FITS Evening Post: Blasts, Ice, Spiller, Etc.

For those of you who are colorblind – or afflicted with chronic cocklaphobia (fear of hats) – we’d like to take this opportunity to draw your attention to our new holiday “flair.”  Specifically, we’ve got a delicious minty green background going on … and our founding editor’s sexy cartoon caricature has donned a Santa hat.

Hot, huh?

We wanted to spring for some holiday lights, too, but Sic refused.

“The power bill around here is high enough already,” he said.

Anyway, welcome to the latest semi-regular edition of the FITS Evening Post, our random assemblage of stories that we wanted to write about more extensively but for whatever reason didn’t get around to …

WORLD

BAGHDAD BLASTS – Two days after agreeing to hold national elections in March of 2010, the capital of Iraq was rocked by a series of coordinated bombing attacks that left 120 people dead and another 400 people injured. Last month, 155 people died in a similar attack, while 122 people perished in an August bombing.  (New York Times – read)

THE AFGHAN SURGE – Gen. Stanley McChrystal is going to make Osama bin Laden a martyr if it’s the last thing he does … (CNN – read)

FUNNY METAPHOR ALERT – Climate-gate is only the “tip of the ice-berg.”  Gotta love a paper with a sense of irony … (Wall Street Journal – read)

AMERICA

ABORTION FUNDING IS IN – The U.S. Senate’s version of socialized medicine will include federal funding for abortion after an amendment that would have prevented it was defeated Tuesday. (LA Times – read)

OBAMA BLASTS GOP – President Barack Obama said partisanship was responsible for the nation’s deteriorating economic condition – but he then proceeded to rip Republicans for opposing his “stimulus” plan (which passed, btw). In Obama’s defense, though, Republican do suck … (ABC News – read)

MORE SPENDING? – Saying that America must “spend our way out of this recession,” Obama is proposing a second “stimulus” – including more bureaucratic bailout cash to state governments. (Associated Press – read)

TOUGH SELL – A second stimulus? More money to state bureaucracies? Yeah, America is not having it …  (Rasmussen Reports)

GOOD STUFF

ICE ICE BABY – A Chinese delivery man drove for 400 miles in the freezing cold with … get this … a cardboard windshield.  “Mr. Li” kept his eyes on the road by sticking his head out of the side window (turning his face purple) or peeping through holes in the cardboard.  No word yet on whether Vanilla Ice was in his eight-track …  (Ananova – read)

WE WEREN’T KIDDING – “Cocklaphobia” really does mean “fear of hats …” You people need to trust us. (WikiAnswers – read)

SOUTH CAROLINA

GRAHAM POLLING – U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham has a 43% approval rating among South Carolina voters, while 35% disapprove of the job he is doing.  Among Republicans, 46% approve of Graham’s performance, while 34% disapprove. That makes Graham one of only three U.S. Senators to have an approval rating of less than 50% within his own party.  Olympia Snowe of Maine and Ted Kaufman of Delaware are the others. (Public Policy Polling – read)

THOUGHTS ON FORD – S.C. Senator Robert Ford gets some love … for raising the Hunley? (The Whole American Hog – read)

FAIRFIELD CONFIDENTIAL – Our friends over at The Voice have an interesting story up about S.C. Rep. Boyd Brown, who has had it up to his eyeballs with Fairfield County’s public schools.  (The Voice – read)

LOBBYISTS LAUNCH WEBSITE – Two S.C. lobbyists, Sunnie Harmon and John DeWorken, have joined forces to form a new lobbying firm. And look, they’re pretty! (Official website – read)

SPORTS

MORE SPILLER I – ESPN’s Heather Dinich agrees with us that CJ Spiller should have been one of the five finalists for the Heisman Trophy. Or rather, we agree with ESPN’s Heather Dinich.  Whichever works for you. (ESPN – read)

MORE SPILLER II – Oh, Chris Lane over at Bleacher Report is on team CJ, too … (Bleacher Report – read)

BRADY BUNCH DRAMA – The unraveling of the New England Patriots continued unabated Monday as quarterback Tom Brady told a radio audience that his teammates “don’t fight very hard.” Muahahaha! (Boston Herald -read)

TIGER’S BLACK BOOK – The number of women alleged to have been “romantically” linked to golfer Tiger Woods has grown to eleven … and yet only two of them are porn stars?  C’mon, Tiger! (Fox 411 -read)

TIGER THE HOMEWRECKER? – Speaking of one of those porn stars, this has to be one of the funniest What Would Tyler Durden Do? headlines ever … (WWTDD – read)

STAR STUFF

NINETEEN? – In case you hadn’t heard, that friggin’ Duggar woman (from TLC’s soon-to-be-renamed 18 Kids And Counting) is pregnant again.  This will be baby No. 19, “if you’ve lost count.”  Also, if you were among the millions of Americans currently praying for her gallstone treatment (we weren’t), here’s a nice video of her saying danke schoen. (People – watch)

LEA HAS LEGS – And we have two new reasons to watch the TV show Glee … (Only In High Heels – look)

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