Bummer.  New Zealand, so it’s probably not biased, dudes.  It’s all good, though.  A little doob will take the edge off of the nausea from the chemo. 

Excitable Andy was “horrified” (though not gobsmacked) by the State of the Union speech: The contrast between the banal cheeriness of the president’s demeanor and the grave threats he faces was unsettling. This from the blogger who advocates fighting Islamism with more confidence and less fear. Sully apparently has not considered that he and his fellow travelers have helped to push public opinion toward apathy over the threats we face,

Kos asks libertarians to jump on the FISA issue.  At Reason magazine’s aptly-named Hit & Run blog, David Weigel’s response is, “How high?” Weigel writes that “Reason has been on the FISA beat for a while,” which is another way of saying “not heavy on the surveillance beat since the 1970s,” but sharing Kos’s aversion to the current administration. Weigel was so eager to jump in bed with the Kossacks

According to Lori Robertson and Jess Henig of factcheck.org: On the eve of the crucial Florida GOP primary, John McCain is attacking Mitt Romney with some out-of-context or misleading statements on radio and the Internet. Marc Ambinder questions whether some of McCain’s last-minute robocalls are gay-baiting. At Captain’s Quarters, Cap’n Ed correctly notes that “distortions and context shifts form the bread and butter of (political) advertising,” and notes that the ads

Where did they come from?  Russia?  Anne Applebaum asks this question in an article that, while admittedly frivolous, nevertheless enlightens us on the subject of . . .  I haven’t the vaguest idea what she’s yammering about, but it’s about hawt Russian women. And while we’re on this subject, I just want to take issue with Keith Olbermann’s characterization of Mary Katharine as the Worst Person in the World.  It’s true

Austin: I guess he really lost his head. I suppose he’ll never be the head of a large corporation. It’s a shame, he really had a good head on his shoulders. A 37-year-old Birmingham man has pleaded guilty to plotting to kidnap and kill a British soldier. Parviz Khan, an unemployed charity worker, intended to seize and behead the unnamed Muslim serviceman “like a pig”, Leicester Crown Court was told.

When it comes down to the wire, people want a little horse race, so let’s have at it.  The last polls from Survey USA and InsiderAdvantage still show Sen. John McCain and Mitt Romney in a virtual dead heat — and Rudy Giuliani and Mike Huckabee on virtually dead horses.  However, as with the polls for the Democrats in South Carolina, differences in polling methods lead to different overall numbers and

Score one for the cynical take on Bill Clinton’s recent use of racial politics on behalf of Sen. Hillary Clinton’s campaign, courtesy of the New York Times: While the blogosphere and commentariat rang this weekend with angry declarations that he had crossed a line in his criticism of Barack Obama, many in Harlem seemed to mull it over, shrug their shoulders and say they understood, even if they didn’t quite

of the NYT, featuring more . . . rejiggering.

BFD.  They’ve been advertizing “male enhancement” for years. Meanwhile, our guy Matthew Rager is beginning his third session of chemo.  Prayers gratefully accepted.