Morons:  A top immigration official has apologized after awarding “most original costume” to a Homeland Security Department employee who dressed in prison stripes, dreadlocks and dark makeup for a Halloween gathering at the agency. Julie Myers, assistant secretary overseeing Homeland Security’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement division, was part of a three-judge panel that lauded the costume, worn by a white employee, last Wednesday. She also posed for a photo with

Celebritards provide a good thumb rule (sorry, link here):  Sometimes brevity delivers, not the soul of wit, but the sole of someone’s shoe (but not mine!).  I have little doubt the Usual Suspects will flog Glenn Reynolds for this: WHY IS THE WORLD MORE CONCERNED with Musharraf’s coup than with Hugo Chavez’s emerging dicatatorship?  Because enemies of the United States, like Chavez, get a pass. Folks who follow the link

and you regular readers of Protein Wisdom, too.  The moment you’ve been waiting for: Glamour announces its 2007 Women of the Year Awards: Jennifer Garner, Abigail Breslin, Elizabeth Edwards, Empowering Hands, Dr. Victoria Hale, The Female Presidents of the Ivy League, Donna Karan, Lara Logan, Toni Morrison, Lorena Ochoa, Mariane Pearl, Nancy Pelosi, Shonda Rhimes and Alice Waters. Voted Most Accurate Horoscope in a Women’s Magazine for three years running!

Decreasing violence in Iraq likely due to depopulation: If violence is decreasing in Iraq, it may be because insurgents “are running out of people to kill,” House Appropriations Committee Chairman David Obey (D-Wis.) said Monday. “There are fewer targets of opportunity,” Obey said in a speech to the National Press Club. As the House’s top appropriator, Obey has his hands on the nation’s purse strings, giving him a significant say on

and Mr. Clean discuss poo huffing. Disambiguation: HuffPo here. Might as well add to this thread, since I’ve probably already ruined breakfast: Slave to NY Millionaires Describes Force Feeding of Chile Peppers and Vomit I’m sorry to be so evil, and it’s undoubtedly horrible, and I abhor the behavior, but the title just cracks me up. Judge Judy + Jerry Springer = ?       Meh.  He’ll have a TV show soon.

Trenchant analysis regarding Washoe/Helen Thomas: Lately it seems it’s not a complete post unless I include some of the ugliness coming out of the hard right, and ugly is exactly the word for this misogynist post from Dan Collins at Protein Wisdom. I can understand not liking reporters who make your favorite politicians look like the chumps they are, but Helen Thomas isn’t a grandstanding ass like Russert or Matthews,

This is the first in a series of posts discussing common misconceptions.  However, since I only have one other misconception in mind to discuss, this may be a very short series. How often does one hear the phrase, “Doing the jobs Americans won’t do,” bandied about in the MSM?  How many people out there believe that is a correct statement?  Show of hands?  Those of you with your hands up,

Stephen Rittenberg has a wonderful post up at Horsefeathers in which he discusses the dangers posed by “wordsmith intellectuals,” as he calls them. He draws a line from the intellectuals of the 19th Century, through Stalin/Hitler apologist H.G. Wells, right up to today’s apologists for muslim fanatics. Here are a couple of particularly trenchant passages: Our wordsmith utopians disavow their own aggression. They feel, they care, they empathize, they are

OMAHA, Neb. – A female teacher and a 13-year-old boy believed to be on the run may have crossed the California border into Mexico, a police investigator said Friday.Paul Schwarz of the Lexington Police Department in Nebraska said the white Pontiac owned by 25-year-old Kelsey Peterson crossed into Mexico around 11 p.m. on Tuesday.Peterson, a sixth-grade math teacher and basketball coach at Lexington Middle School, fled with the boy after

Ewwww:  Blue Shield screws Kos.  Kos of the DailyKos blog lets fly at Blue Shield for the nightmarish, deceptive way that they’ve dealt with him. After lying to him and to the Anesthesiologist who helped his wife give birth for months on end Give that woman a medal! about payment of a claim, they’ve invented a new lie and used it as the basis for not paying the claim, even