… but I certainly wouldn’t kiss their belly, they’re waaaaay too furry! (And, truth, when you try to kiss a kitten — or, y’know, play with one — they usually scratch and bite and act all cute and kittenly).

Vladimir Putin’s decision to stop a small boy as he walked through the Kremlin and kiss his stomach was prompted by a desire to “touch him like a kitten,” the Russian president said on Thursday.

Putin = Crazy.

Until the most anticipated (well, by me, anyway) digital video disc release of the year.

If you were never fortunate enough to see this when it aired many years ago on FOX, add it to your Netflix queue or preorder it from Amazon. It’s sort of like Firefly in that it combines themes of westerns and sci-fi, but whereas Firefly was a western sci-fi, Brisco is a sci-fi western. Watch the DVDs, and smile — you’re about to meet your new hero.

So maybe I like memes more than I claim. So. Put your MP3 player on random, write down the titles of the first ten songs that come up, and add “in my pants” at the end of the song title. I don’t have an MP3 player, so I’ll just take advantage winamp’s shuffle feature. Suck on it.

#10 — Led Zeppelin’s “Whole Lotta Love … in my pants” (particularly the “lotta” part)
#9 — Live’s “I Alone … in my pants” (how true)
#8 — Live’s “Lightning Crashes …in my pants” (well, this is after the pants be gone, understand)
#7 — Tool’s “Sober … in my pants” (and I’m sober in my shirt and shoes, too)
#6 - The Traveling Wilbury’s “Tweeter & the Monkey Man… in my pants”
#5 — The Beastie Boy’s “Girls …in my pants” (… any volunteers?)
#4 — DMB’s “Too Much …in my pants” (seriously, I need penile reduction surgery)
#3 — LL Cool J’s “Moma Said Knock You Out …in my pants” (the alley was offered as another knock-out location)
#2 — Matisyahu’s “King Without A Crown … in my pants” (…)
#1 — The Doors’ “Touch Me … in my pants” (yes, please)

(Okay, so it turns out at first that the shuffle feature wasn’t on. I was like, “Why is it doing these in order …?” Whoops).

From CNN.com:

Prosecutors say “Dirk” requested $10,000 for the documents. “Dirk” later produced other documents that Coca-Cola confirmed were valid trade secrets of Coca-Cola and highly confidential.

He also agreed to be paid $75,000 for the purchase of a highly confidential product sample from a new Coca Cola project, prosecutors said.

Then on June 27, an undercover FBI agent offered to buy other trade secret items for $1.5 million from “Dirk.” The same day, a bank account was opened under the names of Duhaney and Dimson, and the address used on the account was that of Duhaney’s Decatur residence, prosecutors said.

Video surveillance showed Williams at her desk at Coke headquarters going through multiple files looking for documents and stuffing them into bags.

She also was observed holding a liquid container with a white label, which resembled the description of a new Coca-Cola product sample, before placing it into her personal bag, prosecutors say. Coca-Cola later verified the sample was genuine and is in fact a product being developed by the company, prosecutors added.

But, seriously, even if Pepsi had gotten hold of this information — being all unscrupulous and shit — what could they have possibly hoped to do with it? “Introducing Pepsi II — it tastes the same as Coke!”

Pepsi, by the way, sucks. (I’m talking the taste here, not the company, which I don’t give two fucking hoots about).