What is this, a minstrel show?  The armadillo will not dance for the Man. Period.

Merrick:  “I AM NOT AN ANIMAL!” Me: “Oh yeah?  What are you trying to say—that you hate black people?” Merrick:  “I AM A HUMAN BEING!” Me: “Uh huh.  Not really an apology, is it?  You twisted, lumpy, racist hater.”

On his “Morning in America” radio show a few days back, Bill Bennett—in the context of responding to a caller who’d suggested that making abortion illegal would create more workers 20 years hence—said: But I do know that it’s true that if you wanted to reduce crime, you could—if that were your sole purpose, you could abort every black baby in this country, and your crime rate would go down.

“‘The President wants Gonzales. That’s what is dragging this thing out. They’re sending out people to say he is conservative as if by telling us that enough we will say,“‘sure, he really is one of us.” That is not going to happen.’” Indeed.  I appreciate the President’s loyalty to his pal, but unless he’s thinking he’ll put Gonzales up as a sacrificial lamb he believes will be filibustered—and I doubt

me: “So, I’m thinking about giving my ex-girlfriend a call –” Guinness: “Bad idea.” me: “Yeah?” me: “…Eh, you’re probably right.  Maybe I’ll just make a sandwich instead.”

From ABC News: The United Nations has begun a worldwide drive to counter the threat of a global flu pandemic. The U.N.’s new avian flu czar, Dr. David Nabarro, will head up the drive to contain the disease and prepare for its possible jump to humans. The avian flu virus is spread by chickens, ducks and other birds and has been a problem in Southeast Asia for several years, killing

…the fact is, MY mustache was taking shrapnel in Tora Bora while Bolton’s was stateside eating shrimp cocktails and sipping Michelob Lights from a chilled Pilsner glass.  So don’t presume to lecture ME about ‘tough’!  I mean, my mustache has been in the SHIT, man…!

Among those who voted nay on Roberts are Bayh, Biden, Clinton, Kerry, and Obama—all candidates to pursue higher office, including nearly every ostensible 2008 Democratic Presidential candidate from the Senate (with Joe Lieberman the exception; though, as John Cole points out, he himself has “a better chance of being the ‘08 Democratic nominee than Joe Lieberman”). I’m really only surprised at the Clinton vote (Bayh completed his slide left when

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“Conservative” pundit Andrew Sullivan, on the military’s recently completed investigation into allegations that US soldiers provided snuff photos to a porn site in exchange for free access.  (The investigation found that no felony crime had been committed and that the relative anonymity of online transactions make pinpointing point of origin very difficult): Violation of the Geneva Conventions? Who cares? This is the Bush administration. The Geneva Conventions are a dead