My big night out this weekend is tonight, so Saturday night I was doing the laundry, etc. and periodically checking in on the thread for ”Nobody Likes A Tease, Nancy.” In the course of the thread, regular PW troll markg8 suggested the Iraq op was not supported by our troops. So I asked him why the re-enlistment rates for the Marines and the Army are so high, particularly in units

Check out Joe Malchow’s article about the RIAA’s internet extortion scam against American students at colleges and universities: Earlier this week Bloomberg reported (the story is below this post) that record companies have let loose on colleges and universities another barrage of extortion letters, each demanding around $5,000 from students. 405 of these “pre-litigation” letters went out; they were addressed to students who, the companies claim, illegally downloaded copyrighted material.

Go visit D.C., and you’ll see all around you license plates that complain of taxation without representation, and today the WaPo weighs in on the subject: WASHINGTONIANS probably could live with Republicans’ sabotaging their latest chance at congressional representation; that’s nothing new. More galling are those Republicans too gutless to admit their true position. Well, all right.  But having spent considerable time in D.C., there are some things that I’d

According to a variety of sources (see the nice roundup at Hot Air), the Iranian abduction of 15 British seamen is tied not only to the recent bust that I pointed out in the extended entry, here, but to the prior American capture of a number of Iranian operatives at a site in Irbil that Iran claimed was a consulate (a claim that ought to have been easy for Western

Supreme court ban on liberal party wipes out opposition to Putin “The march’s leaders are being called in by police and intimidated. We are half a step away from a police state,” Denis Bilunov, a member of the march’s organising committee, told the Guardian. “There isn’t much point in talking about democracy in Russia any more.” Today’s protest follows an opposition rally earlier this month in St Petersburg in which

In the late eighties, I was living in Milwaukee when GG Allin came to town.  The notorious punk rocker was famous for his onstage acts of self-inflicted injury, defecation and coprophilia.  I didn’t go to the concert, but I was told that at some point in the performance the crowd began chanting, “Poop on stage!  Poop on stage!” at the laxative and heroin abuser musician.  My friend Bob and I,

When Democrats won control of Congress last November, Speaker-in-waiting Nancy Pelosi reiterated the party’s campaign rhetoric: “Nowhere did the American people make it more clear that we need a new direction than in the war in Iraq,” the Californian told supporters in Washington. In January, she co-authored a letter to President Bush opposing the new security plan for Baghdad: Rather than deploy additional forces to Iraq, we believe the way

—Well, I know what it’s supposed to mean, sure.  But it ain’t gonna happen today.  Truth is, the little guy spent yesterday “infiltrating” the student protest march on our Capitol building, and I haven’t seen him since. My guess?— the little scoomdogger parlayed his tiny black beret, “Buck Fush” Urban Outfitters tee, scrotum piercing, and Israeli-made kibbutz sandals into a wild threesome with some wannabe politically-“engaged” high school girls.  Which

Definitely neo-conservative—with its mongrel marriage of black and brown leathers and yellow labeling offputting to paleocons, who likewise view with disdain its embrace of an open-trade policy that allows its actual assembly to take place in China.  Not to mention that there’s something vaguely Jew-sounding about “Glovesmith.” Still, in my experience, no moderate or centrist glove is secure enough in its convictions to commit to triple-stitched welting or branded break

Hot. Where do I buy lust offsets? Unrelated: Man, I just don’t even know how to respond. What I think I think about Edwards. First, I’m sorry about his wife. Second, whatever his decison is, he’s right. Third, as a voter, even if I were ever attracted to vote for the guy, which I’m not, I’d have serious misgivings.  If it were my spouse, I would expect to be extremely