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Confession time. I believe that one of the most genius sites on the interwebs is the precisely titled Hot Chicks with Douchebags. (warning not terribly NSFW) The founder of the site, Douchebag1, receives pictures from readers of beautiful womens paired with guys who are douchebags. Lots of websites attempt to arouse and amuse their male readership in one place, and this site is probably the most honest, direct and successful at it.

It's well written and very funny. There is something strangely poetic and philosophical in DB1's quest to find the platonic form of the perfect chica matched with an appallingly preening, gesturing, greasy, oft-orange douchebag. And to speak movingly about how wrong it is. This is hard to explain without pictures, so I guess I will send you directly to some of the HCwDB immortals such as Fish Slap, Joey Porsche, Oompa Prompa, and Millenium Bag. (yeah, there is some vulgar language in those links and the ones below too, if you are the delicate flower).

Recently, DB1 declared that Deion Sanders has earned a place in the Hallowed Hall of Retro Douche. The case is made with the above YouTube video and DB's discussion and reader comments on same. It is nearly impossible to watch that entire video. I couldn't and now I have that "song" as a ear worm. "Must be the money....that's turning them on." Exactly. You've been warned.

Thanks to DB1 for bringing attention to the menace of global douchebaggery, and good luck with your upcoming HCwDB book.

"When the end of the world comes, I want to be in Cincinnati because it's always twenty years behind the times." -Mark Twain

Cincinnati deserves to be dumped on a times. It's a nice city with great tradition, interesting people and their own ways of doing things ... but this comment attributed to Mark Twain pretty much should be the caption underneath the Nati's skyline. Cincy operates in it's own little world and anything from outside doesn't resonate too well here. As a transplant from Charlotte, leaving the city to see my family makes me feel as if I'm leaving the woods and revisiting the outside world again. Sorry, guys, but I'm one of the few people that actually moved to the Cincinnati area ... not from.

That's where ESPN Radio's Colin Cowherd comes in. Cowherd's show, The Herd with Colin Cowherd, spent several minutes ripping the city of Cincinnati [you can listen to the rant here]. Cowherd does a number on the city by commenting on a news story about an airplane forced to land because a smoker goes crazy. That flight was from Cincinnati to Hawaii ... and Cowherd just runs smack all over the city. Listen to it, and you can't fight him on it.

He calls out the entire town, including the sports scene. The Bengals arrests, Bobby Huggins running a rogue Bearcat program, Marge Schott and Pete Rose fire-storming the biggest gambling scandal in baseball. He also talks about Hustler's Larry Flynt being from the city and former mayor Jerry Springer. And he, of course, touched off on the current mayor of Cincinnati's pitch on Monday:

"What is it with Cincinnati? ... For how small a city it is, is it me or does Cincinnati have a disproportionate number of bottom-feeders and low-level gutterballs?"

"Jerry Springer, Pete Rose, the Bengals, Bob Huggins, wild chick on an airplane, Larry Flynt ... They're not serial killers, they just have no class."

"I mean, it's just boring. People get in trouble. It's just boring."

"A similar sized city is Hartford. Charlotte. They're not in the news this much."

"Just a mess."