Archive for: March 2007

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When Perugina, the Italian chocolate company that invented “baci,” chocolate kisses, expanded its repertoire to include chocolate vaginas (“peruvagine”), feminist outrage was swift and sure.  “It’s an insult to women,” said Amanda Marcotte of …

****Cross-Posted from Bloody Scott****

Notorious for his admissions of not getting any, Ace of Spades reveals that he is in fact the inventor of …

Warning! The following is for adults only! “Congress Gone Wild” just got wilder! It’s “Congress Gone Wild” on Spring Break! Madame Speaker Pelosi will be doing Jay Leno and Rahm Emanuel is bringing his comedy act to the Gridiron Dinner, leaving those freshman Dems to explain why none of the early six bills pushed by House Democrats has yet been signed into law!

Watch these wacky Congresspeople try to explain why they are on Spring Break until April 16—one day after the Pentagon says it must get the emergency funding for troop operations in Iraq and Afghanistan in order to avoid cutbacks.  Sure, these kooky kids commissioned their budget office to say the Army could continue to wage war through July without additional funding from Congress.  But this kind of disruption to key programs would have a genuinely adverse effect on the readiness of the Army and the quality of life for soldiers and their families. Whoo-hoo!

Maybe they are planning to stock up on Red Bull and pull an all-nighter to fund our troops when they get back to DC after all that important fundraising and golfing.  But it looks like the issues Dems have to hammer out among themselves are not likely to get resolved overnight. Gnarly!

I could write my shopping list in pen, sure.  But if I do it in pencil, I can always erase the item, 2 bottles Lagavulin 16-year-old Scotch and a footlong summer sausage, should my wife sneak into the office and …

From Jeff Taylor, “Blogged Down,” in the May 2007 issue of Reason (subscription only):

In the last few months, legislators in both Texas and Tennessee have explored the idea of slapping blogs with special “online defamation” regulations.

A Tennessee proposal, pushed …

Thanks again to all of you who contributed during my recent fundraising drive.  I’ve been trying to figure out a way to get my emails ported over to the Powerbook I’m using so that I can respond to each of …

Dr Helen has an interesting post up in which she disputes the conclusions drawn by the authors of a British study which found that women are angrier than men.  Writes Dr H:

The researchers speculate …

From the AP, “US official says Russia ramping up espionage”:

Russia has fully restored its espionage capabilities against the United States after a period of decline following the Cold War, a senior US …

“Sometimes, when the mood

is just right, I like to have

myself.  In the spring.”

Brace yourselves, kids.  Because once Ms O’Donnell gets rolling, she’s as committed to her anti-Bush dementia as Sisyphus was to his rock.

Frankly, it’s almost heroic, in sad, gulled kind of way.  Think Persephone in horrific stretchpants and …