That’s right, the Supreme Court has just expanded the government’s right to seize private property for “the public good”—which, in the case of New London, Connecticut, means tearing down people’s homes in order to make way for a Pfizer office complex: [Lawyers representing the Connecticut home owners] argued that cities have no right to take their land except for projects with a clear public use, such as roads or schools,

“Ow, fuck!  Jesus!” *

Just shelled out $63.57 on eBay for the red, white, and blue cotton bandana Charlie Daniels used to mop the flop sweat from his brow during the first ever Sean Hannity Freedom Concert.  I’m also the current high bidder for Leanne Rimes’ empty Dasani bottle, so, y’know—keep your fingers crossed.

Dissent being the height of patriotism, Ted Kennedy (D-MASS) today confronted Donald Rumsfeld with what he insisted was the undeniable fact of an intractable Iraqi QUAGMIRE and called for the Secretary of Defense to resign—thus reserving his place in the pantheon of Great American Patriots Who Love This Country So Damn Much That They Strengthen It By Forcing Us to Beat Back A Propaganda Attack That They Themselves Have Spearheaded

..So I need to clear some space.  And besides, advertising revenues are so far down lately that protein wisdom is running on the memory of money.  DVDs for sale:  $6.50 each, 2 for $12, 3 for $16; 10 for $50 (shipping included on all).  All in perfect shape.  Titles below the fold. 

Here.  Here‘s Martha these days.  And not surprisingly, it’s still all potpouri and nipples with that woman.

Today’s lunch: an 18-ounce tenderized veal cutlet, rolled in a mixture of 2 eggs (beaten), 4 tbsp melted butter, white pepper, and fresh oregano—pan-seared in chorizo fat and wrapped in 8 strips hickory smoked bacon.  With a raw red and green pepper medley. Let the pound-shedding begin!

Q: Why did the chicken cross the road? A: Glenn Reynolds paid it $20 to watch it “shake that sweet little chicken ass for me, you nasty fowl bitch.”

One chicken was dead.  Its head was oddly twisted, stuck between the rusty wires of a knee-high fence.  Its eyes, such as they were, fixed on nothing.  The other chickens pranced by it occasionally, but they had long ago forgotten about the dead chicken.  They were still very much alive. ******** Normally, Jimmy would drive his full-size Dodge Ram at breakneck speed along Route 70, but today he had to

Nancy Pelosi and other Democrats are now claiming (rather too adamantly for my tastes) that they support the troops serving in Guantanamo Bay—which, it follows, then, that they are not prepared to blame actual camp guards for the what they insist is the egregious and systematic torture of Islamic freedom fighters being detained there, but rather wish instead to hold accountable only those higher-ups in the military and Defense Department