A Freedarko post-mortem on the dunk that got lost. Gerald Green was robbed! Well, not really. Dwight Howard totally rocked but Heather and I were chagrined that Green didn’t get enough due props for ‘The Birthday Cake’.

NYT columnist Frank Rich writes about how the GOP may have problems discarding its old, white image.

What about the young, white image? (Thanks Rozie!) Sample quote on indie music (#41)

But BE WARNED, talking about Indie Music with white people is perhaps the most dangerous subject you touch upon. One false move and you will lose their respect and admiration forever. Here are some general rules

- Bands that have had their songs in an Apple ad are still marginally acceptable
- Bands that have had their songs in ads for other companies are not acceptable
- If you mention a band you like and the other person has heard of them, you lose. They own you.

Hey, blog I’ve never been to before, why do you make me laugh for a couple pages and then shoot me in the face with your shotgun of truth?

This list of the 5 most badass presidents of all time is make you cry funny. On Andrew Jackson:

On one occasion, he challenged a man named Charles Dickinson to a duel, (the reason behind it wasn’t important, not to us and certainly not to Jackson), and Jackson was even kind enough to give Dickinson the first shot. We’re gonna go ahead and repeat that: In a duel with pistols, Jackson politely volunteers to be shot at first. Dickinson happily obliged and shot Jackson, who proceeded to shake it off like it was a bee sting. When Jackson returned the favor, Dickinson was not so lucky, and that’s why his face isn’t on the twenty. The bullet, by the by, remained in Jackson’s body for 19 years because, we assume, Jackson knew that time spent removing the bullets would just fall under the general category of “time not dueling,” Jackson’s least favorite category.

Speaking of badasses, Mike Kenny does a thing every week where he brings out a classic sports card and makes fun of the subject and the nostalgia the card brings up. This week he looked at Albert Belle, and listed some of the things that Upper Deck neglected to mention…

- Chased and ran down trick-or-treaters who egged his house, hitting one of them with his car
- Threw a baseball into the stands at a heckler, hitting him square in the chest
- Smashed Kenny Lofton’s boombox to pieces with a bat
- Had this to say in the aftermath of shouting a tirade of profane insults at a group of reporters who had the audacity to be in the Cleveland dugout during the World Series: “The Indians wanted me to issue a statement of regret when the fine was announced, but I told them to take it out. I apologize for nothing.”
- Attached a GPS device to the car of a former escort he was stalking

Weirdest story I read this week was about truffles, a subject I knew absolutely nothing about and made me do a wiki search afterwards.