Who used the word “maverick” more often?

(a) Sarah Palin during Thursday night’s 90-minute debate.

or

(b) Goose during the 60 minutes he’s alive in Top Gun?

You know how sometimes they try a spoof on SNL that doesn’t work, and you realize it did not work because the thing they are spoofing was funny on its own right.  This often happened when they tried to run a skit on Steve Irwin, the crocodile hunter.  How could you add to what he did on his shows?   Or one of those “Date Movie” terrible efforts where they try to spoof “Napolean Dynamite” - you just can’t.

Sometimes, that happens to us too.  We see a story, or a headline as in this case, and we want to post something on it.  But we realize, there’s nothing more to say.

With all that being said, we’ll pass along this link to our first nomination for “Headline of the Year.”  Click here for the fun. 

Just 4 years after filming the documentary “Super Size Me,” Morgan Spurlock has finally fallen off the wagon and NEEDS his Big Mac…

Click here for full details on the story.

So, we came across this awesome story this morning about a woman in Green Bay essentially stealing her daughter’s identity and going back to high school (even making the cheerleading squad).  We could not settle on the best CIV angle for a post.  So, we’re giving you all 3.  Feel free to chime in with which one you like best (and yes, I’m talking to you JC and Vinnie).

(1) This is the real life version of Never Been Kissed meets Strangers With Candy.   The only thing up in the air is who will play Ms. Brown in the Lifetime movie - Traci Lords or Tori Spelling?

(2) Inspired by watching Gabrielle Carteris (age 29) play a high schooler on “Beverly Hills 90210,” Wendy Brown (age 33) managed to enroll in high school by stealing her identify. Fortunately for her daughter, Ms. Brown’s plot was foiled before anything else of her daughter’s was seemingly “stolen.”

(3) The popular magazine Cheerleading Monthly recently ranked every high school cheerleading squad in the country. Guess who came in last? Yep, Ashwaubenon High School from Green Bay, WI.  According to the magazine, they have the most worn out looking bunch in all of the United States, even stooping so low as to have their lopsided pyramid topped off by a 15 year-old who looks like a 33 year-old meth addict.

Any more ideas are welcomed!

We here at CIV are really glad that President Bush was able to negotiate Hurricane Gustav down to a Category 2 storm before it hit the Louisiana coast.  Lord knows that the entire Gulf coast - of course devastated Hurricane Katrina - was extremely happy to see that Bush was able to find a diplomatic resolution regarding this hurricane.

Seeing as he took the blame for Katrina hitting New Orleans, we figured we’d also give GW some props when a natural disaster actually lessens in impact and then does not directly hit the Big Easy.

As we watched the opening round of the US Open tennis tournament last night, we noticed that during each commercial break there was an ad for the “E.D.” pill, Cialis.

We couldn’t help but think of what Jenny Gump might say about this… “Women’s tennis and Cialis go together like peas and carrots. ”

As we tuned into the Olympics last night, we saw what everyone saw: NBC’s dream scenario of the women’s beach volleyball final… in the pouring down rain.

As we watched the unstoppable May/Walsh combo running around soaking wet in the little bikinis, we couldn’t help but wonder two things…

–Why wasn’t this being shown on USA?

–And why weren’t we taken to commercial break by Rhonda Shear, telling us we’re watching “USA - Up… All night!”

***And don’t you dare try to tell us that there was never a movie shown on the USA Up All Night series that did not the exact scene of bikini-clad women playing volleyball in the rain. Maybe it was in Sizzle Beach, USA or perhaps Malibu Bikini Shop or maybe even Student Bodies.

Surprisingly enough, we have recently learned that there is an organization out there more worthless that the NCAA.  Really, there is.  Who?  The International Olympic Committee.  The IOC rules with an iron fist, no doubt.  Unfortunately, the Committee’s motto - “a day late and a dollar short” - allows for that iron fist to usually swing and miss.

The latest example is better than we ever could have imagined.  Swedish wrestler Ara Abrahamian was not happy that the judges scored against him in a semifinal match.  He won the bronze medal in his next match.  But, after the medal ceremony on Thursday, Abrahamian took off his medal, dropped it on the podium, and stormed off.

Cue - the IOC!  This awesome, heady crew stepped in just in time - on Saturday - and stripped Abrahamian of his bronze medal.  Nooooooo!  How crushed must Abrahamian have been to have his medal stripped two days after he left it on the podium??? Read the rest of this entry »