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

…please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please…* **** update (5:15 PM EST):  thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you…

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

From the Washington Post and the AP: Cheney said yesterday that the administration has no plans to close the detention facility at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, as some prominent Democrats have recommended, but other Republicans said that reports of mistreatment of prisoners there have made the prison a growing global liability. Additional information about aggressive interrogation tactics at Guantánamo surfaced yesterday, which could heighten the debate. In remarks to be broadcast

Stripes? I thought Candy stole every scene he was in, frankly. Yep. Now there was a MAN, am I right? **** cross-posted at sda, where the love just keeps on a-flowin’!

28.  Why, all the swell new friends you meet!