Distinguished “progressive” economist and anti-war ideologue Max Sawicky, in an effort to airbrush Christopher Dodd’s recent Byrd-inspired brainfart completely out of existence, puts on the rhetorical high hat and waves his hand dismissively: The effort to cook up an analogy between Chris Dodd/Robert Byrd and Trent Lott/Strom Thurmond needs a few sentences. Robert Byrd is a great senator. His hands shake, but he is still sharp. Strom Thurmond was a

In between swearing off bratwurst and cursing Falco and Nena, remember: John Kerry believes this is how to fight Islamic terrorism. Elsewhere: The Al Qaeda braintrust snickers and enjoys a snack of sweet tea and sesame candy.

Whatever. Doesn’t make the Loch Ness Monster any less real. What, she’s a prehistoric giant platypus, kept alive by very cold, very deep water for, like, eons. Everybody knows that. Asshole.

Sweet! No way my wife can say no to an XBox now. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: Beth Israel Medical Center laparoscopic surgery studies freakin’ rule!

“[…] As for education, Kennedy said Bush reneged on promises of adequate funding to carry out accountability provisions in the No Child Left Behind law passed with Kennedy’s help in 2001. The current Bush budget “leaves over 4.6 million children behind” by excluding funding to cover their needs, he said” — Washington Post report on Ted Kennedy’s Brookings Institute speech, April 5. …from Reason: An audit of a New Jersey

Don’t click here. Don’t ever click here. I warned you. Sweet dreams, fellas.

…3 months old, today, and already out of diapers. Which isn’t the blessing you’d think, because now he just kinda craps all over whatever he happens to be sitting on.