What’s wrong with this picture? Proggs are distressed to find that Lieberman holds on to his committee chairmanship, but seem to have no problem with Ways and Means Chairman Rangel’s ever-ramifying tax troubles. Helen Jones-Kelley gets a two-month vacation with only one paid for abusing her authority to dig into JTP’s government records–will receive high-fives when she returns–whereas employees of a private company are rightly cashiered when they view The

Posting will be intermittent (and likely scant) through Thanksgiving. My wife is leaving on a business trip again tomorrow, so I’m going to use the next few days to get the house ready for Thursday, and to get the rest of the Xmas shopping out of the way. Guest posters are welcome to fill in. And as always, there’s plenty of good stuff over at the Pub.

From “Tongaroo” again: Dood…if you’re so certain you got me pegged with your mad googling skills, come out here and show me how big a man you are…or are you afraid? You’re nothing but a pussy pseudo-intellectual, who thinks since a bunch of mouthbreathing morons worship your cock-slapping antics, that you actually have something of worth to contribute. Pfffffft. To which I reply, is there anything more sad than having

CNN: Verizon Wireless has fired employees connected to a breach of records from a cell phone used by President-elect Barack Obama this year, a Verizon source said Friday. The source would not say how many people were terminated but said “we now consider this matter closed.” Verizon reported the breach Thursday, and Obama spokesman Robert Gibbs said the transition team had been notified Wednesday. Gibbs said the president-elect no longer

Now available in paperback, as well as mass transit-festooned performative.

Jules Crittenden: Hard Times for Lefty Peaceniks. Oh. And buy books. Before, like, Sarah Palin burns them all.

From the AP, “Wash. regulators ask: Can blogging be lobbying?” Blogger beware? State regulators are wondering whether online political activism amounts to lobbying, which could force Web-based activists to file public reports detailing their finances. In a collision of 21st century media and 1970s political reforms, the inquiry hints at a showdown over press freedoms for bloggers, whose self-published journals can shift between news reporting, opinion writing, political organizing and

Jules Crittenden argues that PE Obama owes a debt of gratitude to George Bush — and that Obama would be wise to recognize what good Bush has done and incorporate it into his own administration’s policies. From “A Time for Thanksgiving,” the Weekly Standard: In foreign policy, possibly embarrassed by the eagerness with which the world’s most vile regimes have welcomed his election, Obama is backing off his many promises

“The View’s” Joy Behar — who once became enraged at a guest scientist whose job it was, for one particular segment, to look for germs in the lady’s personal bathrooms and found fecal matter in Behar’s toothbrush (true story) — puts on her old public school teacher persona and talks her some sophomoric shit about “demented” home schooled children. — Which, I guess if you’re brushing your teeth with it,

“And the coloured girls go / Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo [&tc.]”