Embellishment

The National Hockey League's Rule 61.1 on Diving/Embellishment states:

"Any player who blatantly dives, embellishes a fall or a reaction, or who feigns an injury shall be penalized with a minor penalty under this rule." 

A handful of hockey players are notorious for this kind of nonsense, but they have nothing over soccer players.

38th Voyage of the Charles W Morgan

A 173-year-old whaleship, the Charles W Morgan, arrived under full sail into Vineyard Haven harbor on Martha's Vineyard last week. The trip was the ship's first in nearly a century, after 37 voyages that set the Morgan's crew after sperm whales around the world.

When boarding, you smell the pine tar still used to seal the seams of the ship's original oak deck. Today's crew sleeps in the original crew quarters. The captain's cabin features a gimbal bed to keep it level in rough seas.

Alas, I couldn't find a good place to stow away.

And, if you're worried that whales no longer capture our imagination, here's this week's New Yorker magazine cover. Yes, it says "Cap'n Ahab's - A "whale" of a burger!"

Bruce McCall ~ The New Yorker

Woulda coulda shoulda

Helluva season and finals.

Trading Private Bergdahl

The usual gang of idiots at MAD Magazine nailed it.

Once again, Susan Rice "breaks faith with the American public."

White House Rose Garden photo opp

The Boys of Pointe du Hoc

Why, why did you do it?

"While we braved these then-fortified beaches to beat back Hitler and to liberate Europe . . . we fought for much more than that. We fought to preserve what our forefathers had died for . . . to protect our faith, to preserve our liberty. I pray that the price we paid on this beach will never be mortgaged, that my grandsons and granddaughters will never face the terror and horror that we faced here. But they must know that without freedom, there is no life and, that the things most worth living for, may sometimes demand dying for."

 Second Lieutenant Walter Ehlers ~ Medal of Honor recipient