{"id":196,"date":"2008-07-14T13:27:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-14T17:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/?p=196"},"modified":"2008-07-14T13:27:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-14T17:27:00","slug":"headline-roundup-with-the-big-ugly-man-doll-or-the-darwin-awards-get-local","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/?p=196","title":{"rendered":"Headline Roundup With The Big Ugly Man Doll, or, the Darwin Awards Get Local"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This past Friday the Washington Nationals, currently in the cellar, managed to lose two MORE fans in what can only be called the worst doubleheader ever.&nbsp; These two fans, possibly having seen M. Night Shamalamadingdong\u2019s The Happening once too often, decided to stand up while riding on the open top of a National\u2019s-sponsored tour bus as it drove under an overpass, which turned out to be the last thing on their minds.&nbsp; Always wear your seatbelt.&nbsp; Besides, so what if your team is 16 games back?&nbsp; It\u2019s not that bad.&nbsp; (Easy for me to say while the Cubs are on top.&nbsp; Check this space in October\u2026)<\/p>\n<p>For other new and creative ways of dying, we need look no farther than Anheuser-Busch, which has collectively decided that $52 billion is worth dying for.&nbsp; As they become Anheuser-Busch-InBev and sell out to Belgium, god-fearin\u2019, gun-totin\u2019, beercan-crushin\u2019, right-thinkin\u2019 Amuicans everwhar are putting down their cold ones and singing:<\/p>\n<p><em>There goes the King \/ There goes the King \/ There goes the big Number One<br \/>Them profiteers \/ They got my beer \/ but they will not get my gun! <br \/>When you sold Bud you sold a mouthful<br \/>When you sold Bud you sold your soul<br \/>When you sold Bud you sold your soul<\/em><\/p>\n<p>And America wept.<\/p>\n<p>Mind you, I don\u2019t much care for Budweiser \u2013 I\u2019m more likely to crack an import than a mainstream domestic \u2013 but I feel the same way about Bud as I do about Harley-Davidsons:&nbsp; I don\u2019t own one, but I\u2019d hate to lose something so quintessentially American.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of things quintessentially American, we seem to have a new tradition for entrants in the Miss Universe pageant to live up (down?) to.&nbsp; For the second year in a row, the American entrant in the pageant failed to meet the crucial challenge of walking and smiling at the same time, tripping over her feet on stage.&nbsp; I guess this Crystle doesn\u2019t shatter too easily\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Last, the Formula One chief is under fire for having kinky sex.&nbsp; His detractors claim, &#8220;There was a general attempt \u2026 to present it as some kind of worthy activity \u2026 as though it was all being carried out under the guidance of the Bondage and Sadomasochism Regulatory Authority.&#8221;&nbsp; Man, talk about Big Government.&nbsp; I didn\u2019t know we had an agency for that!&nbsp; Imagine applying for a job there, doubtless using the Government SF-69 form.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s about it for the headline roundup \u2013 all the news I can make myself give a damn about.&nbsp; Tune in next time!<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This past Friday the Washington Nationals, currently in the cellar, managed to lose two MORE fans in what can only be called the worst doubleheader ever.&nbsp; These two fans, possibly having seen M. Night Shamalamadingdong\u2019s The Happening once too often, decided to stand up while riding on the open top of a National\u2019s-sponsored tour bus [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[30,14],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}