Mr. Adult Guy: But in politics, as in so many areas of human endeavor, the choice is not between good and evil but between something not so good and something worse. Some of my conservative friends are so horrified by the prospect of a McCain Presidency that they have threatened to take their marbles and go home, i.e., to vote for Obama, or even for Lady Macb—, I mean, for

1. purchase chips 2. and maybe some hummus 3. (unless you aren’t really all that health conscious, in which case you may want to go with a jalapeno cheese dip 4. — though that won’t win you any of Mike Huckabee’s love. 5. except maybe if you really, really dig Jesus, that is. 6. because then it’s probably a wash). 7. Amen. 8. But I digress. 9. So, to recap:

Hey, baby: Want to see my stimulus package? This is the latest in the Administration’s history of turning “record surpluses into record deficits,” declared Majority Leader Harry Reid, while Senate Budget Chairman Kent Conrad warned about “more deficit-financed tax cuts tilted to benefit the wealthiest.”  Lost amid the faux political outrage is the direct role that these worthies are playing in creating this larger deficit, thanks to the bipartisan $150

In the Weekly Standard, Tom Donnelly has an excellent piece up about the cartoony views of the war that Hollywood has been trying to peddle: In the launch issue of the new journal World Affairs, George Packer, longtime foreign affairs correspondent for the New Yorkeroffers important insights into this paradox. Packer is both an experienced and honest Iraq reporter and a longtime critic of Bush policy, so he is perhaps one of the

That is the conclusion of Chris Bowers at OpenLeft, after crunching the likely range of numbers after Super-Duper Tuesday: (I)n order to win the nomination without the aid of super delegates, in her best-case scenario after Super Tuesday, Clinton would need to win 76.2% of all remaining pledged delegates. Given our proportional delegate system, there is simply no way that is going to happen unless Obama drops out. Bowers then

At RCP, Jay Cost addresses the argument that Sen. John McCain’s victories in the early states have been due to the conservative vote being split among many candidates.  After a brief primer on “social choice” theory and crunching the exit poll numbers, Cost concludes: …I do not think one can argue that McCain’s wins have been dependent on a divided field. Independents, moderates, and Bush disapprovers have certainly formed the backbone

As the WGA strike has left television with little more than reruns of Battle of the Network Stars, the broadcast nets are expanding their Super-Duper Tuesday TV coverage, while the cable nets are going wall-to-wall-to-wall with it.  Even MTV will break into its programming with video reports from its 51 “citizen journalists” stationed around the country — though I do not believe our esteemed host will be among them. I generally try to

You can’t handle the truth! In a surprise announcement on this morning’s Rick Dees show, Oscar-winning actor Jack Nicholson endorsed Hillary Clinton for president… Rick Dees?

If you haven’t checked it out, do so.  Another Belmont Playboys video is here.

If that is your bag.  Jaxon Burns, a friend of Matthew Rager’s family, is undergoing a liver transplant in the wee hours of this morning.  Please pray for him, his family, and the surgeon, if so the spirit moves you.  Bill’s Bites breast bleg.