Rocky: Again? DEFINITELY NSFW–unless you work for a French company. Then you’re good. [Facebook link] TORTURE ADVISORY (h/t Joe, in comments) Fighting negative perceptions of Muslims, one beheading at a time. Yeah Yeah Yeah Song

with anyone else but Warren Bonesteel. If you have a yen to read a very hard bitchslap administered by Jeff, here’s your chance. Related: There’s still time to vote

Intelligence: A senior U.S. lawmaker said Thursday that unmanned CIA Predator aircraft operating in Pakistan are flown from an airbase inside that country, a revelation likely to embarrass the Pakistani government and complicate its counterterrorism collaboration with the United States. The disclosure by Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), the chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, marked the first time a U.S. official had publicly commented on where the Predator aircraft patrolling

John Nolte holds forth on the movie, The Reader. Oh, what a night! Oh, what a night. Late December back in ’43. Quite the Nazi death camp time for me, ‘Cause I remember what a night. Oh, what a night. You know, I didn’t even know their names, But they were slated to go up in flames. Dirty semites. What a night. Oh, I. I got a funny feeling when

a Serr8d joint How about a little community organizing? As I’ve opined before, we ought to all go march in pig masks. Civility NOW!!!

Fifty people died when a Continental Connection airplane crashed into a house in Clarence Center shortly after 10:15 p.m. Thursday, setting off a huge fire that could be seen miles away. The dead included 44 passengers, five crew members and a person on the ground. Earlier reports listed only four crew members. A nurse at Erie County Medical Center said the hospital’s second shift had been told to stay late

Do you think parsnip is a mendoucheous felcher? 1) Agree strongly 2) Mostly agree 3) Meh 4) Mostly disagree 5) Disagree strongly One vote for each IP address every 24 hours. Voting ends Sunday at midnight EST.

Believed abducted: Investigators were treating the disappearance of a 5-year-old north Florida girl as an abduction and continued searching for the child Thursday. The Putnam County Sheriff’s Office said investigators assume Haleigh Cummings was abducted because house-to-house searches of the neighborhood Wednesday found no evidence that she wandered away. Haleigh’s father Ronald Cummings also said he didn’t believe she had left their home in the middle of the night.

I wrote about it earlier today, and urthshu brought the funny with this: “BRAAAIIIINS!!!” “I do assure you, Sir, that I have no pretension whatever to that kind of elegance which consists in tormenting a zombie. I would rather be paid the compliment of being believed sincere. I thank you again and again for the honour you have done me in your proposals, but to accept them is absolutely impossible.

As a wine aficionado, I’m always looking for entertaining ways to educate the public about various aspects of winemaking.   Here is a little-known step in the winemaking process.  As always, this is for educational purposes only.  Please, no wagering.  It’s also an opportunity for me to write the words “farging corksoakers” at a major blog.