I wonder what Elton John has to say about Fantasia Barrino winning American Idol?

After Stern’s attacks from the FCC, he played some controversial clips from the Oprah Winfrey show where she talks about some rather inapproprate things on network television. He has encouraged his listeners to write to the FCC so the organization will go after her, causing one of two things to happen:
1) They’ll fine her and outrage her legions of fans, or
2) They won’t fine her and will reveal that they do not dispense “justice” evenly.

The smoking gun has some sample letters written by, most likely, Stern fans. They are hilarious. This is one of my favorites.

This site is pretty neat… people mail in pictures directly from their camera phones, and they’re instantly posted. The “most viewed pictures” are probably the type you’d expect.

http://mobog.com/

This is one of the few times I wish I was watching QVC. Don’t forget to click on the link at the bottom to watch the actual movie.

As Lisa explained what viewers were seeing on their screens (“Chris is over there kinda givin’ us a look at how to use the ladder there”) and Renee waxed rhapsodic about the Telesteps ladder (“I gotta tell you something: I have this ladder; it is awesome. And everybody wants this ladder. I live in an apartment with vaulted ceilings . . .”) there came a loud crash as Chris lost his balance, fell off the ladder, and landed on his back.

The camera quickly cuts away as the guy is writhing in pain on the floor.

Al Gore gave a talk discussing global warming in New York City today. Outside it was single digits with snow flurries.

New York City reached a high of just 14 degrees and got 5 inches of snow before it tapered off to flurries at midmorning.

I watched the Patriots game yesterday, but missed most of the first half at a Christmas party. Apparently I missed the best part (aside from us winning our 11th straight).

When Kolber asked Namath about watching this season’s Jets struggle, he launched into a rambling reply.

“I want to kiss you,” he said. “I couldn’t care less about the team struggling. What we know is we can improve. Chad Pennington, our quarterback, missed the first part of the season and we struggled. We’re looking to next season. We’re looking to make noise now and I want to kiss you.”

The recent infographic from The Onion on the spam bill is hilarious.

I guess this is old news now, but I don’t remember reading it before. Red Lobster planned an all-you-can-eat crab special that cost them boatloads of dollars and they had to fire their president.

“It was kind of the worst of all worlds,” one senior Darden executive remarked as the casual-dining giant said Red Lobster management had badly miscalculated how many times customers would take the chain at its word and eat all they wanted – at a time when crab costs were going up.

“It wasn’t the second helping on all-you-can-eat but the third,” said company chairman Joe R. Lee. “And maybe the fourth,” added Dick Rivera, company president and chief operating officer, on a conference call after the market Wednesday.

Former Bears QB Jim McMahon was arrested for a DUI this weekend.

One breathalyzer exam put McMahon’s blood-alcohol level at 0.261 percent; another put it at 0.258 percent. The legal limit in Florida is 0.08 percent.

“During a sobriety test, Mr. McMahon looked at the officer and said, ‘I’m too drunk. You got me,’ ” [sheriff’s spokesman Jerry] Henderson said. “He was pretty well wasted”

In related news, the Illinois Liquor Commission let go of Jim McMahon as their spokesman for responsible drinking.

In the poster, McMahon is seen in his trademark sunglasses, holding a football while sitting at a bar. Above McMahon is the line “Don’t Be a Punk and Get Drunk: Our Servers Serve Responsibly.”

I was browsing eBay and found this listing. The product? A $20 gift certificate to the iTunes music store. The starting price? $20. Now, why in the world would I spend $20, which I could use to buy anything (including iTunes songs) on a gift certificate I could only use for iTunes songs? Oh wait… it gets better. An actual quote further down in the listing:

There is a $1.00 charge to transfer the certificate to you.

Amazing. Where do I sign?