I didn't know Bjorn Borg made underwear

On the par-4 third hole during the first round of the WGC-CA Championship, Henrik Stenson removed his clothes to hack a ball out of the mud.

Stenson found himself in a similar situation in Dubai earlier this year. He kept his clothes on to hit out of the mud and found himself covered in dirt for the rest of the round.

Stenson, who finished the day with a 3-under 69, opted to remove his clothing this time. He got his ball free and made perhaps the most entertaining bogey of his life.



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Flight 1549 (Hudson River) 3D amination recreation

With time-correct voice over between Captain Sullenburger and the tower.

It's still amazing. Sully sound slike he's reading the phone book, not announcing that he's got to ditch in the Hudson.

Matthews hammers Fleischer

Chris Matthews beats on Ari Fleischer over the "No Attacks" myth the Bushies are propagating.

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The Stewart-Cramer Feud, all in one spot

Jim Cramer is going on The Daily Show Thursday night. He and Jon Stewart have been engaging in a war of words for over a week.

It begins here, when Stewart went after CNBC. The piece was planned, but seemed more relevant when loudmouth revolution leader Rick Santelli stiffed Stewart at the last minute.

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Cramer then protested that a statement of his regarding buying Bear Stearns stock was taken out of context.

Stewart conceded the point to Cramer, saying with a hint of mockery, "I apologize, that was out of context, technically you were correct, you weren't suggesting to buy Bear Stearns. That was something you did five days earlier, in your buy and sell segment."

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Going on the Today Show, Cramer again tried to deflect criticism of his Bear Stearns call.

Following Jim Cramer's appearance on Today on Tuesday as a rebuttal to Jon Stewart, The Daily Show launched a full frontal assault on the entire NBC family.

Noting the awkwardness of Cramer's appearance on "The Today Show," where he watched Stewart's attack on his credibility, Stewart deadpanned that "it put a human face on my mocking, and gave me a sense of the damage I had done to a real person... It'd be like him having to watch me as his Bear Stearns advice wiped out my parents' 401(k)."

Stewart then turned to MSNBC, where he introduced Cramer's appearance on "Morning Joe" by saying "I like my news like I like my coffee, white and bitter."

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So now you're ready for Part 5, Thursday night.

Stewart Unleashed

Following Jim Cramer's appearance on Today on Tuesday as a rebuttal to Jon Stewart, The Daily Show launched a full frontal assault on the entire NBC family.

Noting the awkwardness of Cramer's appearance on "The Today Show," where he watched Stewart's attack on his credibility, Stewart deadpanned that "it put a human face on my mocking, and gave me a sense of the damage I had done to a real person... It'd be like him having to watch me as his Bear Stearns advice wiped out my parents' 401(k)."

Stewart then turned to MSNBC, where he introduced Cramer's appearance on "Morning Joe" by saying "I like my news like I like my coffee, white and bitter."

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Mindblowing

These are multiple YouTube clips (mostly instructional and performance videos) edited into slick mega-mashups by Israeli funk producer, Kutiman. They're not just patchwork assemblages, they're sample-based original creations. What you see is what you hear.

This is really amazing.

See them all:
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Jon Stewart and Jim Cramer go toe-to-toe, in seperate segments, on video...

...OK, so it's not technically toe-to-toe. More like they have competing video segments.

Jon Stewart, whose pointed takedown of the network CNBC last week has already become legendary, returned to the subject Monday in response to host Jim Cramer's complaint that he was taken out of context during the segment.

In regards to Cramer, Stewart addressed the host's suggestion that the "Daily Show" had used a particular clip from his show "Mad Money" to make it look as if he had recommended buying Bear Stearns stock a week before it collapsed.

Stewart conceded the point to Cramer, saying with a hint of mockery, "I apologize, that was out of context, technically you were correct, you weren't suggesting to buy Bear Stearns. That was something you did five days earlier, in your buy and sell segment." Roll the clip!

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Erin Burnett and Jim Cramer made an appearance on the TODAY Show Tuesday morning, filled with much the same rote nonsense that you hear on the TV every day. How can President Obama, as President, dare to do more than one thing at a time? There are too many bills for Erin Burnett to read, in between reality show appearances. And Jim Cramer just can't understand how a number of issues all dovetail with the economy. Seriously, watch this guy as he mocks the stem cell research order, because sure, there's no way at all that scientific innovations might impact the economy at all! There's no "stem cell research" button on the set of Mad Money that makes a fart noise. SHREWD INVESTORS TAKE NOTE, I GUESS.

Naturally, the ongoing war of japery between Cramer and Daily Show host Jon Stewart came up. Meredith Vieira makes Cramer watch last night's riff on the Daily Show, and, in exquisitely uncomfortable side-by-side boxes, you get to watch Cramer react.

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Frank Schaffer: GOP arsonists burned down our national home

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Open Letter to the Republican Traitors (From a Former Republican)

You Republicans are the arsonists who burned down our national home. You combined the failed ideologies of the Religious Right, so-called free market deregulation and the Neoconservative love of war to light a fire that has consumed America. Now you have the nerve to criticize the "architect" America just hired -- President Obama -- to rebuild from the ashes. You do nothing constructive, just try to hinder the one person willing and able to fix the mess you created.

I used to be one of you.

How can anyone who loves our country support the Republicans now? Barry Goldwater, William F. Buckley and Ronald Reagan defined the modern conservatism that used to be what the Republican Party I belonged to was about. Today no actual conservative can be a Republican. Reagan would despise today's wholly negative Republican Party. And can you picture the gentlemanly and always polite Ronald Reagan, endorsing a radio hate-jock slob who crudely mocked a man with Parkinson's and who now says he wants an American president to fail?!

With people like Limbaugh as the loudmouth image of the Republican Party -- you need no enemies. But something far more serious has happened than an image problem: the Republican Party has become the party of obstruction at just the time when all Americans should be pulling together for the good of our country.

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"The Republican base is now made up of religious and neoconservative idealogues, and the uneducated white underclass with a token person of color or two up front on TV to obscure the all-white, all-reactionary, all backward, there-is-no-global-warming rube reality. Actual conversatives, let alone the educated classes, have long sense fled." - Frank Schaffer

Jack Cafferty: GOP is becoming a cartoon

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The Republican Party is becoming a cartoon.

If the Republicans are ever to emerge from the long dark night they have created for themselves it will have to be without pandering to the right wing nuts that comprise Rush Limbaugh's radio audience. Didn't they learn anything in the last election?

All of which is to say the GOP is blowing it big time. They were handed a golden opportunity to redeem themselves with the election of Barack Obama -- a chance to line up and in unison condemn the evil their party put in the White House the previous eight years.

But instead of getting on board the change train and recognizing the incredible amount of damage their people had done to the country, Republicans go blithely along as though nothing has happened.

I hate to break it to them, but a lot has happened. And they're not going to like any of it.

The latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll shows the Republican Party's favorability rating at an all-time low. President Obama's is at an all-time high. The same poll shows that Republicans are getting most of the blame for the partisanship that hinders governmental progress. And perhaps most telling, when asked which party is best equipped to lead the country out of recession, the Republicans trail the Democrats by a stunning 30 points.

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Eric Clapton - Tell The Truth

Brilliant version of the classic Derek and the Dominoes tune at Hard Rock Calling in London, 2008.

Great message too: "The whole world is watching now, can you feel it? A new dawn is breaking now, can you see it?"

vintage Smithereens

The Smithereens performing "Behind The Wall of Sleep live on the UK tv show "The Tube" recorded Friday January 30th, 1987

Obama restores science to it's rightful place

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President Barack Obama urged researchers on Monday to follow science and not ideology as he abolished contentious Bush-era restraints on stem-cell research. "Our government has forced what I believe is a false choice between sound science and moral values," Obama declared as he signed documents changing U.S. science policy and removing what some researchers have said were shackles on their work.

"It is about ensuring that scientific data is never distorted or concealed to serve a political agenda _ and that we make scientific decisions based on facts, not ideology," Obama said.