Archive for: April 2006

April 30, 2006

My thirteenth brief conversation with the ghost of John Merrick

Merrick:  “I AM NOT AN ANIMAL”

Me:  ”Really?  You might want to rethink that, pal.  Seems Pam Anderson has kind of a thing for animals.  And if her internet video work is any indication, she can do things to you with …

“W.H. Correspondents Dinner: Bush Kills, Colbert Bombs”

Filed under: Uncategorized - 30 Apr 2006

Video at Hot Air

Writes Allah:

Tough night for Colby, who must have regarded this gig as a chance to play the Super Bowl on his home field. Watch the clip and see for yourself whom the crowd …

In which I discuss hermeneutics with a leftover steamed dumpling from last night’s dim sum meal, 5

steamed dumpling: “In remarks to the American Enterprise Institute, Justice Scalia, speaking on the topic of imposing foreign law on Americans, said:  ‘I expect, and fear, that the Court’s use of foreign law in the interpretation of our …

April 29, 2006

“Another Saturday Afternoon in the Life of an Evil Reactionary Bush Apologist”: a protein wisdom sudden fiction

Filed under: Uncategorized - 29 Apr 2006

     ”Honey?  What’s say we put on those INS caps I picked up on eBay, head down to Wash Park, and stop Hispanic-looking people at random to demand they ‘show us their papers’?

“Because Christ, do I ever love the expressions on …

Nuclear Midnight

Filed under: Uncategorized - 29 Apr 2006

Stop the ACLU’s John Stephenson points to this impressive and thorough Yankee Sailor post, “Nuclear Deterrence in the Age of Terrorism,” which examines in some detail the familiar arguments for deterrence, and extrapolates …

April 28, 2006

It’s dance time, baby!  Bring on the funky land lobster—

Filed under: Uncategorized - 28 Apr 2006

—Not gonna happen today, sadly.  The little fellow, as it happens, is down in Texas to attend the funeral of a cousin, who rumor has it polished off eight bottles of Pink Grapefruit-flavored Mad Dog 20/20 before wandering out onto …

“The yin and yang of intimate interpersonal relationships post, 23” (from the protein wisdom conceptual series)

Filed under: from the protein wisdom conceptual series - 28 Apr 2006

yin:  “I was thinking about making some stuffed truffles for dinner.  Would you prefer a crabmeat stuffing, or feta and basil with sundried tomatoes?”

yang:  “If you’re asking me honestly, I’d say I prefer we skip the truffles altogether …

Sure, it’s idiotic.  But at least he’s going about it correctly.

Filed under: NSA / FISA - 28 Apr 2006

From AP/Breitbart, “Sen. Specter Threatens to Block NSA Funds”:

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter said Thursday he is considering legislation to cut off funding for the Bush administration’s secret domestic wiretapping program until he gets satisfactory answers about …

“No Way to Treat a Relative”

Filed under: Uncategorized - 28 Apr 2006

Actress and Honorary Chair for PETA, Pamela Anderson—yes, she of “Baywatch” and a moutful of Tommy Lee fame—has penned (in eyeliner, presumably) an op-ed for today’s WSJ that decries the use of real chimpanzees by Hollywood.

Let’s have a …

Some Liberals Sense of Snow

Filed under: Uncategorized - 28 Apr 2006

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From the National Journal’s Hotline, an transcript of yesterday’s White House press gaggle with Scott McClellan, where a reporter (Jim VandeHei?) — likely an acolyte of Juan Cole …

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