Video Overload!!!! (Post Wisconsin Victory Edition)

So a couple of things until you get lost in the fabulous world of viral videos:
1. Michigan had the worst half of football ever played but rallied back from a 19-0 deficit to beat Wisconsin. Go us!
2. Baseball is officially over for the Cardinals. Boo.
3. Scott Linehan has been fired. Great now fire everyone else in the organization and we may start to get somewhere.
4. Posting once a week is lame, I know, but at least it is better than what is happening over at but awesome takes practice. (Quantity-wise, not quality-wise.)
5. The lizard video only makes since if you realize that the audio came from someone that was in a closet and drunk or high at the time. His friend then put the audio track to computer animation.
6. The history lesson is surprising accurate as far as the actual facts go but in reality Alexander Hamilton was not as pure as Michael Cera makes him out to be. The real Hamilton had an affair with Maria Reynolds and her husband blackmailed Hamilton. This affair is partially what prompted the duel with Aaron Burr but I will leave you to research that yourself.
7. Bubba Tunes does not condone the over consumption of alcohol or the taking of illegal drugs.

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Random Thoughts

Here is a collection of random points that could each be their own post but I have been lazy as far as blogging is concerned so I am taking the lame way out and doing it bullet point style.

1. The computer animated The Incredibles is totally and completely a copy of the classic "graphic novel" Watchmen. I know that Watchmen came out in in 1985 and I am way behind the boat on this one but I just read it for the first time this weekend and realized that The Incredibles, while still very good, is a dumbed down, Disney-ification, kiddie version of Watchmen.

2. As a partial owner of AIG I expect the checks to start flowing into my mailbox any moment....any moment...

3. Damn Notre Dame. Damn fumbles. Damn Damning Damn.

4. It is officially fall and it is still 82 degrees out. Now we had a very mild summer and for that I am thankful but we are 4 games into the college football season and I am still wearing shorts. What the hell gives? I know global warming and El Nino are probably the culprits but I checked the blogs and apparently the higher temperatures for this time of year have been caused by Rich Rodriguez. If you go to any WVU website the comments all indicate that Coach Rod is the devil and as such he must have left the door to hell open and letting all the heat into our world.

5. Damn that Notre Dame. Damn gift touchdowns. Damn Dammers.

6. So the new fall seasons are starting on television so I am really getting amped up for my two favorite shows, 24 and Lost...What's that?...They don't start until January?.....mother fu....moving on.

7. Damn Cubs. Damn Carey Buck Bottle. Damn Nolan. One time! I want to win that damn stupid trophy once! Damn it. Damn Damn Damn.

8. So take a look at this:

and then, of course,

(This is where I would post a picture of me and my wife but due to international copyright laws and the fact that I don't know all of you people reading this thing I am not going to put it up.) So what do Mike Comrie, Tom Brady, and I all have in common? We all went to the University of Michigan at the same time, we are all winners, and we all have some pretty nice looking babes on our side. This is where the comparisons end unfortunately as they both have looks and pretty lucrative jobs themselves.

9. I am taking the following classes this semester: State and Local Government, Real Estate Transactions, Environmental Law, American Legal History, Business Associations, and I am doing some directed research for a professor. Here are the classes I have on Thursday: State and Local Government, Real Estate Transactions, Environmental Law, American Legal History, Business Associations and I am doing some directed research for a professor. Here are my classes on Friday: _______.

10. Ryder Cup = Ours. As someone once said, "This is America and that is Kentucky and I will be damned if we are going to lose to a group of European nancies in Kentucky!" (That some one was me.)

11. Damn Notre Dame bastards. Damn Damn Damn.

New Look Bubba Tunes

Yeah, so I changed the look of this, the most read ever, blog.

I don't know how to really create my own look so I just used a template the good folks at Blogger had already created. I like the look better over all but I am mad that the Michigan countdown doesn't really fit all that well in any of the templates. Oh well, you can see the opponent and the clock and that is all you really need anyway.

In other news there are reports that Lance Armstrong is going to be making a come back and compete in a few tournaments including the 2009 Tour de France. If these reports are correct Luke is probably already in France staking out his spot on the Alpe d'Huez. Livestrong Luke, Livestrong. If the reports are not correct then put the gun down Luke, put the gun down.

10 Years + 70 Home Runs = Question Mark?

How about that for a title of a post? It is full of symbolism and randomness yet still makes a point. A very stale and transparent point but a point none the less.

It's been ten years:



The problem is it has only been a little over three years since this:



As a long time Cardinals fan and an even bigger baseball fan I can remember Mark McGwire's 62nd home run and the rest of the summer of 1998 vividly. On September 8, 1998 I was driving home from working as a bagger at a local grocery store. Mike Shannon and Jack Buck were on KMOX describing the Cardinals-Cubs game and I was probably breaking every state and local traffic law trying to get home in time to get in front of a television. I flew into the driveway, left my car out, ran into the house, flipped on the kitchen television, and as soon as the screen turned on McGwire hit number 62. It was a moment I will never forget.

Fast forward a little less then seven years to St. Patrick's Day 2005. I was on lunch break from work and decided to eat at a local barbecue place that had televisions on the wall. Usually the televisions had some baseball game on but this day they were all tuned to C-SPAN for the Congressional hearings on steroid use in baseball. At the center of it all was Mark McGwire. Sure others were there giving testimony, Rafael Palmareo, Curt Shilling, Jose Canseco, and others, but it was McGwire everyone would be talking about later. Up until that time nobody would admit that there was something wrong with the summer of 1998. It had, after all, brought baseball back to life after the devastating impact of the 1994 strike but after McGwire dodged question after question the blinders everyone had so willingly put on themselves were finally removed. When McGwire said "I'm not here to talk about the past" the past was forever changed. We were all hoping McGwire would lay things to rest once and for all and just say, "I know that bastard Sammy Sosa was on the juice but I never touched the stuff. Jose Canseco can rot in hell. Damn his lies. Damn his lies to hell. To Hell with him and his damned lies that I damned to hell just a second earlier." But he didn't and we all knew the truth.

Time, they say, heals all wounds but it appears Mr. McGwire still has some waiting to do. When he retired after the 2001 season everyone knew he was going to be a first ballot Hall of Famer. He had the single season home run record and was fifth on the all time list. Add in a World Series ring and even a Gold Glove it was a no doubter. But after being eligible for two years now, McGwire has not even sniffed the 75% of the vote to reach Cooperstown. People have decided to punish McGwire for alleged crimes against baseball purity.

This topic has been written about by countless numbers of people and I by no means consider my opinion higher than anyone else's but I think it is time we move on. Baseball has instituted testing and it seems to be effective. The power numbers that were every where during the "Steroid Era" have dramatically decreased and people are showing up in droves to ballparks across the nation (outside of Miami.) Mark McGwire has moved on with his life. He is quietly enjoying retirement, playing a lot of golf, raising two young children with his wife of seven years, and staying out of the public eye. I say put McGwire in the Hall, keep all performance enhancing drugs out of baseball, and really appreciate the things that truly are remarkable.

Detroit's Long Municipal Nightmare is Over

Kwame, Kwame, Kwame. Let this be a lesson for you. If you become the mayor of a city it is a bad idea to have strippers over to the mayoral mansion, fire persons with knowledge of that party, get sued by those people, come to a $8.4 million settlement with those people, saddle the city with paying for that settlement without fully disclosing the fact, use city credit cards like you are playing Monopoly, sleep with your chief of staff, lie about sleeping with your chief of staff, use a city cell phone to send explicit text messages to your chief of staff/lover, hold a funeral for a racial slur then resurrect said racial slur in the state of the city address, and then assault people trying to serve court orders.

Here is how a mayor should act:


(I know this was when she was governor but I just had to post it. )

Now that Kwame has officially turned in his letter of resignation let just remind you of something another famous Michigander once said:

...Thomas Jefferson said the people are the only sure reliance for the
preservation of our liberty. And down the years, Abraham Lincoln renewed this
American article of faith asking, "Is there any better way or equal hope in the
world?"

Even though this is late in an election year, there is no way we can go
forward except together and no way anybody can win except by serving the
people's urgent needs. We cannot stand still or slip backwards. We must go
forward now together....

I believe that truth is the glue that holds government together, not only
our Government but civilization itself. That bond, though strained, is unbroken
at home and abroad.

In all my public and private acts as your President, I expect to follow
my instincts of openness and candor with full confidence that honesty is always
the best policy in the end.

My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over.

Give it up for Gerald Ford ladies and gentlemen.

What's the worst that could happen...oh, that's bad...

After watching Michigan get owned this weekend I decided I needed some cheering up. There was an article on CNN.com about a Michigan State student that rapped about the new particle accelerator that is being built in France and Switzerland. In the rap she explains very complicated sub-atomic physics in a simple and fun way. (A side note: I am as impressed as everyone else that Michigan State students are smart enough to do anything but keg stands and burn couches.) Here is the video:



Fun video right? Is your brain hurting yet? If you didn't quite get the lingo the Cern Large Hadron Collider is being built so scientifically minded folks can try to figure out crazy ass shit. If all goes well the collider will provide insights about anti-matter, the creation of the universe, the existence of other dimensions, and all sorts of other sci-fi type stuff. Sounds great right? Well there may be a problem. The experiments may create a new black hole every second.

Now Stephen Hawkings and others says that the experiments probably won't create black holes and even if they do the black holes will be so incredibly tiny they won't do any damage. Apparently any black hole that is created will be traveling at such a fast speed that it will fly right off the planet and off into space. If any black holes were somehow trapped on Earth, they would be so incredibly small they would only "eat" one proton every 100 hours and could pass through a block of iron that stretched from here to the moon without touching it. (Weird huh?)

I don't know about this though. I know companies do a cost-benefit calculation where they set an acceptable level of deaths caused by their product but in those cases they deal with relatively small numbers of deaths. Here, the smallest number of deaths associated with the creation of an unexpectedly large black hole would be...carry the one...cross multiple and divide...um...every living thing and planet in the solar system. Given the large possible "cost" I don't know if any benefit would be worth it. Beside remember what happened the last time man messed with black holes?



The Lifeboat Foundation, one of the critics of the new collider, has created a program to investigate and hopefully stop a particle accelerator from destroying, well, everything but that is not the only thing on their agenda. Aside from particle acceleration issues, the Lifeboat Foundation has projects aimed at preventing or defending against such annoyances as rouge asteroids, nanobot infestations, attacks from artificial intelligence, radical climate change, Internet destruction, nuclear holocaust, and alien invasion. Some of their projects actually seem pretty reasonable while others, not so much. Their plan for alien invasion? Diplomacy. What a bunch of liberal wienies. They conclude that any alien species that has the ability to travel across space must have the technology to kick our ass so all we can do is talk to them and hope they like us. I say when the aliens invade the time for diplomacy is over and we need to nuke 'em and we need to nuke 'em now. Let's send Sarah Palin with her bull moose rifle up to the mother ship and she'll take care of business. The aliens will rue the day they messed with humans and Alaskan vice presidential candidates.