Harper’s Mag­a­zine has an inter­est­ing story about one of Pres­i­dent Bush’s favorite paint­ings. The story com­pares Bush’s story of its mean­ing with the actual mean­ing. Quite dif­fer­ent things indeed.

Via Kottke.

My room­mates and I saw this com­mer­cial the other night when we were watch­ing the Patri­ots game. We spent the rest of the night wait­ing for it to come on again.

The voiceover of the dog is noth­ing short of brilliance.

During last week­ends NFL wild-​card play­off round, I was four out of four in my picks. The Patri­ots fan in me really wanted to see the Titans win, but I was pretty sure they had exactly zero chance of pulling it off.

This week I’m pick­ing all the high­est seeds to win. There is no way Peyton Man­ning will repeat the six inter­cep­tion deba­cle against the Charg­ers. The Cow­boys will some­how pull it off against the Giants and the Pack­ers will cruise through the Sea­hawks on autopi­lot, which brings us to the real game: Patri­ots vs. Jaguars. Scary. The Patri­ots fan inside me is a little ner­vous about the men in black (or I sup­pose white or teal on Sat­ur­day). For­tu­nately, I’m con­fi­dent we will pull it off.

King Kauf­man agrees with me too. His write-​up is much more witty than mine how­ever (ex: “The Cow­boys played their last few games in fuzzy slip­pers, eating bon­bons by the fistful.”).

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