Archive for: May 2008

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Updated: Bob Dole continues in his e-mail to Scott McClellan:
“In my nearly 36 years of public service I’ve known of a few like you,” Dole writes, recounting his years representing Kansas …

Getting out-surrendered by Iran.
Whatever the military success, and progress that may have been made, the surge didn’t accomplish its goal. And some of the success of the surge is that the goodwill of the Iranians-they decided in Basra when …

I question the taste level.

This is from Cold Fury, h/t Brian at 6MB.

Pretty much sums up the crossroads we’re approaching. Maybe a change to Apocryphal Obama’s finger, with some BLT on the side, eh? Since we’re temporarily whipping radical …

Seems the International Spase Station’s toilet is broke. Busted. No workie.

At least on the “liquid” side. Seems the number 2 doohickey is A-OK.

They’re rushing up a plumber on the next shuttle flight, or maybe a sanitation engineer, with a replacement …

I wanted to post this earlier, but between this weekend’s extended North Carolina whitewater paddle-clinginess ‘maxi-mini’ vacation and the prior weekend spent at the NRA Convention in Louisville, well, time’s been as scarce as cheap gasoline.

The Tennessee GOP responded …

 I noted something among my subjects, a sense of entitlement, they all, to varying degrees, emitted a message along the lines of “Why are you bothering me with this silly interview? I am obviously brilliant. I have a degree from …

Nishi, I know and respect what was once called the “public intellectual.” Believe me, Obama is not a public intellectual in the Lionel Trilling mold. If you had any familiarity with Trilling you would laugh out loud …

The custom of wearing neckties developed in Iran during the Shah’s regime. However, in the wake of the 1979 Islamic revolution, ties were banned by authorities because they were perceived as a sign of westernization. Since then, senior Iranian …

Well, actually, you could if you weren’t a babbling idiot.