I’ll just leave this here for you to read over…

Governor Palin has made a big splash onto the national stage, however her state investigation here in Alaska continues.

Back in late July the legislative council approved $100,000 to investigate Governor Palin’s potential abuse of power. Since, special investigator Steve Branchflower has been working methodically to bring to light the facts of a case that have only recently surfaced.

“The status of the investigation is that Steve Branchflower is taking statements right now from former members of the administration, and scheduling other appointments with other members of the administration, up to, and including Governor Palin to find out the facts of what happened,” said Senator Hollis French, who is in charge of the legislativeinvestigation of Palin.

Branchflower is looking into the events that led up to the firing of former public safety commissioner Walt Monegan. It is alleged that Monegan may have been fired for refusing to fire Alaska State Trooper Michael Wooten, who went through a messy divorce with Palin’s sister and is currently in the midst of a custody battle.

Regardless of Palin’s status as the vice presidential nominee, many are calling for the investigation’s continuance, “There is too much information to just erase it as a mistake,” said Senator Lyda Green, a Republican from Wasilla, “It needs to be followed through very diligently, very carefully.”

Although on the really cool side of things, we could be witnessing the first canidate to have to give her V.P. debates from a prison cell… that could be fun!

Meanwhile, where can I get these sw33t buttons?

McCain looks happy, doesn’t he?  Kinda looks like he needs to poop…

According to Tim Donaghy, who is a total douche and is facing a possible 25 years in prison for altering the outcome of games he officiated, is now saying that the infamous game 6 of the western conference finals in which the Los Angeles Lakers narrowly beat the upstart Sacramento Kings due in no small part to some of the worst officiating evar seen by anyone EVAR was in fact a screw job planned by the referees officiating that game.
According to documents submitted by Donaghy’s lawyers:

“Referees A, F and G were officiating a playoff series between Teams 5 and 6 in May of 2002. It was the sixth game of a seven-game series, and a Team 5 victory that night would have ended the series. However, Tim learned from Referee A that Referees A and F wanted to extend the series to seven games. Tim knew referees A and F to be ‘company men,’ always acting in the interest of the NBA, and that night, it was in the NBA’s interest to add another game to the series. Referees A and F heavily favored Team 6. Personal fouls [resulting in obviously injured players] were ignored even when they occurred in full view of the referees. Conversely, the referees called made-up fouls on Team 5 in order to give additional free throw opportunities for Team 6. Their foul-calling also led to the ejection of two Team 5 players. The referees’ favoring of Team 6 led to that team’s victory that night, and Team 6 came back from behind to win that series.

I’m not a Kings fan or anything, but when I first read this my reaction was the same as former Kings player (and one of the players that fouled out during that game) Scott Pollard - “I KNEW IT!” That one call when Mike Bibby got elbowed in the grill and got whistled for the foul was too unreal to believe that everything was on the up and up.

Granted, Donaghy would try to say anything to get his ass out of jail sooner, and he is going out of his way to try and rat out every single person he can in exchange for leniency, but this is the one thing that he has said during his arrest that I believe.

But he’s still a waste of skin.

…and it only took 95 years to make it legal! Yes, the drink attributed to Van Gogh cutting off his ear (actually, the more likely cause was schizophrenia or delicious period paint flavors) and Hemingway being…well, Hemingway, is now once again legal in the United States.

Mmmm….

It’s being produced in Alameda, CA, by our new best friends St. George Spirits, and of course, in Europe. For anyone who’s not yet had the pleasure, absinthe is a liquor distilled from, among other things, wormwood, and is said to have hallucinogenic effects. I tried it once and I did not in fact trip balls, but one shot got me significantly buzzed. It kind of tastes like licorice and gasoline. DELICIOUS!

Supposedly, the kind you can buy legally in America has less than 10 parts per million thujone, whereas absinthe “bottled before 1900 packed up to 260 p.p.m. of thujone.” Oh well, I’m still gonna party like Sherlock.

“After the first glass, you see things as you wish they were. After the second, you see things as they are not. Finally you see things as they really are, which is the most horrible thing in the world.” — Oscar Wilde

Absynthesis.

To the dismay of web nerds and all those hopelessly bound to their laptops, tv-links.co.uk was shut down last Friday. The site, which hosted links to hundreds of television shows and movies was loved by many, and is survived by a whole bunch more pirate sites that are way harder to find.

And I was half-way through Rome Season 2. Crap..

nerdz discuss.