Daily Blend: March 28, 2010

On today’s schedule: scouring the flea market for A) a fedora and B) a used GameCube console (just to play Twilight Princess!), visiting my grandparents and their countless pets, going to the restaurant with my mother, then going to the movies for How To Train Your Dragon, which looks cute. A good day so far.

• This kid has a bright future, methinks.
  (via @ebertchicago)

• As long as this guy lives, harmonica music will never die.
  (via @ebertchicago)

• Great. One of the only times that President Obama actually shows some backbone in the face of opposition, it’s against Russia on a nuclear arms treaty, instead of the GOP noise machine. (Not that I’m saying that standing up to the Russians is a bad thing; it’s just too bad he doesn’t do it more often against domestic opponents, as well.)
  (via @todayspolitics)

• Cops and court judge it okay to repeatedly tase a pregnant woman for the crime of … refusing to leave her vehicle with her kids inside.
  (via @todayspolitics)

• Scott Brown propagates false rumors about Rachel Maddow on Twitter. An appropriate caricature of this would be a grave with a tombstone reading “RIP Scott Brown” with a bloody-fanged Maddow leering overhead.

• The era of Jack Bauer is over: the current eighth season of 24 will be its last. As much a devoted fan as I may be, one cannot deny the series has gotten sadly formulaic for the past few seasons. You can only have so many moles and bomb threats and defections and twists and CTU being taken down by terrorists before it all starts to feel like déjà-vu. However, it may not be over yet; NBC has previously expressed interest in acquiring the rights to 24 should Fox pull the plug, and in addition, there is news that a 24 film franchise may be in the works, which could definitely be interesting. (Hey, James Bond films ran for nearly four decades on the same tried-and-true formula, after all, so why can’t Jack Bauer?)

As always, if you have any story suggestions, feel free to send them in.