The makers of the bio documentary  “Ted Williams” (HBO, 9:30 p.m.), face the delicate task of upholding the noblest aspects of the Red Sox hero’s amazing abilities on the field while not glossing over his sometimes prickly personality or the messy family situation in older age and death.  There was no way not to include the unusual, cryogenic end of him, but that controversy doesn’t dominate his achievements, summarized in the film subtitle “There Goes the Greatest Hitter That Ever Lived.” He was the last player to hit over .400 over a full season and famously hit a homer in his last game, 49 years ago.

Financial seer Jim Cramer, in a clip on the Daily Show, naming Lenny Dykstra, now proceeding through bankruptcy court, “one of the great ones” in the investment business. The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c Lenny Dykstra’s Financial Career www.thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor Joke of the Day

This is great. Stewart takes one not one but two of the people I hate most in the world, Jim Cramer and Lenny Dykstra… The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c Lenny Dykstra’s Financial Career www.thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor Joke of the Day

This is great. Stewart takes one not one but two of the people I hate most in the world, Jim Cramer and Lenny Dykstra… The Daily Show With Jon StewartMon – Thurs 11p / 10cLenny Dykstra’s Financial Careerwww.thedailyshow.comDaily Show Full EpisodesPolitical HumorJoke of the Day

Stewart broke down the fact that Obama nominated a “racist” for the Supreme Court in Sonia Sotomayor. He then explained how this is going to confuse the living hell out of the Republican Senators since they agree with her racism, but they don’t agree with her race. Read More…

The Daily Grind – weeklystandard.com 07/15/2009 Introducing your new right to health care. Introducing your new 50+% top tax rate. The flow-chart for the Dem health-care plan. The WaPo editorial page: “House Democrats would have us believe that the rich can pay for it all.” In the words of none other than Jon Stewart: “That’s great. Now, fix the economy.” “If she was not perjuring herself, she is intellectually unqualified to be on the Supreme Court.

Finance involves math, so it’s always been a nerd’s game. That’s why it was a great victory for jocks everywhere when Lenny Dykstra proved even a dim, slovenly, allegedly racist and homophobic ex-athlete could become a successful investor. And if it anyone was due for a victory in a post -Revenge of the Nerds America, it was the jocks. But much like a fist-sized hunk of chaw, it was not meant to last.

Have you been watching the Sonia Sotomayor confirmation hearings? Us either! It’s all just so damn … boring ! But the Daily Show has been watching and Jon Stewart had fun with some of the clips last night. Seriously though, remember when confirmation hearings were political knife fights where people got “Borked” and grilled for days over comments about pubic hairs on a coke cans? We yearn for those days to return. For now we get Chuck Schumer crying. Sigh.

10 Quickie Quotes About Twitter – neatorama.com 07/15/2009 For more Bizarro, definitely checkout Dan Piraro’s website and blog Love it or hate it, Twitter has certainly taken the web by storm. In just a few short years, the social networking/micro-blogging website has grown to be one 50 most popular website in the world. As much as I am fascinated with Twitter (though I’m a bad Twitterer, Neatorama’s Official Twitter is not as frequently updated as the blog), I’m more interested