Ouch! — After promising to “push the reset buttonâ€� on relations with Moscow, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton planned to present Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov with a light-hearted gift at their talks last Friday night to symbolize the Obama administration’s desire for a new be...

Dildo. Every day on Hasbro's Scrabble homepage it gives a word of the day and definition from the Official Scrabble Dictionary. Yesterday's was dildo. I took the screenshot myself too so I know there was no Photoshoppery involved. Just a disgruntled employee. Or, I dunno, a random word generator. Go...

Who wouldn't boot in Hard Dick Mode? Photo [photobucket] Thanks to twatz0r, who, despite sending a tip, still called me a dick....

Spelling has never been one of my strong points. Spelling bees bore me. And televised spelling bees could be used against me as a torture device. Unfortunately, my better half loves them. A few months ago I wandered into the family room while she was watching the National Spelling Bee. And although ...

Damn I loves me some Scripps Spelling Bee, y'all. Love that it's on teevee, and LOVE your 2008 Champion, Sameer Mishra. Many times, the winners of these things are quivery sacks of tiny childlike frailties, spasming all along their nervous systems and staring out at the crowd like they just landed f...

Do non-English-speaking countries hold spelling bees? Or is it unique to English because our spelling is so screwed that mastering it becomes a skill worthy of national competition?...

Look at poor Akshay Buddiga faint. This infamous clip from the Ghost of Scripps National Spelling Bees Past should be a warning to the precocious youngsters battling it out in Washington D.C. today (the Semifinals are on NOW on ESPN and the Finals are on tonight on ABC at 8:00pm): this competition i...

In commemoration of the Scripps National Spelling Bee, A.J. Daulerio's Cultural Oddsmaker makes a brief return. Email him to let him know what you think. Tomorrow the Scripps National Spelling Bee will give another group of spindly kids with Akeelah-like aspirations an opportunity to make use of the...

Carol, Jesus, and I have been spending the last two months trying to get Brian ready for the spelling bee. I tried to get him to study Akeelah And The Bee, but could only get a, “Dad, I didn’t really like that movie that much,” out of him. He wasn’t great in practice and at t...