasm]

UPDATE, 11:50 PM: A guy at Comcast’s executive offices just e-mailed me: “It was too late to call, but I wanted to apologize for the Comcast experience that you have had. I have asked that my contacts in your area reach out to make sure you are fully taken care of for your troubles. It is unacceptable that we created that experience for you, and I will make sure to share the feedback.”

Sometimes it’s nice to have a blog with a decent-sized audience! Heh. I never expected by whiny kvetching to actually get results. I am blogger, hear me roar! :)

Where are all the single guys? West of the Mississippi, apparently. A fascinating map. Suddenly I understand why our two closest single SHA-girl friends like Denver so much… :)

(Hat tip: Sully.)

Hillary Clinton’s April Fools joke. Not bad!

Audio here. Poorly synched video here.

As you may have noticed, it’s April Fools Day. Here at the Irish Trojan’s Blog, I managed to pull off my third-ever, at least somewhat successful April Fools joke. (Flashback: Kerry-McCain ‘04, Dean O’Hara resigning.) But what else is happening around the Interwebs on this day of jokes and pranks?

Well, as usual, Google came out with a couple of obviously fake new "products." Frankly, their April 1 "announcements" are kinda lame, IMHO, because they’re never really believable — with the notable exception of the one time they made an April 1 announcement that wasn’t a joke, back in 2004, when they introduced Gmail on April Fools Day. Remember that? And how it was endlessly debated all day long, with lots of people saying it was literally too good to be true? Best marketing stunt ever!

Anyway, the most kinda-sorta-believable fake "news" report I’ve seen today is the announcement of a Microsoft-Yahoo merger. (Ma-hoooo?)

Meanwhile, over in Britain, the Daily Star reported that Daniel Craig thinks James Bond should try being bisexual. Not to be outdone, the Sun revealed that "French President Nicolas Sarkozy is to have pioneering stretch surgery in a
bid to make him taller," so that "when surgery is completed he will be an inch taller than his stunning ex-model
wife Carla Bruni." And, sticking with the Bruni/Sarkozy theme, the Guardian announced that France’s first lady "has been appointed by
Gordon Brown to spearhead a government initiative aimed at injecting
more style and glamour into British national life." Heh.

And then there’s this, from the BBC:

Methinks the Brits are just plain better at this April Fools business than we colonists are. :)

Additional roundups of sundry April Foolishness can be found here, here, here and here. And here’s a list of the ten best April Fools pranks ever.

Did any of y’all see, read about, experience, or pull off any good April Fools jokes today?

I knew the mortgage crisis had hit Ohio hard, but I didn’t realize things were as bad in the Buckeye State as this headline suggests:

Obama, Clinton Respond to Bush’s Speech on the War in Ohio

Personally, I think we should withdraw our troops from Ohio immediately. We must stand down so the Ohioans can stand up.

Heh.

Former Buffalo Bills quarterback Jim Kelly is reportedly considering a run for Congress as a Republican.

Let’s see: he can serve in the House for four years, run for Hillary Clinton’s Senate seat in 2012, win in a stunning upset, make a national name for himself, and then in 2016, when President Obama is termed out…

…can you say Kelly-Norwood ‘16?

You may scoff, but the ticket has some major built-in political advantages. First of all, they’d win the normally Democratic state of New York in a landslide, by uniting nostalgic Bills fans and grateful Giants fans. And secondly, they’d have no problems motivating the conservative base. After all, nobody knows how to aim for the right like Scott Norwood! It’d be a vast wide-right wing conspiracy!

:P

(Hat tip: Hugging Harold Reynolds. To all my Buffalo readers, including my wife, I apologize. I couldn’t resist.)

In the aftermath of Duke’s win over Belmont on Thursday, the NBC affiliate in the Raleigh-Durham area bypassed the CBS/NCAA embargo on tournament game highlights by re-enacting the game using dolls:

Heh! Somebody get this guy a network gig. And I want to see that frog in One Shining Moment, dammit.

(Hat tip: AOL Fanhouse.)

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Last Thursday, Tulsa, Oklahoma joined Boise City, Oklahoma in a strange brotherhood. Both cities have now been bombed by American forces. A National Guard plane en route to a bombing practice run at a range in Kansas apparently lost one of its bombs, which crashed through an apartment complex in Tulsa. The bomb was a 22-pound dummy bomb, and no one was at home at the time it crashed into the bathroom of Tulsa residents Jeremy Isbell and his wife.

As a follow-up to my dad’s post, Loyette and I would like to wish you & yours a very happy St. Patrick’s Day:

Awww. :) Cutest. Leprechaun. Ever.