As the nation arrives, for the first time since 1825, at the end of consecutive eight-year presidencies, a summing up of the second of them must begin with this fact: Not since Abraham Lincoln’s has an administration been so defined by a single subject as George W. Bush’s has been by the Iraq War, which the country now thinks was improvidently begun and incompetently conducted. Historical judgments are, however, subject

David Weisman has the scoop about how the Obama (PBUH) declaration of emergency eggnoguration is SO NOT four times more expensive than the Bush one that the MSM got all in a tizzy about. Just how much they cost relative to one another, Weisman doesn’t say, because it’s apples and orangutans, my friends. So don’t expect anyone to do any hard digging, as the whole thing is incommensurate.

Your self-pleasuring is killing off orangutans! Geez, they look just like Treacher.

As some of you may know, one of our cats was hit by a car and killed over the hols. The ground is frozen too hard to bury her properly, so this evening we are building a bonfire (including the Christmas tree) and cremating the poor wee bobbie. Suzie was our owl-headed cat, the most independent of the three, and a wonderful mouser who also brought many gifts of small

It’s an O. Henry story about an Illinois school bureaucrat who created a lucrative position in the district and had it bestowed upon . . . himself. I love it when people pull themselves up by their bootstraps: Illinois is well known for far exceeding other states where it concerns lucrative salaries for administrators and top teachers, too. As Bill Zettler of Champion News reports, there is no recession in

Go over to the Pub to enjoy dicentra handing David Weisman his . . . head.

Everyone will have their own–the one that jumps into my head is that jackass chasing Malkin around and threatening her. Since I don’t have anything else to offer up at the moment, please share yours in the comments. That’s not entirely true, but I didn’t want to go off about how absurd the notion of a new declaration of independence coming from nanny-state Obama is. Because it’s Saturday Night. People

by yon pure crystal fountain, and upon it I will pile all the flowers of the mountain: Will you go, lassie, go? One of my favorite tunes is the Scottish “Wild Mountain Thyme.” I know it principally from The Byrds’ version (performed creditably here), and the a capella version by Celtic Quest. Some versions, such as the latter, give it an almost villanelle structure, which is most hypnotic. If you’ve

Joe Conason, last seen threatening anyone who said that Al Franken was trying to steal the Minnesota senatorial election with a libel lawsuit in the UK, explains the real reason that Holder suggested Clinton pardon Marc Rich, and it turns out that the Jooooos apparently made a Rich pardon a precondition for peace talks with the PLO: Meanwhile the fugitive financier, as he is still known, has never returned from

Just let the man eat his waffle! As his predecessor, President Bush, said his final goodbyes to America on national television, President-elect Barack Obama and his wife Michelle dined at the DC restaurant, Equinox Thursday night. CBS News’ Maria Gavrilovic, who waited outside the restaurant, reports that there is no indication whether or not Mr. Obama was watching President Bush’s farewell remarks. The President-elect departed the Blair house, located right