Marc Weisblott sent along this little gem on the “dark side” of Lawrence Welk (courtesy The Seattle Weekly). Interesting stuff — although it bears repeating that you haven’t even come close to a “dark side” until you’ve attended a few of Bobby Vinton’s “Swingers Only” bashes. All that blue velvet you get used to pretty quickly; but witnessing the cast of “Heehaw” frolicking nude on pommel horses…well, you never really

Marc Weisblott sent along this little gem on the “dark side” of Lawrence Welk (courtesy The Seattle Weekly). Interesting stuff — although it bears repeating that you haven’t even come close to a “dark side” until you’ve attended a few of Bobby Vinton’s “Swingers Only” bashes. All that blue velvet you get used to pretty quickly; but witnessing the cast of “Heehaw” frolicking nude on pommel horses…well, you never really

The original Not Bad Dude, Brian Linse (always game for a gun debate), concludes a recent post on the so-called “gun show loophole” with this rather remarkable statement: “pretending that there is no such thing as a gun show loophole diminishes the credibility of those of us who want our gun rights made stronger.” Implicit in this challenge are the dual charges that 1) there is in fact something called

“A judge has denied Zacarias Moussaoui access to airline security plans, citing a risk that the accused Sept. 11 conspirator could contact future hijackers despite his strict confinement,” The Salt Lake Tribune reports. The judge likewise denied Moussaoui access to automatic rifles and a stash of weapon’s grade plutonium. I’ll ask again: Why is this guy not being held by the military?

I’m beginning to find headlines like this (from the Hindustan Times, but it may as well have come from the New York Times) just plain humorous: “Palestinian official rejects Powell’s ‘provisional state’“: Palestinian chief negotiator Saeb Erekat dismissed on Thursday remarks by US Secretary of State Colin Powell in support of a ‘provisional’ Palestinian state. Powell ‘should concentrate on the real thing: ending the Israeli occupation,’ Erekat said. Powell advanced

I’m beginning to find headlines like this (from the Hindustan Times, but it may as well have come from the New York Times) just plain humorous: “Palestinian official rejects Powell’s ‘provisional state’“: Palestinian chief negotiator Saeb Erekat dismissed on Thursday remarks by US Secretary of State Colin Powell in support of a ‘provisional’ Palestinian state. Powell ‘should concentrate on the real thing: ending the Israeli occupation,’ Erekat said. Powell advanced

Kloognome’s Robert Crawford’s saw the same FOXNews report I did, and asks the same questions I asked (well, shouted at the teevee and threw a handful of pastachios at Brit Hume, in my case). Anyway, here’s the gist: Some in the State Government of New York, according to the FOX report, are calling for searches of all Yemenis anywhere — this after a “recent raid on an apartment where a