Being a maudlin Gilbert O’Sullivan song rewritten for Allah Pundit, who’s tweeting about this Facebook page. I think that in a year from now, If I’m not feeling any less Tao, I’ll promise myself to treat myself And purchase a Guernsey cow I’m blogging on a site Where commenters think I bite; They don’t understand that my pineal gland Isn’t up for this abuse, and It’s leading me to doubt

(thanks to Frank P.)

Via AP, John Edwards acknowledges investigation into possible misuse of campaign funds that a) weren’t his and b) were collected while his wife’s cancer was in remission.

The true pandemic is . . . MANBOOBS! Alex Rodriguez has enough on his plate without this: A new book says A-Rod’s New York Yankees teammates nicknamed him “Bitch Tits,” because of his round, girly pectorals. Manboobs. They can result from anabolic steroids. On his plate? Man, that’s just awful. I don’t really know what causes them, but I’m staying away from Countdown, just to be safe. (h/t Anorak)

And yes. Sometimes I post just for me.

Laura Ingraham vs. Gloria Feldt. When feminist orthodoxy begins supporting gay men who savage women for having the wrong political opinion, it has, as Ingraham implies, become nothing more than another advocacy arm of a particular political ideology. To be an authentic woman — or at least, a women who isn’t suffering from false consciousness — one must support the political aims of those women who have established and who

Perez Hilton makes bogus copyright claim to cause YouTube to pull video of him calling Carrie Prejean a “b*tch” and a “c*nt”; Patterico reposts, will defend right to use in court if necessary. Squirm, b*tch.

by which, I’m sure, he means the second-wave type. I don’t think that we’ll have to try very hard, as Jeff’s very existence is offensive to them.

Hot on the heels of Perez Hilton’s making an annual homage to the feminine form all about him, we’ve got the odious Michael Musto on the odious Keith Olbermann’s odious show, trying to make it all about Michael Musto. The Miss Universe Pageant, of which Miss USA is a part, specifically debars transsexuals from participation, which is why it’s necessary for Musto, apparently, to claim that Miss Prejean is a