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Pirates are back!

And wrecking swashbuckling, oil-thieving havoc on the high seas. In light of this, is it still OK to continue to think of pirates as ironic, kitschy mascots? Ponder the question over at Asylum.

Is there still time for an October surpise?

So far, nothing. But we still have four more days. I speculate on what the October surprise may be over on Asylum.com

Favorite goofy endorsement of the 08 campaign

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Would you eat people?

If you didn't have much of a choice? Vote here.

Which VP candidate is going to crash and burn

During Thursday's debate. The smart money is on Palin, but you can make a case for Biden too. Vote here.

'Cause you are all wondering

I ended up finishing 11th this year in the entire Yahoo! fantasy baseball universe. Since I also won my pay league, I will get a shirt declaring me a Yahoo! fantasy winner. I have already promised people I will wear said shirt in social settings, and do so proudly and without a hint of irony.

What candidate is most likely to cheat

On his wife, that is. Vote here.

Also, I have all sorts of interesting stuff up on Asylum today check out.

Week three picks

At Atlanta -5.5 Kansas City
Atlanta rated #1 city for singles, Kansas City now #1 city for obscure quarterbacks.

At Buffalo -9.5 Oakland
It’s been over a week since the initial report that Monte Kifffin had been fired, and Kiffen is still around. The 33-year old attributes his surprising continued tenure to avoiding Owner Al Davis. Which is not hard to do considering, technically, Al Davis is dead.

At Tennessee -5 Houston
The city may have been hit hard by Ike, but Houston can take comfort in avoiding the whole Vince Young situation

At NY Giants -13.5 Cincinnati
Will the financial crisis put on damper on luxury box sales in the three new major New York City area stadiums opening up in the next two years? Eh, probably not.

At Washington -3 Arizona
Jim Zorn is the first NFL head coach with a Z name for at least 25 years. Using Google, it took me about five seconds to find that out. Isn’t technology grand?

At New England -12.5 Miami
Cassell a couple wins away from being able to impregnate a reality TV star.

At Chicago -3 Tampa Bay
Brian Griese returns to Chicago, which raises the question of when was the last time the Bears had a quarterback that wasn’t tied to drunkenness?

At Minnesota -3.5 Carolina
Here is a picture of P Diddy stepping in poo just because.

At Seattle -9.5 St. Louis
The Seattle Seahawks are not too big to fail.

At San Francisco -4 Detroit
I now officially find people who take time out of their lives to protest Scientology more objectionable than actual Scientologists.

At Denver -5.5 New Orleans
Here's hoping Colorado's new swing state status will call more attention to Mike Shanahan's spectacular tan.

At Philadelphia -3.5 Pittsburgh
Tune in to see what Eagle player does something goofy around the goal line and costs hundred's of thousands of fantasy players their week.

At Baltimore -2 Cleveland
Given the current credit crisis and the continued lack of a gold standard, wouldn’t a credible third party Ron Paul candidacy be getting fun about now?

Dallas -3 At Green Bay 51
Given the talent surrounding both of the them, and Rogers's promising start, Romo vs. Rogers could quickly develop into the NFC's premier QB match up.

At San Diego -9 NY Jets 44
After blowing last week's game for the Chargers, Popeye-armed ref Ed Hochuli says he has been besieged with hate emails from San Diego. If there are two things that will never sound right in the same sentence it's "hate mail" and "San Diego."

Would you clone yourself for parts?

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I hate to brag (not really.)

But my fantasy baseball team is currently 12th among the tens of thousand teams playing Yahoo fantasy baseball plus:

Death Watch: David Foster Wallace

It is pretentious and arrogant, but underneath the careless flashiness Infinite Jest was the work of genuine creative genius. It was also the work of a guy who must have had some pretty scary stuff running through his head. David Foster Wallace was 46.

Some of my best friends are virtual black people

I read a lot of articles about scientific studies and psychological experiments these days, and I was just reading one about racism in Second Life -- that weird virtual world that is apparently quite popular with people I don't know.

Anyway the article had a comment section, and rather quickly the virtual gamers started throwing accusations of racism at each other. One that was answered with this classic comment:

The Lohan/Ronson marriage, bad for the gays

What if Lindsay Lohan and her celebrity DJ girlfriend Samatha Ronson really do get married, as Samantha keeps suggesting they will? Same sex marriage is legal in California, at least until it goes to ballot in November, so the happy lesbian couple could go all out with the church and the ceremony and then sell all the photos to US Weekly for a princely sum.

It would be by far the most high profile gay marriage of all time, but it would only last a couple weeks -- or until the next time Lindsay runs into some Swedish male model with an eight ball and stops being gay. If you are a gay person, you can't be happy with this potential development.

For more controversial subjects involving non-traditional sex, check out the latest barroom debate.

Did you know?

The president of Thailand is being forced to resign because he violated his nation's constitution by appearing on a cooking show. Could it be the Thai framers brilliantly foresaw the bouillabaissed threat populist cooking show hosts would eventually pose to a nation's political system, while our founding fathers were hopelessly hung up on some inbred king? If so, a big minus for the US of A.

For more constitutional issues, check out the latest barroom debate.

Should teachers be able to carry guns in school?

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Death Watch: Dave Freeman

Even a death watcher who is taking it easy for August can't help but recognize the death of the guy who co-authored the popular travel book "100 Things To Do Before You Die."

Tragically, Dave Freeman had only completed about half of his list when his untimely death came at the age 47. Freeman died in a fall, which presumably wasn't one of things he planned on doing before he died.

Also, check out my latest political debate on Asylum: Is it more of a political liability to have a really rich wife (John McCain) or a really poor brother (Barack Obama)?

Cue the dueling banjos

So I'm finally getting this whole concept of Georgia being more than just America's fourth state down, but this headline still got me:

What sport should be added to the Olympics?

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As a bonus for voting, here is a gallery of sexy ads to look at. It is a bit on the not safe for work side, for those of you at work, and not up in the country and out in the sun like I am right now.

What is your preferred method of execution?

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Also, this week's installment of the best in punditry.