From the Washington Post and the AP: Cheney said yesterday that the administration has no plans to close the detention facility at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, as some prominent Democrats have recommended, but other Republicans said that reports of mistreatment of prisoners there have made the prison a growing global liability. Additional information about aggressive interrogation tactics at Guantánamo surfaced yesterday, which could heighten the debate. In remarks to be broadcast

Stripes? I thought Candy stole every scene he was in, frankly. Yep. Now there was a MAN, am I right? **** cross-posted at sda, where the love just keeps on a-flowin’!

28.  Why, all the swell new friends you meet!

Recorded at Legend Studio, Pascagoula, Mississippi, June 1979, but never released.* “Play That Funky Music Jesus” Hey…do it now…yeah hey Yeah, once I was a country-girl singer…playin’ in an a southern-rock band I never had no problems, yeah…burnin’ down the one night stands And everything around me, yeah…got to start to feelin’ so low And I decided quickly [yes I did]…to let the SAVIOR into my soul SAW DEMONS dancin’

…So I need to clear some space.  DVDs for sale:  $6.50 each, 2 for $12, 3 for $16; 10 for $50 (shipping included).  All in perfect shape.  Titles below the fold.  If you’re interested, email me or drop a note in the comments.  If any of you have universal players that can play DVDs from other regions, I have a bunch of Spanish, UK, French, and Aussie titles I can

Actually, this being our fifth wedding anniversary, the wife and I are planning on having a nice meal, then kicking back and watching a movie.  So no dancing armadillo today. In fact, on special occasions like this, I like to pack the little guy into a shoebox with some mini-Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups and a bottle of Diet Pepsi, and let him spend a nice quiet evening of his own—in

From the BBC: Saddam Hussein’s lawyers say they have not yet been given any details of the case against him. Iraq’s government has said the former leader could go on trial within months over alleged crimes against humanity. But the lawyers say they have none of the estimated eight million documents relating to the case, and have not been formally told of the charges. Saddam Hussein has been allowed two

Under the proper circumstances, a broccoli crown inadvertantly scorched in the microwave can smell an awful lot like the feet of a late-twenties Scotch-Irish woman who’s just completed a spirited game of racquetball.

Ah, the American “progressivist” left: where actual Klan membership is forgiven and tacitly apologized for in favor of the kind of cheap, canned irony implicit in facile suggestions that a bit more than half of the voters in the US are the real racists, even if they don’t know it. Derrida might call such “analysis” arche-writing; me, I just find it sad when this kind of fevered partisanship cooks the

I mean, Batman…?  Please!  Give me Dudley Do-Right over some self-pitying billionaire in a cowl any day. **** cross-posted at sda.