Don’t know about the gun, but that carpet! Absolutely yummy! Snaps. **** update: I’m picturing deep orange antiqued walls done with polished plaster and an oil glaze. Maybe some crackle in the corner. We’re talking a room so bad you’ll have to spank it twice a day just to keep it from running off with a much cooler house. Grrrrrrowl. Double snaps.

Newsweek’s Evan Thomas makes a surprising admission: “[…] And not only does the mainstream media want Kerry and Edwards to win come November, but it’s really into swinging and wife swapping, too. Particularly the New York Times, which, let me tell you, it’s like a John Updike novel over there. Seriously. We’re talking orgy central.”* *Most of this is made up. But then, so is a lot of the crap

From James Taranto, today’s BOTW: Ralph Nader says Rep. Melvin Watt flung an “obscene racist epithet” at him during a meeting last month. The ex-Green is seeing red because the Congressional Black Caucus member purportedly called him a “f—ing arrogant white man.” What actually happened is something of a gray area, though at least neither of them can be accused of brown-nosing. The Associated Press reports (third item) that a

Lunch Wednesday: a six egg, 14-cheese omelet topped with chopped green onions, grated parmesan, a pinch of sage, and a stick of frozen butter. Served over a bed of thick-cut onion rings and summer sausage medallions brushed with cream cheese. For dessert: anything you can lop off of a horse. Trivia: Smarty Jones became the 18th horse to lose a Triple Crown bid at Belmont. 0 net carbs.

Ted Rall is still an idiot out of his fucking mind.*

“Once upon a time, there was a young lawyer with fabulous locks who could read the minds of unborn children with cerebral palsy…”

“Once upon a time, there was a young lawyer with fabulous locks who could read the minds of unborn children with cerebral palsy…”

From Bloomberg news: A suspected al-Qaeda loyalist surrendered to Saudi authorities under the kingdom’s amnesty offer to wanted militants, the Saudi government said. Khalid bin Odeh bin Mohammed al-Harbi, also known as Abu Suleiman al-Makki, surrendered at the Saudi Embassy in Tehran, becoming the third suspect to do so under the royal amnesty. He had been living along the Iranian-Afghan border, according to a statement issued by the Saudi Embassy

From Bloomberg news: A suspected al-Qaeda loyalist surrendered to Saudi authorities under the kingdom’s amnesty offer to wanted militants, the Saudi government said. Khalid bin Odeh bin Mohammed al-Harbi, also known as Abu Suleiman al-Makki, surrendered at the Saudi Embassy in Tehran, becoming the third suspect to do so under the royal amnesty. He had been living along the Iranian-Afghan border, according to a statement issued by the Saudi Embassy

Exports surge. Trade gap narrows. Second-quarter growth estimates revised upward. Ace has all the particulars. Which is good, because the mainstream press doesn’t seem to care all that much. Meanwhile, Kerry and Edwards inch toward protectionism, and gaggles of the googly-eyed Democratic Prelletariat giggle like schoolchildren at the thought of John-John hugs and Diet Coke appreciation. They moon over Teresa’s shiny, irreverent independence.* It’s official: the Democratic party is the