me: “Here’s the thing, HOA covenant:  If I’m only allowed to put out the one garbage can—that is, if the waste management folks will only take what I can fit into that single, subdivision-specific plastic trash bin—then all the broken down cardboard boxes and crap-stuffed Hefty bags from our move are going to have to sit there on the side of the house until such time as we stop accumulating

You have until 2pm today to respond to University of Chicago law prof, Geoffrey R. Stone. In an article in today’s Chicago Tribune, he gives a definition of what liberals believe that requires at least two brown paper sacks to get through. Unsurprisingly, he appears to be a veritable George Lakoff Mini-Me. Example: 9. Liberals believe government must protect the safety and security of the people, for without such protection

A hacker I know was prowling around the DNC servers, and he leaked a few to me.  The final ad campaign they’re preparing is just devastating.  Here’s just one example.

On a slightly offbeat track, this latest report from MEMRI on the ongoing attempt by Islamists to drag Turkey, a secular Muslim nation with a democratic tradition, back into those halcyon days of the 7th century. It suffers from being a translation but, if you just stick with it, it gets really fascinating at the end. Apparently, the Turkish military is the major obstacle standing between the democratic Turkey envisioned

there was a very poor country ruled by a strange and evil emperor, named Kim.  Kim didn’t like it that other countries didn’t take his seriously, so he threw lots of tantrums to get attention, and spent his money on pornography as his people starved.

So the dog vomited on the $700 wool rug you were hoping to return, so what?  It’s not like you can’t unfurl it in the great room and hide that horrific brick-colored blot with a coffee table or a lamp or some such. Right?

David Hasselhoff has outed KITT, the talking car that constantly upstaged him on Knight Rider. The car plans to appear on a very special episode of Dateline NBC to tell all it knows about former Rep. Mark Foley to that hunky Stone Phillips.

Evlybody prease conglaturate Nolth Kolea on successfur exprosion of nucreal device! UNITED NATIONS – The U.N. Security Council should congratulate North Korea for its nuclear test instead of passing “useless” resolutions or statements, North Korea’s U.N. ambassador said Monday. Pak Gil Yon told reporters he was proud of the North Koreans who conducted the test, and said the Security Council ought to be, too. Asked if the North planned any

I leave the US for one freakin´week, and this is what the rest of the world gets up to?  Madness, I tell you!!  Madness!! Ok, here´s the quick and dirty for the North Korean nuke test.  It is unlikely that they are testing devices intended for a small yield at this point, and are probably working on basic design validation.  Given the speculation (and likelyhood) that this was a fizzle

Fishermen catch crocodile in Rio Grande Sun Oct 8, 10:02 PM ET NUEVO LAREDO, Mexico – Mexican fishermen captured a 7.5-foot crocodile in the Rio Grande, the river that divides part of Mexico and the United States, authorities reported on Sunday. Illegal migrants from Mexico frequently swim or ride inner tubes across the Rio Grande to reach the United States. Crocodiles do not normally inhabit the river, and authorities suspect