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Olympics: Norwegian Curling team goes pantless

Last week I posted a round-up of some of the different countries’ Olympic uniforms for the Sochi Games. Included in that was Team Norway, whose “mod” outfits have drawn comments and criticism.

Now it seems, other teams in the curling competition have complained that the Norwegian’s pants are “distracting.”

From OUT: “In addition to distracting competing teams, some have raised questions the legality of the pants and if they violate International Olympic Committee (IOC) rules. A debate has started as to whether or not the pants are part of the “official” uniforms provided by the team’s home country.”

So, in the spirit of cooperation, today the Norwegian Curling team took this picture pantless:

There.

Problem solved.

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America’s great national nightmare is over – Kris and Bruce Jenner separate

Does this mean we never have to hear about them ever again?

From E! Online:

Bruce and Kris Jenner have separated after 22 years of marriage.

“We are living separately and we are much happier this way,” the pair exclusively tell E! News.

“But we will always have much love and respect for each other. Even though we are separated, we will always remain best friends and, as always, our family will remain our number one priority.”

Rumors of marital trouble have been shadowing the Jenners for months, but the family has kept a unified front in shutting those stories down.

Bless their hearts, wish them well, but I hope this is the end of all this “Kardashian” balderdash.

Enough!

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GOP Senators Ted Cruz and Bob Corker in the most “I’m just curious” debate between two Republicans in a long time

From Dave Weigel over at Slate, we take a peek into the time-wasting, mind-numbing kind of “action” that goes on at the US Senate when time is ticking to keep our government up and running.

The “debate” on the continuing resolution to fund the government, like most Senate debates, has consisted of very little in the way of arguments on the floor. It’s more of a time-marking exercise, one that both sides have agreed to truncate in order to force a cloture vote today at 12:30 p.m.

Sen. Ted Cruz has attempted to use this time to prove that there’s grassroots support for the only-slightly-complicated plot of filibustering the CR so that Democrats can’t add back Obamacare funding via an amendment.

Yesterday afternoon Sen. Bob Corker — a Tennessee Republican who’s been outwardly dismissive of this strategy — started quizzing Cruz about how this was supposed to work, and why he voted for the cloture vote to start debate, and … look, just watch.

Apparently, there was a struggle for Democrats to not laugh out loud at how goofy this entire exchange was between two Republicans as time continued to tick by…

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Jimmy Fallon, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Stephen Marchant in epic lip-sync competition

Stephen Merchant, Jimmy Fallon, and Joseph Gordon-Levitt hit the stage in a fab lip-sync competition featuring “Single Ladies”, “Tiny Dancer”, “Take On Me”, and “Don’t You Want Me” on last night’s ‘Late Night with Jimmy Fallon’.

Complete silliness.

So who do you think won?