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Another moment of unabashed pragmatism

Sure, I can go out in the heat and check the mail. But then, with about as much effort, I can whip up a pitcher of frozen margaritas and a BLT — an added benefit being that neither the margaritas nor the BLT will refer me to a payment schedule or rub their obscenely accrued interest in my face. A no brainer, this one is.

Wonder Twin Powers, activate: shape…of a three cheese enchilada!

Is it just me, or does anyone else find it difficult — after watching the video and reading Allah’s take on “The Beltway Boys’” absurd defense of Lindsay Graham and the (thankfully) dead Immigration Reform bill — not to picture Fred Barnes and Mort Kondracke, masked and stuffed like a couple of limp old sausages into tights and capes, zipping through the skies around Capitol Hill and unleashing their “rhetorical

Schools, race, "diversity," and "compelling interest," revisited

I’ve had an interesting exchange with Karl and (yes) Shine in the comment thread to yesterday’s post on the 5-4 SCOTUS ruling that would, on the surface at least, restrict the use of “race” (as a substantive deliminator) in K-12 school settings — an exchange I wish to highlight, because I think it touches on many of the issues that arise from Justice Kennedy’s (to my mind, at least) troubling

"Explosives-Packed Car Defused in London"

Via Darleen and Mushiloon, looks like the insurgent jihadi freedom fighters are serving notice to Britain’s new Labour Party Prime Minister that, like Spain before them, Britain should take the opportunity of political change to rationalize their way out of Iraq: Police in London’s bustling nightclub and theater district on Friday defused a bomb that could have killed hundreds, after an ambulance crew spotted smoke coming from a Mercedes filled

a post that highlights the softer side of protein wisdom

Sometimes, on cold nights, I like to sit in front of a cozy fire with a Tawny port and my dog, Bo, listening to Tchaikovsky’s “Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf” and roasting butter and cinnamon-stuffed Granny Smith apples. Then — if the night is clear and the mood is just right — I like to touch myself with a hank of beef jerky, or maybe even a s’more,

Grutter Politics?

Over at SCOTUSblog, Tom Goldstein has a balanced take on today’s Supreme Court combined decision in Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District and Meredith v. Jefferson County Board of Education (Judge Roberts writes for the 5-4 majority). From what I can glean from the excerpts I’ve read of Justice Kennedy’s concurrence, his opinion — representing the controlling vote (on Parts III-B and IV (?); Mark’s Rule is

"Convicted killer's bid for sex change draws big costs"

Massachusetts: so cutting edge that it often runs the risk of slicing off its own nose to spite its progressive face. Case in point, from the AP: A trial that opened more than a year ago has become bogged down in Boston federal court. There have been hundreds of hours of testimony from witnesses, including 10 medical specialists paid tens of thousands of dollars. The judge himself even hired an

From the AP/Rocky Mountain News: "Hilton calls jail 'traumatic,' but says it helped her grow"

Now, were I Ace, I’d probably say something like, “Gee, I sure hope it wasn’t the kind of ‘growth’ that comes with an inaugural fisting.”* But I’m not, so I won’t. Thankfully, some of us have standards. **** glass half full update: To make room for Paris, Larry King bumped Michael Moore. Meaning that propaganda was bumped for shallow plasticity — a step forward, if you ask me. Moore’s next

Shamnesty Shocker: Senate feels the heat, beats retreat

53-46. Here’s the roll. Allah liveblogged the thing — leaving me time to concentrate on the important issues like Liz and JohnJohn — and breaks out the humping robot. Of course, as Nanonymous notes in another thread, we are essentially celebrating the last of the President’s political capital having been pissed away. And, may I add, on something engineered in large part by Teddy Kennedy — who is as impervious

"U.S. Bill Rally Says Bush Is Doing `A Heck of a Job' "

Well, if we put aside the Immigration Reform Bill and an unwillingness on the part of Bushco to adequately defend themselves against years of unrelenting falsehoods and misimpressions, that is. Still, from Bloomberg News: Among the markets that say President George W. Bush is doing “a heck of a job,” the one he can take the most satisfaction from is U.S. Treasury bills. That’s because the unexpected surge in tax