Would it be fair to say: Hot off the 'net.

Ever since I read TDX's post (accounting for 50% of the traffic on this site daily), I've been trying to come up with an angle that would set AoF apart from the rest. Then I realized that it was nearly impossible as the only major common themes are sports, douchebags, and monkeys. Amazingly, as linked above, all of these sites exist in one form or another. This reminds me that at its inception, this site was touted as "purporting to know stuff." One example is the whole bullets falling from the sky (after being shot up in the air in celebration, warning, whathaveyou) killing Mexicans (or Canadians) assertion, which was argued for the better part of 3 months, and culminated in scattered statistics and a rather disappointing episode of Mythbusters.

So that brings us to today, 106 posts later, with no clear drive or direction. We've warned you about zombies and roombas. We've commented on George Foreman and Ann Coulter. We've live blogged Man v. Wild, and then live blogged the live blog. I could go ahead and say, from this point forward, we'll only write articles about sports. Sure we've got plenty of sports commentary, but most of it's coming from sites similar to ours. I could tell you that Kobe Bryant demanded a trade from the production of Kazaam 2 to the sequel to He Got Game, but only if Ray Allen wasn't a part of the trade. That would be a bold faced assertion of fact, whose truth only Kobe knows.

No...it wouldn't be fair to pigeon-hole AoF's content purely because it doesn't "fit the mold". With that in mind, I present to you with the morning "hot off the 'net(s)".

Matt Drudge, creator and operator of The Drudge Report, reports that he is the #3 most influential conservative in the U.S.. How about that. You run a website with a bunch of links to real reporting, break a presidential sex scandal or two, and next thing you know, you're #3. Just to put things into perspective, Rudy Giuliani, who's arguably a conservative and GENERAL DAVID PETRAEUS Commander of coalition forces in Iraq, are 1 and 2 respectively. 4th? Newt. Newt Gingrich. Behold, the power of the internets.

Remeber the cartoon, Mighty Mouse? Well that's one genetic tweak away from becoming a reality. Genetically engineering mice to be stronger, faster, with a higher metabolism, the ability to kick ass and NOT KNOWING how you're little experiment is affecting their brains? This has Pinky and the Brain catastrophe written all over it. Soon we'll have to genetically engineer snakes (on a plane) to eat all these super-mice.

Finally, Drew Carey has balls. Sure he's an overweight comedian (what makes fat funny?) that used to be a Navy Seal but decided hosting the Price is Right is his next career move. (Whose Line is it Anyway and the Drew Carey Show had their moments...that is until Wayne Brady went and choked a bitch). Now Carey is doing videos about the merits of medical marijuana. He's on his way to hosting what may arguably be the most popular show in television history but isn't shying away from his personal opinions. In a time when Imus gets canned for making a stupid joke, Dog the Bounty Hunter gets lambasted for his asshole son posting a private video conversation with a tabloid, and a kid gets tazered at a John Kerry talk, it's refreshing to see a bit of honesty in the face of popular opinion. I'd love to see the Contestant's Row prize be a half ounce of 'dro. (Closest without going over wins!) Let's face it. Half the people that watch the show are stoned college kids anyway (the other half being housewives/husbands and retirees). It's time to update the Price is Right. I want to be able to guess the price of that 2 ft, single blown Jerome Baker. Oh and don't forget to spay or neuter your pets.