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August 2005

9 OTHER “standard background check” investigations the New York Times is actively pursuing on SCOTUS nominee John Roberts, Jr and his family

The father of Passion of the Christ filmmaker Mel Gibson, Hutton Gibson, famously claimed that the Holocaust was exaggerated—that many of the 6 million Jews supposedly exterminated by the Germans had in actuality simply fled Europe for countries like Australia and the US.  Has John Roberts seen the Passion of the Christ?  If so, how does he explain his vile anti-semitism?  If not, why has he forsaken his God? Conservatives,

Happy coincidences

**** Story: Al Qaeda Threatens Britain; see also, “House probes possible perjury”

Honestly? 

…The title has me a little concerned.  But only because I know firsthand what naughty girls Eleanor Clift and Susan Estridge can be after a few drinks.

Random IM conversation with Bill INDC, who it turns out wasn’t online at the time

[15:49] proteinwisdom: Hey Bill? [15:49] *** Error while sending IM: This user is currently not logged on [15:51] proteinwisdom: What if instead of saying, “I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the ending, the first and the last”… [15:51] *** Error while sending IM: This user is currently not logged on [15:53] proteinwisdom: The Lord said something like, “I am the bacon double-cheeseburger and the fries, the

a joke ripped completely out of its proper context and posted here to encourage confusion and / or knowing assent among a statistically insignificant number of readers

Q: Why did the master masonry worker cross the road? A: Because his apprentice inadvertantly wet-mortared his MWI Professional ¼” X ¼” Square Notch Margin Trowel 1/4S to the chicken. The stupid bastard. **** related.  Somehow.

Man without a country (or a conscience.  But that’s just nitpicking)

Tom Elia sends along the latest in George Galloway perfidy (by way of MEMRI and the Corner): George Galloway on Syrian TV July 31, 2005: Two of your beautiful daughters are in the hands of foreigners – Jerusalem and Baghdad. The foreigners are doing to your daughters as they will. The daughters are crying for help, and the Arab world is silent. And some of them are collaborating with the

Reprise of “The pinball post,” with a minor correction (from the protein wisdom conceptual series)

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I like them on my pizza, or with a nice Ranch dipping sauce

From the Guardian, “Headache sufferers flout new drug law”: Patients who suffer from cluster headaches – a debilitating medical condition for which there is no cure – are flouting the government’s ban on magic mushrooms because they say the psychedelic fungi are the only thing to relieve the pain of their attacks. In the past two years scores of British cluster headache sufferers have turned to magic mushrooms, prompted by

Days of Wine and Roses and Pissed off Tories

From The Scotsman: Muslims who resent the British way of life should leave the UK, regardless of whether they are citizens or not, a senior Conservative said last night in comments that have heightened already tense community relations. Gerald Howarth, the shadow defence minister, last night told The Scotsman that extremist Muslims who see the Iraq war as a conflict against Islam should be considered as treacherous as Soviet sympathisers

If Rethuglicans Wrote Union Solidarity Songs, 1: “Joe Hill”

I dreamed I saw Joe Hill last night, alive as you and me. Says I “But Joe, you’re ten years dead” “I never died” said he, So I picked up a piece of rebar and beat him savagely, then I stole the filthy Commie’s butter sandwich.