”…MY mustache can bench 240.  Can Bolton’s mustache bench 240?  Can it curl 150 in reps of 10?  I bet not.  I bet it doesn’t even lift.  The pussy…”

From the New York Times: Topping the federal government’s list of costs related to Hurricane Katrina is the $568 million in contracts for debris removal landed by a Florida company with ties to Mississippi’s Republican governor. Near the bottom is an $89.95 bill for a pair of brown steel-toe shoes bought by an Environmental Protection Agency worker in Baton Rouge, La. The first detailed tally of commitments from federal agencies

First, this, from AP TV writer David Bauder: Much like a youthful Dan Rather made a name for himself with stellar coverage of a Gulf Coast hurricane two generations ago, Fox News Channel’s Shepard Smith opened some eyes with his work in the face of a powerful and blustery force. And we’re not just talking about Hurricane Hannity. Smith’s passionate reportage from a New Orleans highway overpass clogged with the

The Weekly Standard’s Terry Eastland does a nice job teasing out the impasse between judicial philosophies that informed the Senate Judiary Committee hearings on the nomination of John Roberts for Chief Justice. On the final day of the Roberts hearings, Sen. Richard J. Durbin of Illinois tried one last time: “If you’ve made one point many times over . . . the course of the last three days,” he told

Crash (2004) Directed by Paul Haggis.  Stars Don Cheadle, Ryan Phillipe, Matt Dillon, Sandra Bullock, Karina Arroyave, Keith David, Tony Danza, Ludacris, Larenz Tate, Michael Peña, Terrence Howard, and Brendan Fraser. Film reviews in five words or less: Man, white people just suck!

In a Kos comments thread on her speech today in DC, Cindy Sheehan shows up to complain that she’s being pushed out of the news cycle by Hurricane Rita coverage: rita (4.00 / 2) i am watching cnn and it is 100 percent rita…even though it is a little wind and a little rain…it is bad, but there are other things going on in this country today…and in the world!!!!

Relying on International ANSWER’s numbers, Reuters is reporting that the anti-war protests today in DC drew 100K people, though an aerial photograph seems to shows fewer people [see caption]. Then there’s this: The 2005 National Book Festival, organized and sponsored by the Library of Congress and hosted by first lady Laura Bush, will be held on Saturday, Sept. 24, 2005, on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., between 7th and

From the AP’s Jennifer Kerr, “Anti-War Protesters March in Washington:  Thousands of Anti-War Demonstrators March in Washington, London; Rallies Planned in L.A., Rome”: Opponents of the war in Iraq rallied by the thousands Saturday to demand the return of U.S. troops, staging a day of protest, song and remembrance of the dead in marches through Washington and other American and European cities. More than 2,000 people gathered on the Ellipse

To Jeremy Olson for Hitchcock’s The Wrong Man—considered by many to be Hitch’s most “realistic” film (based on a true story).  I watched it the other night and quite enjoyed it.  A strange departure for Hitchcock, and but for the exception of a few signature touches could very well have been a Kazan film. Thanks also to David Hutchins for The End and Quadrophenia. Believe it or not, I’d never