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“Radical moderates” and the “free speech” of “partisan tolerance”
From the Washington Times, “Free speech for bloggers”: Here’s our advice to the Federal Election Commission regarding Internet regulations: Tread lightly. If the federal government must apply campaign-finance laws, specifically McCain-Feingold, to the Internet as a federal judge ruled last fall, it should do so with as light a touch as possible. Unfortunately, no matter what the FEC decides, there’s a chance that the days of unbridled political discourse on
Closing arguments in the Michael Jackson trial, abridged
Prosecution: “He’s a forty-six year old man who sleeps with little boys. Drunk little boys. With porn next to the bed, and more in a secret room. His best friend is a monkey.” Defense: “Fine, sure. But the accuser’s mother is a scam artist. Quite nuts, to boot. I mean, look at her! What a conniving shrew, am I right?” Prosecution rebuttal: “Did I mention the guy sleeps with little
Odd, Ends
Is Gary Linderer, president and co-founder of Operation Homecoming USA (the organization behind “Welcome Home… America’s Tribute to Vietnam Veterans”), a Vietnam fabulist? Kevin Aylward investigates. The latest issue of The Neolibertarian Journal is now available from Jon Henke and crew at QandO. Cambodian noodle soup? Delicious—even if the strange little Asians insist on floating entire basil plants right there on the broth’s surface. Confederate Yankee doesn’t think much of
a half-hearted attempt to reassert my conservative bona fides, 2: Top 20 answers to the question, “Don’t liberals, like, really suck?"*
“Yes.” “Absolutely they do.” “Of course.” “Do they suck? Dude! Why do you even have to ask?” “They suck like vaccuum cleaners, baby.” “Ha! Do they EVER!” “Si.” “You’re darn tootin,’ Geech!” “HUGH HEWITT IS MY MASTER!” “Does Michael Jackson like to jack off little boys?” (Tie) “Word up, my nizzle” / “Like Michael Moore on a barbecue spare rib.” “I’m pretty sure, yes. But let me check with Sean
“Perfidy”: a protein wisdom sudden fiction
“You really don’t trust me, do you?” she asked, lighting a cigarette and taking a long first drag. “Not for a second,” he said. “Why, should I?” She shrugged. “Up to you, I guess—though relationships are built on trust. At least, that’s what they say.” “’They,’ eh? Well, I don’t trust them much either, if it’s any consolation.” She smiled, letting smoke slip slowly from the corners of her mouth.
Random Cat Blogger thought, Wednesday, June 1, 3:06 PM EST
…you wanna know who is a real moderate? Mr. Whiskers. Mr. Whiskers is a real moderate. Hell, that cat’d probably even befriend a field mouse if he thought it’d get him a few extra strokes and a dose of ‘nip. And that’s just, y’know…so admirable…
A self-styled South Park conservative response to self-styled “radical moderate” preening
Christie Todd Whitman, the former Republican governor of New Jersey and a former administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, uses the Washington Post‘s letters page to patiently explain to those of us who believe that all of the President’s judicial nominees should receive up or down votes why we’re too dumb to realize what’s in our best political interests. Which, thank the heavens that Christie’s ideological proxies in the US
If instead of going On The Road, famed Beat writer Jack Kerouac spent the early 1950s as an Ivy League English professor specializing in Victorian literature
Kerouac: “…Of course, the title itself is ironic. I mean, Pip, you’ll recall, never does lay his frank and beans on Estella, and Miss Havisham’s ruined coos, symbolized by the dusty, cobwebbed room in which she keeps herself, is a rotting nest of spite and regret—so, y’know, it ain’t like Pip is gonna hit that shit, either…”
9 rejected names Bob Woodward ALMOST used for his Watergate source, “Deep Throat”
“Bobby and Carl’s Lifetime Meal Ticket” “The Walrus” “That Information Leaker Guy” “Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope” “Fuck Gordon Liddy and His Gang of Military-Industrial Complex Thugs” “Feltsie” “Marky Mark and the New Kids of Righteous Liberal Justice Meted Out Against Fascist Right Wing Autocrats and Their Stooge Flunkies” “Behind the Green Door” “Deep Space 9” **** link roundup here; videotape of statement from Felt’s grandson here.
