Goodbye from the world’s biggest polluter!
George W. Bush leaving the G8 Summit.

Bush then punched the air while grinning widely, as those around him looked on in shock.

The ball just sounds different coming off his bat, almost like a gunshot.
A’s pitcher Greg Smith on Josh Hamilton.

I noticed the same thing earlier in the year when I saw Hamilton play against the Red Sox. He hits the ball square on the barrel of the bat every time. You can hear the difference during Hamilton’s record setting performance in this year’s home run derby.

“Rub against me and I’ll expose you.”

They’ve had these signs on Boston trains for a while now. I really don’t think the slogan works.

2008 Tour de France - The Big Picture:

The pack passes through fields of sunflowers during the ninth stage of the Tour de France cycling race between Toulouse and Bagneres-de-Bigorre, southern France, Sunday July 13, 2008. (AP Photo/Bas Czerwinski)

2008 Tour de France - The Big Picture:

The pack passes through fields of sunflowers during the ninth stage of the Tour de France cycling race between Toulouse and Bagneres-de-Bigorre, southern France, Sunday July 13, 2008. (AP Photo/Bas Czerwinski)
Manny Ramirez ducks into the Green Monster to make a call during a pitching change (Boston Globe).
Manny Ramirez ducks into the Green Monster to make a call during a pitching change (Boston Globe).
Toothpaste for Dinner, (06/28/08)
Sometimes [Maria] pulls in the cutouts of Obama … and is putting it right next to my breakfast table, and I have to look at it, and then of course when he screws up in one way or the other, the kids carry out the cutout, and he has to be outside the house for awhile, and then they carry him in again.
— Republican Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger on life with Maria Shriver (Meet the Press).

Will Leitch: Life as a Loser

Leitch would later become the founding editor of Deadspin.

It is clear I am not cut out for the corporate world. I don’t mean the corporate world of insider trading, guys screaming “buy” and “sell” into their cell phones and foreclosing on family farms; that world is as foreign to me as Mars. I mean the grownup world, the place where you earn a salary, pay bills, put money in 401k plans and try to stay upwardly mobile. I’m perfectly content to sit here all day and tell you about Woody Allen’s new film and whether or not my cat and I are getting along, but the world doesn’t seem too crazy about that idea. Since the world, like the playground bully, is bigger than me, it tends to win.
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