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June 1, 2005

The third set of 20 films that if you haven’t seen you should see immediately or risk having protein wisdom sneer at you like certain embarrassingly snobby blue state gourmands sneer at salt water taffy and chili-cheese fries

1980s, group 3 The Elephant Man (1980) Absence of Malice (1981) An American Werewolf in London (1981) Beau-père (1981) Blow Out (1981) Body Heat (1981) Das Boot (1981) Chariots of Fire (1981) The Chosen (1981) Christiane F (1981) Clash of the Titans (1981) Cutter’s Way (1981) Endless Love (1981) The Entity (1981) Escape from New York (1981) The Evil Dead (1981) Excalibur (1981) Eye of the Needle (1981) Fort Apache

Random Cat Blogger thought, Wednesday, June 1, 3:06 PM EST

…you wanna know who is a real moderate? Mr. Whiskers.  Mr. Whiskers is a real moderate.  Hell, that cat’d probably even befriend a field mouse if he thought it’d get him a few extra strokes and a dose of ‘nip. And that’s just, y’know…so admirable…

A self-styled South Park conservative response to self-styled “radical moderate” preening

Christie Todd Whitman, the former Republican governor of New Jersey and a former administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, uses the Washington Post‘s letters page to patiently explain to those of us who believe that all of the President’s judicial nominees should receive up or down votes why we’re too dumb to realize what’s in our best political interests.  Which, thank the heavens that Christie’s ideological proxies in the US