Literally, A Web Log

From CNN American Morning:

Well, you’ve got to check this one out. It’s a scary video that’s just released. It’s prompting some calls for seat belts on school busses. It shows just how vulnerable kids can be when things go wrong. You see the kids literally being tossed in the air as if they’re on a trampoline. It was after a bus approached a bridge, slammed into the guardrail and then plunged into a ditch below. There you see the video again in slow motion of the kids literally flying around the back of the bus.

(Thanks, Alison)

It’s been raining literally comic strips lately (but not literally raining comic strips).

First from the strip “Working It Out” a man is literally chained to his desk. Click for more comics:

Then from the strip “Clear Blue Water” a woman literally has a cow. Click for the complete strip:

(Thanks, Derek and Lorraine)

I think this is my favorite blog comment ever:

“IM” IN UR GRAMMER
MISUSIN UR APOSTRFE’S
LITRALY

It sums up grammar-peeve-blogging very nicely, using the LOLCAT format, although it could probably use a lowercase L.

From the Baldo comic strip:

(Thanks, Lorraine)

Ahmadinejad questions 9/11, Holocaust

President Bush said Ahmadinejad’s appearance at Columbia “speaks volumes about, really, the greatness of America.”

He told Fox News Channel that if Bollinger considered Ahmadinejad’s visit an educational experience for Columbia students, “I guess it’s OK with me.”

But conservatives on Capitol Hill were critical. Sen. Joseph Lieberman, an independent from Connecticut, said he thought the invitation to Ahmadinejad was a mistake “because he comes literally with blood on his hands.”

He really should wash his hands before visiting another country.

(Thanks, Jeff, Matt from Texas, Shannon Briese Aissen, and Frank Ciavarella)