As reported in this morning’s New York Times: Asked to name a conservative model, [John McCain] skipped over the suggestions of three names typically associated with the conservative movement — Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush and Barry Goldwater, the founder of the modern-day conservative movement who occupied the Senate seat Mr. McCain holds today — to settle on Theodore Roosevelt. Mr. McCain has long admired Roosevelt, and in the interview he identified

If you’re going to watch the Miss Universe Pageant tomorrow, and you’re a fan of blondes, you’ll have to choose between Miss Netherlands and Miss Croatia. I’m not sure I vetted them all, but I did a reasonable amount of research. Because I’m a giver.

lingual. Change you can believe in! C’mon, man. Even evil genius retard George W. Bush is bilingual. Harvard must pretty much suck. Also: Crap. Kinda ruins the whole Tony Snow dying vibe, huh?

Bernie. Freddie. iPhone.

Reminds me a bit of my Romanian friend Mircea’s escape from Ceaucescu’s regime: After three days on the run, Ahmad Batebi picked his way down a rocky slope to the stream that marked Iran’s border with Iraq. His Kurdish guides, who had led Mr. Batebi, an Iranian dissident, through minefields and dodged nighttime gunfire from border guards, passed him to a new team of shadowy human smugglers. A photograph of

apparently there are now flying IUDs. You’ll put your eye out, kid. Also, I seem to remember from grade school that one should be on the lookout for blasting caps and child-eating refrigerators. Also, that dropping acid causes hot dogs to talk to one.

Here’s the follow-up to this morning’s post on “voluntary” food rationing in the UK, a kerfuffle about Pixar’s Wall-E and its depiction of the overweight: And the thing is, look. Obviously not everyone who is overweight is a food-crazed slob. Obviously some are victims of shitty genes or whatever. And, really, I don’t think Pixar was targeting the genetically obese. Researchers have suggested that those unlucky folks aren’t the way

The following comments are excerpted from one of the most influential “progressive” sites on the web, Daily Kos — routinely a pander node for leftwing politicians looking for money, support, or political affirmation and approval. The Huffington Post, home to limousine liberals who are rarely if ever as clever as they believe themselves to be, at least had the sense to close comments on their entry. Probably because they were

A New Hampshire woman who was struck by lightning this week was stunned to find that her voice had changed, and she was finding it tougher to get across the street in front of her home.  Reached for comment, Jessica LaFreinure commented bitterly, “It’s so totally not fair.  I was going to go to MIT to study to be one of those people who like, work on those things that

David Thompson has linked to a number of “Female Privilege Checklists” that seem to be percolating in response to “Male Privilege Checklists” generated by old school feministas like Wellesley College professor Peggy McIntosh (who framed her checklist as one of “white  privilege’).  For example, Thompson excerpts several from Brandon Berg, including these: If I marry, there is a very good chance that I will be given the option to quit my job