—Before you even get started, let me just tell you straight out that it ain’t gonna happen today.  And that’s because, in what he’s assured me was a regrettable, one-time occurrence, the little guy had himself “an horrific Oedipal moment” (his words) that he’s sure will “scar him for life.” Without going into much detail—and without causing the poor wretch too much embarrassment—let me just say, by way of explanation,

Murtha in Iraq. COLONEL:  You write “Born to Kill” on your helmet and you wear a peace button. What’s that supposed to be, some kind of sick joke?! JOKER: No, sir. COLONEL: You’d better get your head and your *ss wired together, or I will take a giant sh*t on you! JOKER: Yes, sir. COLONEL: Now answer my question or you’ll be standing tall before the man. JOKER:  I think

Once upon a time, there lived a plodding tortoise and an excitable hare.  Now, as it happens, the two parties didn’t know each other very well—running, as they did, in different social circles—nor did they have occasion to interact in any truly substantive way, though both lived to be quite long in the tooth.  Consequently, the two never seriously debated, and so they never raced—meaning that the wisdom of a

My laptop, a 3-year old hp pavilion zd7000 (which I’ve twice had repaired after thinking it was dead), is now, officially, on its last legs.  In fact, I doubt very much it will last the week. Because I do nearly all of my blogging on my laptop (I still have a Mac G5 desktop), I’m going to need a replacement.  And because I haven’t been following along with developments in

At something called the Daily Gut.  Looks interesting. A taste: INSTAPUNDIT SAYS HILLARY IS ELECTABLE Here. Therefore, I think so too! That’s how it works, or so I’m told by people who devote a lot of time and energy to disliking Glenn Reynolds. (It’s a cottage industry!) Because all bloggers you don’t agree with must agree with each other 100% of the time, right? Ha Ha!  Poor guy. . .

In the comments to yesterday’s post on Nibras Kazimi’s New Yor Sun article, Karl excerpts what I think is an important addendum to Kazimi’s op-ed from professor of strategy and policy for the U.S. Naval War College’s Monterey Program, Donald Stoker.  In a Foreign Policy web exclusive, “Insurgencies Rarely Win – And Iraq Won’t Be Any Different (Maybe)”, Stoker writes: The cold, hard truth about the Bush administration’s strategy of

Everybody thinks that sixty-nine is all cool and stuff, but I’ll bet they can’t do it either.  I mean, how can you concentrate on what you’re supposed to be doing?

From the New York Sun (I know, may as well have been written by Bill Kristol on a sheet of two-ply toilet paper and edited by the ghost of Jeanne Kirkpatrick) comes this rather lengthy op-ed from Nibras Kazimi, ominously titled (if you happen to be, say, Barack Obama) “Turnaround in Baghdad”.  Allow me to excerpt at length: There has been a flurry of press reports recently about insurgents battling

Overheard in the parking lot of the Good Times Hamburgers off exit 229 in Brighton, 12:24 PM First guy in Chevron hat: ”Two double guacamole burgers?  And large fries?  That’s like a major coronary wrapped in wax paper, big guy.” Second guy in Chevron hat: “Maybe so.  But at least when they do the autopsy they won’t find any kind of pita and alfalfa sprout wrap in my stomach.” Second

Scott Burgess seems to have mislaid a portion of his soul, and requires your help to reunite him with it. This chick’s site is excellent.  She comments here from time to time.