“– But officer, I can assure you that what you refer to as my ‘perverted’ coupling with that fire hydrant was not only tender and meaningful, but completely consensual, to boot…”

And if I were differently melanized, I’d agree with him.  Then again, maybe I just don’t understand urban affairs the way Monica Conyers and Adolpho Carrion do. Via Dan Riehl: Cartoon Obama, bankers at your beck, wonder how you’ll manage to wreck the rest. (aka Captain O!merdica) Faustina lente: Mark Joey Hairplugs’ words, he’ll be tested early on. Fellow OUTLAW criticized, marginalized. Breitbart goes OUTLAW on Maher.

But I removed it. Iowahawk’s cool and all, but three posts plus all those breathless email updates is plenty enough, and there’s really only so much space one blog should devote to Iowahawk that isn’t called, y’know — Iowahawk.

From the comments in the previous thread, happyfeet: Jon Stewart is smug. It’s like an I’m a tv bimbo ha ha and you’re not sort of smug. But if he for real doesn’t know that he’s the Cramer of politics butcept on a less prestigious channel then his agent just hasn’t been honest with him I don’t think. That’s sad cause I feel like Mr. Stewart is foreclosing personal growth

and an appreciation of Brooksie Frumdreher III:

I can’t really take part in it, since it’s Lent, but Christopher Taylor has up a piece on our pal, Sy Hersh, that’s worth reading for the wonderful, bloody, stop-action evisceration. The wrap-up: Sy Hersh is riding on the reputation built almost forty years ago and is still respected despite a series of stories promising juicy details on all sorts of alleged evil and horror perpetrated by the US army

Melanie Phillips on the predictable reaction to Chas Freeman’s invocation of the machinations of the shadowy Zionist lobby in his ouster: Charles W Freeman’s outburst after he was prised out of his appointment as chairman of the National Intelligence Council, in which he blamed the ‘Israel lobby’ for his ousting, has provoked a number of others who appear to share his unhinged view of the World Jewish Conspiracy to crawl

H/t Gerry G. and also taken up by Stacy McCain, this article from the WSJ: It is simply wrong for commentators to continue to focus on President Barack Obama’s high levels of popularity, and to conclude that these are indicative of high levels of public confidence in the work of his administration. Indeed, a detailed look at recent survey data shows that the opposite is most likely true. The American

Via Darleen: Prosecutors are looking into why the new White House urban affairs director hasn’t paid an architect for house designs made two years ago—the same time he recommended the architect for a lucrative city contract. Adolfo Carrion, the former Bronx borough president, has said he would pay when he received the bill. But industry experts say the delay of payment is unusual. “Normally after a project is completed, we

Desi Driver sends this: Any larger-than-life figure is bound to have epic personality traits and prodigious talents; certainly Iowahawk fits that bill. He can drink you under the table, drive like James Taylor in “Two Lane Blacktop,” change a tire with the speed of a NASCAR pit crew on Jolt Cola. Yeah, I’m talkin’ ’bout Dave.