In this short match against an opponent 50 pounds heavier, I break the leg scissors, pass the legs, feint like I’m going for the choke, and secure the cross face. Yield: tap! Discuss — particularly as it pertains to contemporary politics / theories of interpretation / the death and eventual resurrection of Anna Nicole / the overwrought prose of James Wolcott. …Or else, just savor it.

Righ’cheer:

The Center for Responsive Politics and seven other watchdog groups recently asked asked John McCain and Barack Obama to disclose more information to the public about their fundraising “bundlers” and their small donors.  McCain responded; Obama ignored them.  McCain also fares better overall on donor disclosure. At the Politico, Ben Smith notes: Obama’s bundler figures don’t include the bundlers raise for other committees connected to the campaign, which renders the disclosure pretty

It’s true that Jeff’s called it quits for a while before, and it’s also true that he’s come back [and it’s also true that he was away for 18 months, at one point. Just so you know].  In the latest case, the leftosphere apparently just can’t let bygones be bygones and let him go.  From these people we’ve learned some interesting things.  For example, Jeff’s retirement was a thinly-veiled invitation

If an alien asked me, “What is rock music,” and I had to play only one song to define it, it would be, “You shook me all night long,” by AC/DC.  YMMV, of course.

Camp McCain likes Barack Obama’s global celebrity so much that they have launched a new ad  juxtaposing footage of Obama’s massive Berlin rally last week with images of Britney Spears and Paris Hilton.  The ad calls him “the biggest celebrity in the world… but is he ready to lead?”  From there, the narrator hits Obama on offshore drilling and energy taxes. The tone of the reaction from the establishment media in today’s conference call apparently was skeptical

Chicago Sun-Times columnist Carol Marin writes about Barack Obama’s problem with women: A few hours after leaving the “Women for Obama” luncheon, I ran into Sarah, not her real name. I’ve known her for a few years. A single mom, she free-lances, working as many jobs as she can to support two growing boys. She dreams of a permanent gig with benefits, but it’s still just a dream. A 37-year-old

Incidentally, in the screen cap I cut off the rest of the comments attributed to Steve M — all from this same IP. So if his claim that he’s only commented here twice is true, then he has to deal with the fact that someone is running around the interwebs using his footprint to leave little smears of shit around other people’s comment sections. Also, just to answer his commenters

Over at Crooks and Liars, Nicole Belle deplores the slaying of Unitarians, of which she is one, due, apparently, to the pernicious influence of hatemongers such as O’Reilly, Hannity and Savage. I can’t recall her heartache at the slaying of Roman Catholic nuns in the wake of the cartoons controversy, but perhaps I simply don’t recall.  I do agree with her that the usher who took the blast and the

La Malkin posts today on The Brangelina-fication of the Obamas, a couple days after Karl did.