From MSNBC: In a victory for Michael Schiavo, a coroner who performed an autopsy on Terri Schiavo reported Wednesday that she suffered from an irreversible brain injury and would not have recovered as her parents insisted was possible. It also found no evidence that she was strangled or otherwise abused. “Her brain was profoundly atrophied,” Jon Thogmartin, medical examiner for Florida’s Pinellas-Pasco County, told a press conference. “There was massive

During a dinner party in Belgium, he let slip that he “really digs the rush” he gets from “ripping off bloated multinationalist bureaucracies that adminster aid for countries ruled by murderous tyrants with sweet-ass mustaches.” Recently purchased a 60-foot yacht he christened, My Cut of the Embezzlement Booty His Rolex bears the inscription, “Plenty more where this came from, Big Guy,” and is signed, “your pal, Saddam” A recent UN

I think, therefore I thought.  Now, who wants pizza…?

It’s like I’m a submarine who’s been confronted by a fish, and the fish just rubs his fish chin and puffs on his fish pipe and then assures me in no uncertain terms that I am not, in fact, submerged under water.  That’s how I feel just now. I hope I can find a parking spot outside of Best Buy large enough to accomodate a U-boat.

I’ve spent my morning arguing (to no great effect) with a person who claims to be a professor of logic. The topic, ostensibly, is the Jackson case, and the area of discussion has to do with what constitutes a valid conviction.  Moreso, though, we’ve been arguing about epistemology.  And I must say, I am literally stunned by the discourse.  According to this learned Canadian professor (who posts under the initials

Be very afraid.

Congrats, Michelle! Many happy returns! **** (original ”protein wisdom welcomes Michelle to the blogosphere” post here)

…Suggesting (to me, at least) that it is all but impossible to convict a celebrity in a serious, high profile criminal case in the US. The worst part in all of this?  The accuser’s life is over.  That, and we’ll be forced to listen to a bunch of preening, self-righteous defense attorneys lecture us about how justice was done here, and how the evil little cancer boy and his crazy

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The reddish-purple lump on Monty’s leg began to pulsate violently—the painful, subcutaneous buzzing auguring, in his mind, the advent of a new world order under which the wormy little super-nationalist parasites that were soon to spit forth from his pus-heavy carbuncle would rise up and make him a King among men; what the poor little Canadian bastard didn’t realize, however, was that all this really meant is that he is