I love the Holiday Season if for no other reason than the politicians are back home or cavorting in New Hampshire, mugging for the cameras and spouting empty platitudes. Mostly, they’re not in Washington, not dripping condescending venom, and not legislating anything. Bliss. The next two years will be more of the same (Please note that I’m a notoriously bad predictor). There are so many presidential aspirants and sycophants that

Since I tortured you earlier with bad vocals, I thought I’d make it up to you with a little seasonal entertainment.  It wouldn’t be Christmas without a couple of Bob Rivers songs.  Enjoy. Walkin’ Round in Women’s Underwear Yellow Snow

“PEACE IN OUR TIME!!!!!” Yay, Neville! Yay, James Baker! One of the commenters at YouTube says:  Cindy Sheehan is, like, so 2004. 

As Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton continues to assess a possible presidential candidacy and the contours of a Democratic nomination fight, she has taken another step away from her 2002 vote authorizing President Bush to attack Iraq by saying that she “wouldn’t have voted that way” if she knew everything she knows now. . . . . This morning on NBC’s “Today” show, Sen. Clinton was asked about her 2002 vote

WWF: 52 new species discovered on Borneo

YOU the readers of People Magazine.  Well, not you, because you don’t read it.  But the People Who Read People, the People Peeps.  Page after page of thumbnail profiles of subscribers to the magazine, because they’re all, y’know . . . beautiful on the inside. Oh, shit.  I’ve just gotten us banned from the Department of the Exterior.

Clarice Feldman posted yesterday on the financial mismanagement at Fannie Mae, which, as she notes, is packed with Clinton appointees, and includes this rather staggering information: That article in May of this year indicated that the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight had found not only that oversight of Fannie Mae’s accounting practices were lax but that the agency had fought to keep it that way. quote: Fannie Mae reportedly

A Libyan court has sentenced five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor to death for knowingly infecting hundreds of Libyan children with HIV. . . . . Relatives of the infected children began celebrating in court as the verdict was read out, reports said.

Apparently, U.S. lawmakers intent on stifling free speech are drawing attention from across the pond: WASHINGTON, Dec. 18 /PRNewswire/—Lord Monckton, Viscount of Brenchley, has sent an open letter to Senators Rockefeller (D-WV) and Snowe (R-Maine) in response to their recent open letter telling the CEO of ExxonMobil to cease funding climate-skeptic scientists.  (http://ff.org/centers/csspp/pdf/20061212_monckton.pdf).  ……… Concludes Lord Monckton, “I challenge you to withdraw or resign because your letter is the latest

Following Dan’s post on (soon-to-be-ex) Miss USA Tara Conner’s “personal issues,” the rumors of which I summarize at my regular gig, Melissa asked for “an equal opportunity to ogle.” I do not know where you can ogle Mr. Universe, but Just Jared is celebrating Brad Pitt’s 43rd birthday with a selection of photos.  Ladies, ogle while you can, for he will soon be fat and bald.